Session 7: Landscape Transformation
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Humans have built cities, physical infrastructures, roads and railways and electricity grids. Through agriculture humans have changed the face of the Earth dramatically. Humans have also created artificial islands from sand, turned lakes into polders, valleys into lakes, diverted the courses of rivers, and through irrigation made lakes into deserts. In this panel we examine some of these ‘efforts’ at radical landscape transformation and their consequences, and will see the Earth from possibly surprising but all-to-real perspectives.
Jananne Al-Ani: 'Shadow Sites'
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
In the last five years Jananne Al-Ani has developed a portfolio of film and photographic works titled The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People, which explores the disappearance of the body in contested and highly charged landscapes by examining the development of film and photography in relation to the technology of flight.
Michael Welland: 'Shape-Shifting Landscapes'
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
The scale on which mankind has so profoundly changed the Earth’s surface and disrupted the ‘natural’ cycles of erosion and sedimentation is one of the least acknowledged symptoms of the Anthropocene – we are geological agents.