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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Clouded Title 2020/21
Conversations
an online reading and discussion group.
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These sessions were held on Zoom and a related online discussion space is hosted on Slack.
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​Email us to join.
In 2020 and 2021 Clouded Title continued its problematizing of the notion of ownership through interviews with people across disciplinary fields, as well as through an ongoing discussion and reading group.

This research aimed 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 upon 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 10 years of practice, we sent out a broad invitation to artists and audiences who had engaged with our space over time:  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
  • We met 6 times this year over Zoom.
  • Participants had access to an ongoing Slack site for discussion and sharing readings, resources, etc.
  • Four of the session themes drew on ongoing or current projects and themes at Street Road.
  • There were suggested readings for each meeting. A short reading with supplemental longer reads was provided.
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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VISITING
Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.
We can accommodate most times by appointment, given a little advance notice. 
Email us or phone to set up a visit.
And, stop by if you see a car outside!

HOURS — Street Road 
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February 15 – May 31, 2025
Fridays, 5-8pm
Saturdays, 11-3pm
and by appointment, in person or virtually. 

HOURS — Little Free Library 19330 (our 2nd site a few miles north)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.

NOTE: The LFL19330 will be closed on July 4th & 5th.

Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road here.
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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