‘Landscaping’ with Visual Cultures: Demarcations
This session considers landscape as a representational mode locked in tension with its own subject: the order of nature out of which it is composed. This tension appears in the aesthetics of Georg Simmel as a paradoxical encounter between part and whole. Landscape on the other hand, tied to a specific locality and a circumscribed perspective, always entails a break with this continuum. It detaches itself from the whole by tracing a line of demarcation where there would otherwise be none. “To conceive of a piece of ground and what is on it as a landscape, this means that one now conceives of a segment of nature itself as a separate unity […].” This dynamic is repeatedly discernible in contemporary aesthetic engagements with landscape, and we will unfold its implications among artworks.
This is a hybrid event:
In-person location: RHB Cinema at Goldsmiths, 8 Lewisham Way, London
Date: 15/09/2025 to 15/09/2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Organisation: Goldsmiths, University of London
Type: Hybrid
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, London, Greater London SE14 6NW, UK
Free Event: no booking required