Material City: Planetary Relations with Professor Peg Rawes

Professor Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

This talk will present research for a forthcoming monograph, which examines site-specific ‘earthworks’ by artists Frank Bowling, Agnes Denes, Helen and Newton Harrison and Mary Miss. I discuss how these artistic poetics highlight structural inequalities that compose contemporary gendered, racial and urban social relations, especially with regards to vulnerable human and nonhuman environments. 

Material City

This seminar series poses the question: How might material culture studies contribute to an understanding of global environmental change? Taking the city as a site of encounter between geophysical changes rendered at a global scale, politics embodied in documents and standards, and the affective encounter with the intensive socio-materiality of urban life, this series aims to opens up a set of methodological, analytical and political questions about the place of material culture studies in the shadow of the anthropocene.  

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