week two: the (unofficial) countryside music: “noon hill wood” from landings by richard...
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Week Two: The (Unofficial) Countryside Music: “Noon Hill Wood” from Landings by Richard Skelton. Justin Hopper. Our resources: www.jackdawshivers.com www.justin-hopper.com Contact me: [email protected] @ oldweirdalbion (twitter) Twitter hashtag : # ReadingRuins. Today. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Week Two: The (Unofficial) CountrysideMusic: “Noon Hill Wood”
from Landings by Richard Skelton
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Justin Hopper
• Our resources:– www.jackdawshivers.com– www.justin-hopper.com
• Contact me:– [email protected]– @oldweirdalbion (twitter)– Twitter hashtag: #ReadingRuins
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Today
• Introductions and questions• Next week’s readings• Themes• Thoughts on the readings (and next week’s)• The Unofficial Countryside• Classroom discussion• Galleries
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Hadleigh Castle, 2013
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Next Week’s Readings
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Iain Sinclair on Whiteread, from Lights Out for the Territory, as excerpted in Brian Dillon’s book Ruins
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Rachel Lichtenstein, and excerpt of Sinclair, from Lichtenstein’s book, Rodinsky’s Room
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Laura Oldfield Ford, from Savage Messiah.
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Unofficial Countryside: Themes
• Two kinds of British landscape ruins:– Antiquarian – Edgelands
• Ruins mediate between ourselves and “time”• And between the human-made world and the
natural world
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Readings
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Readings
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The (Unofficial) Countryside
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British Antiquarian Ruins
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British Antiquarian Ruins
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“Last summer, I walked in a field near Avebury where two rough monoliths stand up, sixteen feet high, miraculously patterned with black and orange lichen, remnants of the avenue of
stones which led to the Great Circle. A mile away, a green pyramid casts a gigantic shadow. In the hedge, at hand, the white trumpet of a convolvulus turns from its spiral stem, following the
sun. In my art I would solve such an equation.”
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Edgelands
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On a Ruined Farm near the His Master’s Voice Gramophone Factory
- George Orwell, 1934.
As I stand at the lichened gateWith warring worlds on either hand –To left the black and budless trees,The empty sties, the barns that stand
Like tumbling skeletons – and to rightThe factory-towers, white and clearLike distant, glittering cities seenFrom a ship’s rail – as I stand here,
I feel, and with a sharper pang,My mortal sickness; how I giveMy heart to weak and stuffless ghosts,And with the living cannot live.
The acid smoke has soured the fields,And browned the few and windworn flowers;But there, where steel and concrete soarIn dizzy, geometric towers –
There, where the tapering cranes sweep round,And great wheels turn, and trains roar byLike strong, low-headed brutes of steel –There is my world, my home; yet why
So alien still? For I can neitherDwell in that world, nor turn againTo scythe and spade, but only loiterAmong the trees the smoke has slain.
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