Reading List: Summer School, Landscape (post) Conflict

We are living in a period of increasing instability and accelerating violence worldwide. Atrocity, invasion, genocide, mass-displacement – these are brutal realities for millions across a growing number of conflict zones. We are also witnessing the deployment of ever-more ruthless forms of mechanised violence, often against civilian populations. In the process, the limits of international law (and the notion of a Western ‘world order’) are being brutally exposed. The landscape is the locus of conflict and its legacies.

Is there capacity within the field of art to respond to the realities of such escalating conflict? What are the landscapes within which this violence has been enabled? What are the conditions that underpin it and what are the traces it leaves on the land in turn? How are our ideas of spatiality, sovereignty, borders, and boundaries – the components through which landscape is codified and constructed – informed by the military imagination?

This Summer School aims to provide a space for the exploration of these questions, bringing together an array of artistic and academic voices to inform an enquiry that necessitates thinking across a combination of scales – local and global, past and present, theoretical and practical.

Reading List

Material related to invited participants and organisations:

Bana Abu Zuluf, Patrick Bresnihan, and Rory Rowan, ‘Decolonising Palestine and Unsettling Environmental Justice’, Rundale, 2024

Heba Y. Amin, The General’s Stork, London: Sternberg Press, 2020

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987

Nuit Banai, Being a Border, Dublin: PVA Books, 2021

Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert, W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2018

Banu Bargu, ‘Another Necropolitics’, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 19, no.1, January, 2016

Asia Bazdyrieva, No Milk, No Love, e-flux Journal, Issue No. 127, May 2022

Asia Bazdyrieva, and Solvieg Suess, The Future Forecast, e-flux Architecture, February 2020

Sibel Bozdoğan and Aslıhan Demirtaş, ‘Book of Dams’, SALT Online: Modern Essays 5, Graft, May 25-August 26, 2012, SALT Galata

Patrick Bresnihan and Naomi Millner, All We Want is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements beyond Environmentalism, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, trans. William Weaver, NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1974

Ta-Nehisi Coates, ‘The Case for Reparations,’ The Atlantic, June 2014

Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002

Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. ‘Examining the Wreckage,’ Monthly Review, July 6, 2020

Nick Estes, ‘Freedom Is a Place: Long traditions of anti-colonial resistance in Turtle Island’, Versopolis Review, 23 March 2020

Forensic Architecture, (eds), Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014

Forensic Architecture, Index of Repression

Joan Fowler, ‘Faultlines: Art and the State’, IMMA|texts, vol. 1, 2023, pp. 68-86

Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman, Investigative Aesthetics, London: Verso, 2021

Maria Fusco, Who Does Not Envy with Us is Against Us, Llandysul: Broken Sleep Books, 2023

Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019

Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1995

Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums, London: Pluto Press, 2020

Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003

Gerry Kearns, ‘Governing vitalities and the security state’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Volume 32, September 2014, pp. 762-778

Mariame Kaba, ‘Summer Heat’, The New Inquiry, November 15, 2017

Hanna Kim, ‘Hidden Histories, Missing Monuments: Convict Leasing and Labor Project’s Call to Action’, Monument Lab, July 1, 2020

Declan Long, ‘You are neither Here nor There’, Paper Visual Art Journal, vol. 10, 2017.

Declan Long, Ghost-haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020

Daisy Hildyard, The Second Body, London: Fitzarraldo Editions, 2017

Yuk Hui, ‘One Hundred Years of Crisis’, e-flux Journal, Issue No. 108, April 2020

Jumana Manna, ‘Where Nature Ends and Settlements Begin’, e-flux Journal, Issue No. 113, November 2020

Achille Mbembe, ‘How to Develop a Planetary Consciousness’, NOEMA, January 11, 2022

Walter Mignolo, ‘The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism’, Public Culture, vol. 12, no. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 721–748

Oleksiky Radynski, ‘Is Data the New Gas?’, e-flux Journal, Issue No. 107, March 2020

Charles C. Scott, Seeing like a State, Yale: Yale University Press, 1999

Guy Woodward, ‘Fray Bentos in Riga: Michael Landy’s “Open for Business”’, IMMA/texts vol. 1, 2023, pp. 4-17

Rachel Woodward, Military Geographies, Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing, 2004

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Boston: Beacon Press, 2002

Chris Pearson, Peter Coates and Tim Cole (eds.), Militarized Landscapes: From Gettysburg to Salisbury Plain, London: Continuum, 2010

Susan Schuppli, ‘A Memorial in Exile in London’s Olympics: Orbits of Responsibility’, openDemocracy, July 2, 2012

Jonas Staal, ‘Assemblism’, e-flux Journal, Issue No. 80, March 2017

Staal, Jonas, ‘Comrades in Deep Future’, e-flux Journal, Issue No. 102, September 2019

Mick Wilson, ‘To Live the Coming Death’ in Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas (eds.), Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019, pp. 165-179

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, NY: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1938 - to read in tandem with Between the Acts, London: Hogarth Press, 1941

Eyal Weizman, ‘Are They Human?’ e-flux Architecture, October 2016