Disgrifiad
According to author and essayist Barry Lopez, wolves primarily scent-mark not to warn off intruders but to establish ‘cognitive maps’ for the resident pack; they urinate in the landscape to find each other. Taking up this idea of orientation and belonging, my presentation considered the creative and political limits of pissing in nature as a form of anti-monumental land art. I focused on Helen Chadwick and Charlie Prodger, exploring their engagement with contested British landscapes marked by nationalism and climate crisis, from the coastal military range of Chadwick’s 'Viral Landscapes', 1989 to the borderlands of Berwick-Upon-Tweed in Prodger’s 'LHB', 2017.I explored pissing in nature as a contradictory gesture with pleasurable and violent associations, an action that reveals how gender and sexuality shapes the way we move through the landscape. By reading Chadwick and Prodger’s pissing in nature as a kind of scent-marking, I made a case for olfactory interpretations that resist the visual and permanent, revisiting longstanding tensions within land art between documentation and artwork, gallery and environment.
This presentation deployed an embodied approach, shaped by my experience living in rural West Wales. Moving between poetry and prose, it drew on conversations with Prodger and site writing at locations along the Pembrokeshire coast depicted in 'Viral Landscapes'.
| Cyfnod | 22 Hyd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Teitl y digwyddiad | Anti-Monumentality and the Afterlives of ‘Land Art’ in Britain |
| Math o ddigwyddiad | Cynhadledd |
| Lleoliad | Leeds, Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr a Gogledd IwerddonDangos ar fap |
| Graddau amlygrwydd | Rhyngwladol |