In Session 4, our second Keynote, Dr Louise Purbrick raised questions of activism, exploited peoples and landscapes, leading to the penultimate themes of the symposium ‘Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation’. In this week’s theme PEOPLE AND PLACE, our panel teases out questions of community, alternative voices, gender politics and experiences of landscape including embodiment and auto-ethnographic practices.

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

PEOPLE AND PLACE:

Dr Nicky Bird (The Glasgow School of Art), ‘Raging: Revisiting Raging Dyke Network’

Jordan Whitewood-Neal (MRes student, University of Brighton), ‘Epistemological Hinterlands: Non-Normative Embodiment and Sublime Perceptions of Landscape’

Dr Jo Vergunst (Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen), ‘Exploring landscape decision-making with the arts: agency, scale and temporality’

Respondent Dr Frances Robertson (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: ‘Blackhill Autoethnographic Study’, (2019), Jordan Whitewood-Neal. Photo by Simon Beames