Context Lectures: SITE /OFF-SITE /NON-SITE (Nottingham)
Wednesday 11 April, 10 – 12.00
Djanogly Lecture Theatre, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Context Lectures: SITE /OFF-SITE /NON-SITE
Becky Beinart, David Bell and Mathew Trivett (Wasteland Twinning); Jennie Syson (Hinterland) and Emma Cocker (Urban Retreat / Manual for Marginal Places).
This contexts lecture explores three different projects that deal with specific marginal sites as their point of provocation. Drawing on the experiences of these projects, invited speakers interrogate the critical and creative potential of the wastleand or 'edgeland', addressing notions of liminality, classification and questions around the social, ecological and cultural value of the marginal landscape.
SUGGESTED READING
Ignasi de Solà-Morales, Terrain Vague <indexofpotential.net/uploads/1130/Terrain%20Vague%20low%20res..pdf>
Gil Doron … badlands, blank space, border vacuums, brown fields, conceptual Nevada, Dead Zones <www.field-journal.org/uploads/file/2007_Volume_1/g%20doron.pdf>
Doina Petrescu, The Indeterminate Mapping of the Common <www.field-journal.org/uploads/file/2007_Volume_1/d%20petrescu.pdf>
Following the Lecture Rebecca Beinart, David Bell and Mathew Trivett will make a presentation about Wasteland Twinning and open up their research to participation from Nottingham Trent University Fine Art students. If you would like more information and opportunities for participation come along to the meeting in meeting room BON 002 at 1pm, Wednesday 11 April.
