Friday 1st November 2024
14:30 – 17:30
The IAS Forum (G17), UCL

You are warmly invited to the next Wild Archaeologies session : historical inquiry and assembling the contemporary. The event will take the form of a workshop and conversation with JR Carpenter, Knut Ebeling and Ido Govrin.

Archaeology in this wider and ‘wilder’ use is related to gaps in the archive, subaltern and invisibilised histories which are unrecorded or suppressed. Elsewhere, it is deployed as a form of transhistorical intimacy, a form of criticism, a critical practice, and a material approach to the past to counter a concept of history as a merely documentary approach to the past. Provocatively, this wider proposition of wild archaeology makes use of archaeology broadly, as a disciplinary field, a philosophical intensity, an artistic form, and a historical method.

Rather than hosting a formal symposium on the subject of wild archaeologies, we are keen to create a space together for exchange that is generative and open, where participants bring their reflections (poetic, theoretical, personal, critical, wild and challenging) to the space in an equitable way. This interdisciplinary event has arranged for JR Carpenter (a poet and artist), Ido Govrin (a theorist and artist) and Knut Ebeling (a philosopher of the contemporary) to visit UCL for an afternoon of introductions to, and conversation with their work. A workshop lead by JR Carpenter on writing and time will follow. Think of the event as a jam session; bring your research ideas!

 This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided.

Feel free to advertise to colleagues, students and your networks. Due to the workshop this event will be in person only and numbers are limited. Please register through Eventbrite HERE.

Wild Archaeologies is hosted by Jason Katz (Bartlett School of Planning) and the Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network (Slade School of Fine Art and the Institute of Archaeology). The event is kindly supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies Octagon Grant. 

J. R. Carpenter works across performance, print, and digital media. The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. An Ocean of Static was highly commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. This is a Picture of Wind was one of The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020. http://luckysoap.com

Knut Ebeling is Professor of Media Theory and Aesthetics at Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin. He has published numerous works on contemporary theory, art and aesthetics, most recently: Sorge. Autotheorie der Trauer (2021).

Ido Govrin (b. 1976) is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar whose practice includes sound, installation, printmaking and text. Recent solo exhibitions include Philosophical Archeology Space 2009-2019 (2019).


RESOURCES

JR Carpenter
Knut Ebeling
Ido Govrin

LOCATION

The IAS Forum (G17) is located at ground level in the South Wing, and is fully accessible from the street. There is an accessible toilet at the entrance to the corridor.

Enter the UCL campus from Gower Street and head towards the top right-hand corner of the quad to enter the building. View on Google Maps or view a UCL campus map

Once inside the building, turn to the right and pass through some double doors. The South Wing corridor is then on your right.