Sharing the Field (conference): Art in the Landscape and Landscape Archaeology

Saturday, November 30, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PST)

London, United Kingdom 

A conference at UCL Institute of Archaeology on 30 November 2013 will bring together artists and archaeologists, with an open invitation to those from related disciplines, to consider the inter-relationships between site-specific art in the landscape and landscape archaeology. The conference will explore the value of artistic approaches to the interpretation of archaeological landscapes - from the deep past to the contemporary past - and conversely how the practice and results of landscape archaeology inform artistic approaches.
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We are pleased to invite proposals on contemporary landscape art and archaeology relating to recent or current projects. We are particularly interested in papers from the arts which relate to site-specific installations and/or performance in the landscape and those which can consider new sets of opportunities for artists and archaeologists to collaborate on landscape interpretation. We are also interested in papers which consider the public engagement value of outdoor events including public participation in sensory explorations of landscape.

Guiding topics include:

• Landscape and archaeological / artistic imagination.
• Disciplinary freedom and boundaries.
• Challenges to artistic approaches.
• The power of image or experience.
• Art, archaeology & destabilising the familiar.
• The creation & funding of collaborations.
• Artists, archaeologists and public engagement.

Please send proposals (up to 250 words) to Hilary Orange h.orange@ucl.ac.uk  and Red Earth contact@redearth.co.uk by 25th October 2013. Registration (free) on  http://sharingthefield.eventbrite.com/