In Session 1, our first Keynote Ingrid Pollard launched the symposium ‘Practicing Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation’, bringing her practice concerns on representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and materiality. This week’s theme for Session 2 is Wild Places, and our panel expands this theme to encompass contemporary art practice, peripheral territories, ideas of remoteness along with notions of the sublime, embodiment and materiality.

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

WILD SPACES:

Dr Elizabeth A. Hodson, (Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies, GSA), ‘The Posthuman Sublime: The Art Practice of Katie Paterson’

Dr Nalini Paul, (Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies and Design History and Theory, GSA), ‘Embodying Language in Wild Spaces: Place, Memory and Transformation’

Sam Nightingale (PhD Candidate, Goldsmiths), ‘Salt: a crystal image of time’

Respondent Justin Carter (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: ‘A Crystalline World’ (2018), Sam Nightingale, photographic salt print.