Abstract
The Derwent River in Tasmania, has a twin river. Its namesake The River Derwent flows through the Lake District in Cumbria, England. The Derwent River in Tasmania was named and 'explored' by Cumbrian born John Hayes in June 1793, and flows from Lake St Clair to Storm Bay. This paper twines perspectives from geography, history and art practice that emerged from walking the two River Derwents, in Cumbria and Tasmania in 2014 and 2015, as research for a public art commission for Glenorchy Sculpture and Art Park. The paper will develop the notion of 'affictive cartographies' to connect the fields of geography, cartography, and art making with how we read and experience places, materially and emotionally. The paper will present 'affictive cartographies' of the two Derwent Rivers which transect generations of human and non-human activity of agriculture, industry and deep geological time.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The inaugural Land Dialogues Conference presents interdisciplinary scholarship by researchers working in dialogue with, within or about land |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | Land Dialogues Conference 2016 - Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Duration: 13 Apr 2016 → 15 Apr 2016 http://scci.csu.edu.au/landdialogues/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2016/03/Dialogues_Draft-1.pdf (conference program) |
Conference
| Conference | Land Dialogues Conference 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Wagga Wagga |
| Period | 13/04/16 → 15/04/16 |
| Other | The inaugural Land Dialogues Conference three days of presentations of interdisciplinary scholarship by researchers working in dialogue with, within or about land. The conference covers diverse and divergent approaches to the key thematic phrase ‘Land Dialogues’ and especially encourage interdisciplinary attitudes to place/space and human/non-human convergence discourses. |
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