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[ecrea] Space/Place/Culture seminar, Manchester Met, Thurs 12 Dec. 2013

Wed Dec 11 17:25:03 GMT 2013




Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar #2. All welcome.

Thursday 12th December, 5.15pm-7.00pm (approx end time)
Room 315, MMU Business School, All Saints Campus (access via the North Atrium lifts/stairs) Dr Tracey Potts, Department of Culture, Film and Media, The University of Nottingham
'The Matter Work of the Heidelberg Project'
Taking a lead from Alan Liu's exploration of the status of critical creativity in the post-industrial, information age, this paper will comprise a tour of Tyree Guyson's Heidelberg Project in Detroit. With its particular treatment of materials, artefacts, space and place not to mention its sustained engagement with the materiality of redundancy, Heidelberg offers, I will argue, a compelling example of what Liu determines as 'strong art', i.e. art that is capable of presenting steadfast resistance in the era of 'advanced creative destruction'. Above all, by making an explicit connection between people and things, the various assemblages of the Project can be seen to stand as material witnesses to the enforced obsolescence that forms the wake of capitalist dreams of progress and innovation.

About the Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar Programme:
The 'spatial turn' has opened up dynamic synergies -- and occasional tensions - between the work of cultural geographers and researchers working in a range of fields across the humanities. As Douglas Richardson explains, 'ideas, terminology, and concepts such as space, place, scale, landscape, geography, and mapping' now permeate interdisciplinary academic research as 'conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and core metaphors'. Saliently, Richardson -- Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers - also points out that such tropes have become increasingly prominent within public life as evidenced, in this country, by a collective preoccupation with edgelands, psychogeography, liminal spaces, cultural cartography and so on. Moreover, the proliferation of digital geographical technologies -- including Sat Navs and Google Earth - has revolutionised the practice of everyday life. Researchers at MMU have recognised the shared emphasis on geographic themes as a focus for both internal cross-disciplinary collaboration and as a means to engage wider publics with academic research; the Space/Place/Culture Public Seminar Programme is a forum where such research can be discussed, and is open to anyone.

Next seminar:

Thursday 16th January - Simon Faulkner (Art History, MMU)
The politics of here and there: Visual representations of spatial difference in Israel/Palestine

For further enquiries: (g.macdonald /at/ mmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(g.macdonald /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>
Travel info and a map of All Saints Campus: http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/travel/allsaints/

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Dr Gavin MacDonald | Senior Lecturer, New Media Theory | BA (Hons) Film & Media Studies | Manchester School of Art | Manchester Metropolitan University | Chatham Building | Cavendish St. | M15 6BR
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