Fractured Earth: towards an expanded imaging of landscape
Thinking landscape as being in eventful — violently eventful — persistent process, beyond the framings associated with image and landscape.
2016 PhD thesis and presentation (public performance-lecture and exhibition, University of Exeter/Porthmeor, St Ives)
This thesis brings feminist ontologies into a renewed dialogue with post-phenomenological landscape studies through development of a critical arts- foregrounds landscaping practices as performative; visual studies, similarly influenced by phenomenology, critiques the powerful fixings of representation; and current commentaries on art-geographies focus on questions of interdisciplinarity, rather than the potential for art practice-as-research to be generative of politically complex cultural geographies. Landscape, replete with complex power geometries and tension, both resists fixing and framing, and also becomes defined or imaged by these same operations. My goal in this thesis is to find a way of working, as an artist, with an understanding of landscape as being continually in eventful-and sometimes violently eventful-process, beyond conventional framings of image and landscape.
