HISTORIES is the third session of the symposium Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation, following on from last week’s theme of Wild Places. Our panel will expand on the ways art practice and historical research investigate this theme to address land as witness, oral histories, cultural perspectives shaped by politics and memory, through to issues of heritage, ecology and conservation.

The format of this event is that there are three 20 minute presentations, chaired by a respondent.

HISTORIES

Seán Laoide-Kemp (Masters by Research Student, IADT Dún Laoghaire), ‘Landscape as Witness: Aftermath Photography, Oral History, and Ethnography in Representing the Public Works Scheme of the Great Irish Famine’

Joe Crowdy (PhD Candidate, Oslo School of Architecture and Design), ‘Writing Rack Fen: 1583-1606 and 2019-20’

Dr Frances Robertson (Lecturer, GSA) ‘Alien Introductions: trees, memory and landscape history’

Respondent Michail Mersinis (GSA)

Read the speakers biographies here

Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation is a symposium organised by the Reading Landscape Research Group, formed by artist-academics from the School of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. The symposium will take place over six Fridays, from 6 Nov – 12 Dec 2020. The format of the Symposium includes two invited Keynote speakers – Ingrid Pollard and Dr Louise Purbrick – and four thematic sessions chaired by a respondent.

Image: Still from Writing Rack Fen, (2020), Joe Crowdy