Description
Online lecture for the lecture series ‘Winter Wednesday Lectures’, Docomomo BelgiumThe lecture concerns the transformation of landscape through ideological gesture, to territory, and to interior. Particular focus is given to the North American hinterland, notions of territorial claim and possession that characterised the colonial period, the subsequent projections of Thomas Jefferson, the progressive disenfranchisement and obliteration of indigenous populations, and the dramatic progress of its colonisation. Representational means used to describe these territories are also examined as engines of desire and consequent domination. Finally, a series of typologies, of interiors and landscapes and ultimately interiors tending to the condition of landscape, are described as the unfortunate legacy of the American occupation of the vast continent.
| Period | 15 Nov 2023 |
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| Held at | Docomomo Belgium, Belgium |