Notícias

4.ª Conferência Aberta RDIT, 6.ª Edição do ciclo | 'CARTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION AND ARTISTIC COLLAGE AS MODE OF CRITIQUE', com Claire Reddleman

12 de maio de 2025, às 18h00 | Lugar do Desenho - Fundação Júlio Resende, Gondomar

TRANSPORTE GRATUITO a partir da FBAUP (saída às 17h30)

A quarta conferência aberta RDIT, integrada na 6.ª edição do ciclo, é intitulada ‘CARTOGRAPHIC ABSTRACTION AND ARTISTIC COLLAGE AS MODE OF CRITIQUE: LAYLA CURTIS AND OTHER APPLIED EXAMPLES’ e será proferida por Claire Reddleman, Universidade de Manchester.

‘In this lecture, I will offer a reading of ‘The Thames’ by Layla Curtis, a contemporary work that uses cartographic collage to disrupt the ‘cartographic view from nowhere’. This signature viewpoint of cartographic imagery is a cartographic abstraction that is both extremely useful and a powerful abstraction that positions the viewer in a relationship of conceptual overview, connoting both knowledge and power. Through reading this artwork, I will connect it with the rubric of cartographic abstraction that is developed in my monograph Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with Maps. This way of thinking about abstraction sees it as part of a Marxian tradition of concrete abstraction, the process through which social and economic forms become ‘real’ and function in shared social reality, outside of thought. I will develop the critique of collage in this register by sharing artistic collage works that I have made.’ Claire Reddleman

Consulte a PROGRAMAÇÃO AQUI da 6.ª edição do Ciclo de Conferências Abertas, no âmbito da Unidade InovPed 'Representações, Desenhos e Imagens do Território' (RDIT) e do projeto de investigação DRAWinU.

Claire Reddleman is Lecturer in Digital Humanities (Contemporary Art and Digital Culture) at the University of Manchester, and previously taught digital humanities at King’s College London, working on digital cultural heritage, visual methods, mapping and contemporary art. Prior to this she carried out postdoctoral research as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Postcards from the bagne’ led by Dr Sophie Fuggle, using visual research methods to engage with the history of France’s penal colonies. This research looks at collage as a critical artistic method, as does Claire's PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her thesis is now available as a research monograph from Routledge titled 'Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with Maps'. Claire previously gained a MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, and a BA (Hons) in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Reading.