april 8, 2021
The ground is a material register. It is an archive of climate events, tectonic action, erosive and sedimentary force in geologic time. It archives biotic presence and extinction. It serves as both witness and material testimony to human deeds and misdeeds that have occurred on very specific grounds (ground zeros) – often deemed hallowed. The ground holds the traces of past presences – memories of hands that worked it and the bodies buried within it. This conversation will feature these multifaceted considerations of the ground as material record.
MOderator: Shannon mattern
Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
SPEAKER: Ayana OMILADE FLEWELLEN
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
SPEAKER: Katherine Jenkins
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School and cofounder, Present Practice
SPEAKER: liz sevcenko
Director, Humanities Action Lab, Rutgers University School of Arts & Sciences-Newark
SPEAKER: Aurora tang
Program Manager, The Center for Land Use Interpretation; Independent Curator