Postgraduate research
Cultivation Field - Postgraduate Symposium, 28th September 2011.
The premise for this Symposium is that cultivation is leading to new art practices deserving of critical inquiry and articulation. Whether in the garden or allotment, the soup kitchen or the road, on wasteland or the tower block, or wherever there are cracks in the system, cultivation provokes questions about human being's relation to and encounter with the earth and its growth systems and operations. The purpose of this Symposium is to encourage discursive exchange and productive encounter between art practitioners and researchers whose work explores plant-based material, land use, growth, ecosystems, economy, taxonomy, environment, power and chaos in the field of cultivation.
Cultivation Field Symposium Programme (pdf download)
Location:
Cultivation Field Postgraduate Symposium
The Minghella Building
University of Reading
Whiteknights
RG6 6UR
Deadline for registration:
23rd September 2011.
To register for the Symposium please fill in the online form here.
Contact: cultivationfield@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Link to travel and map of Whiteknights Campus:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx
THIS EVENT IS FREE