Creative engagements with difficult places: remembering, imagining, reenacting

Talk by John Sutton as part of the "Place, Memory, and the Past " lecture organized by the Oslo University.

In this double-feature lecture, John Sutton and Michael Wheeler explore the importance of place for embodied cognition in literary and artistic contexts.

John Sutton will ask what cognitive theory can contribute to our understanding of possible modes of engagement with difficult places and historically burdened heritage. He will examine some specific artistic interventions which highlight tangled modes of remembering and feeling the past, including Lola Arias’s collaborative performance piece Minefield/ Campo Minado, in which Argentine and British veterans of the Malvinas/ Falklands war of 1982 enact extraordinarily powerful reimagined scenes, and recent projects by RAAAF, Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances, an Amsterdam-based studio integrating philosophy and architecture.

More info: https://www.hf.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/lce/news-and-events/events/talks/2023/sutton-wheeler-feb-23.html