Athique Winterbottom, Anushka and Lammin, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9752-9335 (2024) Landscape Encounters. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

Landscape Encounters is a participatory-creative-practice-action-research project, which explores situated and embodied ways of engaging with landscapes through sensing, movement and making. This exhibition shares the outcomes of the first Landscape Encounter – a residential workshop at Wilderness Wood, East Sussex – in the form of photographic and video documentation, sketches, written reflections, and sculptural objects made and worn by participants.

Landscapes emerge through entangled multi-species encounters – interactions between microscopic and macroscopic entities that are iterated across different spatial and temporal scales. Humans are critical agents in ecosystems and our cultures impact the environment profoundly. Yet these entanglements are so pervasive that they can be difficult to perceive, raising questions about what methods we can use to create shared models that will enable us to empathise with other beings we encounter in the landscape, and ultimately to reinstate a sustainable relationship with the ecosystems we operate within.

The project’s methodology, inspired by decolonial pedagogies, takes diverse lived experiences as a starting point for the co-production of knowledge. It is informed by Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt – the phenomenal world of an entity entailing both its perceptions of its surroundings and the effects it has on this environment. Participants reflect on the form of their own Umwelts as they move through and observe the landscape, and work together to imagine the Umwelts of other types of beings they encounter (animals, plants, fungi). They then experiment with altering their sensoria to experience inhabiting the landscape otherwise, creating bodily attachments using a selection of simple materials to amplify or occlude particular senses, or re-shape body parts to change how they affect/are affected by their surroundings. The practice engenders an experiential knowing-with, which attunes participants to the landscape’s diverse cultures and their place within them.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Uncontrolled Keywords:	landscape, embodiment, Umwelt, more-than-human, participatory creative practice action research
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Related URLs:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49901
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2025 12:58
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/49900

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