Grounded Symposium, University of Oslo
Institutt for musikkvitenskap, University of Oslo
Oct 28, 12:00 am–Oct 29, 5:00 pm
I will be participating in the ‘Grounded’ Symposium at the Institutt for musikkvitenskap, University of Oslo on 28-29 October. The symposium ‘explores garden-related notions of groundedness, soil, trails, reclamation, decomposition, and rewilding and considers such concepts’ relevance for critical approaches to the environmental humanities.’ I am thrilled to be presenting work on mining sketchbooks as well as considering minerality in relation to groundedness and itinerancy:
Abstract: Taking an early twentieth-century sketchbook of South African mines and botanical gardens as its starting point, this work-in-progress will explore the tensions between itinerancy and being grounded in the artistic and literary discourses of mining and minerality, particularly those of the British southern settler colonies. Prompted to follow the literary form of the mining sketchbook and scrapbook, the paper will sketch, cut, paste and explore various sites of itinerancy and groundedness from the auriferous and diamondiferous to the garden abecedarium of colonialism.
You can read more about the interdisciplinary and dynamic programme by following the link below.
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