Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016 'Borrowed Time' Reading Group CANCELLED

Please note this event has been cancelled. Texts are still available as background reading to our current exhibition, please email ainslie@cca-glasgow.com to request a copy

This reading group will explore four short texts provided by Karen Kramer, whose work The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land is part of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016 exhibition, currently on display in CCA. The texts are available from CCA - please email ainslie@cca-glasgow.com to request a copy.

Karen Kramer has chosen excerpts from four texts to provide a theoretical context for her work The Eye That Articulates Belongs on Land. These can be very loosely divided into two thematic sets, though participants should try to think of them as prompts to conversation.

Beyond the Line by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha was written in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the city of New Orleans. In it, landscape architects Mathur and Da Cunha propose compelling new perspectives on the border between a body of water and dry land, taking into account the geological, structural and socio-economic conditions that threw post-Katrina New Orleans into such turmoil.

In Sensing Grounds: Mangroves, Unauthentic Belonging, Extra-territoriality Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl propose the unique tropical ecology of the mangrove - a hybrid territory, part land, part sea – as a model for a densely networked interstitial zone; a space of rich, open-ended social metaphors.

Where the above readings deal with the interstices of the land – sea matrix, the remaining two focus on events in broad spatial and temporal registers. Emerging from the object oriented school of philosophy, Timothy Morton’s hypothesis of the hyperobject – as put forward in Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Psychology after the End of the World – reframes ecology in terms of objects too widely distributed in time and space to be apprehended by the senses alone.

In conversation with Bertrand Richard Paul Virillio, often cited as the pre-eminent philosopher of speed, discusses his interest in the event, a military action, a political or ecological disaster in terms of the speed at which it becomes a global incident.

Reading List

Beyond the Line
by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha
(New Orleans Under Reconstruction: The Crisis of Planning pg 470-473)

Sensing Grounds: Mangroves, Unauthenitc Belonging, Extra-Territoriality
by Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl
(Networks: Whitechapel pg 135-137)

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
by Timonthy Morton
(Introduction chapter: A Quake in Being)

The Administration of Fear
by Paul Virilio, Bertrand Richard
(pg 27-39 and 69- 83)

The exhibition 'Borrowed Time' will open late from 6-6.30pm for the opportunity to view the films before discussing the texts. It is not required of participants to read the texts in their entirety ahead of the reading group. This will be a group discussion of the material rather than a lecture or artist talk.