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Clouded Title continues its problematizing of the notion of ownership through interviews with people across disciplinary fields, as well as through an ongoing discussion and reading group which is open to anyone to join.
This research aims to tease out how different notions of ‘ownership’ are conceptualised and narrated, including how storied histories of ownership are performed within current understandings of who belongs to a community and how this bears on who is visible within the construction of public and political spaces. The aim is to scope out various discussions of the spatial/material 'ownerships' (land/air/water/people/non-human beings etc.) and (il)legal frameworks that instantiate such ownerships (appropriation of land, use of human and animal bodies) as 'property.' Clouded Title Conversations
In recognition of our community’s deep input to Street Road over our 10 years of practice, we are pleased to invite you to take part in these discussions, which draw on our past projects and on our community's perspectives to continue our ongoing investigations of ownership. We foreground the aesthetics and metaphoric qualities of land ownership, taking in things like the real estate industry, mapmaking, and local histories, following Street Road's focus on visual culture and practice-led art, and the ways those intersect with our social and political landscapes. DETAILS
ZOOM SESSIONS
Session 1 - Ownership and aesthetics February 20, 2021, 2-3:30pm Eastern Suggested reading: ‘Our violent commons’, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay in Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism,Verso 2019 Session 2 - Land, ecologies, and climate change April 17, 2021, 2-3:30pm Eastern In connection with the exhibition, Castor, by Matthew Shackelford Suggested reading: Elizabeth Kolbert's Under a white sky: the nature of the future Suggested listening: Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice?’ (Feb 9th, 2021), a 1-hr. podcast interview by Ezra Klein speaking with Kolbert (a New Yorker environmental journalist) on her new book, and the debates around ‘dimming the sun’, CRISPR gene technology, and the possibility that alien life has visited our solar system. Secondary reading: the reading list for Castor, compiled by M. Shackelford, focused on environmental urgencies in our area, Chester County, Pennsylvania. June 19, 2021, 2-3:30pm Eastern Session 3 - Borders and mappings Guest speaker Kaori Homma will talk about her project Homma Meridian, an ongoing installation at Street Road and elsewhere, in connection to Street Road's forthcoming publication about the project. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83829934121 Suggested reading:
November 20, 2021, 2-3:30pm Eastern NOTE change in date (formerly October 16) Session 5 - The Christiana Resistance In connection with Walking Forward, Looking Back by artist Carol Maurer, Street Road 2018. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83829934121 Suggested Readings/Information:
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