Exploring triangulation: Archaeology, Art and a third space of imagining and speculation

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Exploring triangulation: Archaeology, Art and a third space of imagining and speculation

Brind, Susan, Brownrigg, Jenny, Hale, Alex, Harold, Jim, Jorgensen, Birthe and Wall, Gina (2019) Exploring triangulation: Archaeology, Art and a third space of imagining and speculation. In: CHAT Method (Contemporary & Historical Archaeology in Theory), 2019, 1-3 November 2019, Museum of London, Docklands.

Graffiti, North Barn, Scalan Mill ...

Plane table survey, Garnethill, G ...

Creators/Authors:

Brind, Susan, Brownrigg, Jenny, Hale, Alex, Harold, Jim, Jorgensen, Birthe and Wall, Gina

Abstract:

What role should imaginary and speculative strategies play within our methodologies?

This paper aims to explore intersections posed through site writing (Rendell 2010), performativity (Cull 2014, Bell 1999) and archaeologies of the contemporary past (Lucas and Cuchli 2001, Graves Brown et al 2013, Russell and Cochrane 2014). Taking two examples – Scalan, a ruined farm in rural Moray and Garnethill public park, in inner city Glasgow – we will explore an interdisciplinary reading of both sites. The paper will consider and discuss how sharing methods of interpretative plane table survey, time-lapse video, performativity, photography and site writing can open up this third space between contrasting sites and disciplines, approaches and imagined temporalities. The artist/archaeologists who came together to explore intersections of practices, ideas of seeing and being, and methods of encounter, have woven an assemblage of time, impermanence, lines and contradictions, and are sill exploring how a third, speculative space comes into being.

Official URL:

https://www.mola.org.uk/chatmethod-chat-conference-2019#:~:text=Hosted%20by%20MOLA%2C%20this%20year's,and%20how%20we%20do%20it.

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Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)

Additional Information:

This research that informs this conference paper was undertaken during fieldwork by the authors at Scalan Mill, Moray, Scotland, in June 2018 and at Garnethill in October and November 2018. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, the project aims to respond to the following questions: What are the benefits to creative practice of situating Scalan Mills within the expanded field of writing? How might our understanding of landscape be enriched by reading this place as a site of inscription which correlates with the archaeological concept of palimpsest? How might this rendering of place respond to an interdisciplinary methodology which deploys archaeological fieldwork, site writing and practice-as-writing (photography, performance, spatial practice) to engage with the landscape as archive? The research questions are interrogated by an interdisciplinary methodology which includes: • Visual and data mining of the existing archaeological documentation of ‘field graffiti’ • Archaeological and creative field research including drawing, photography, video and audio recordings • Reflexive research methods including participatory group work, spoken word and performance • Active response to the site – ‘reflection-in-action’ • ‘Reflection-on-action’ methods, following the field trip. Collaborative written by all the named authors, this multi-media conference paper was co-delivered at CHATMethod 2019 by Alex Hale and Susan Brind.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Art, Archaeology, Interdisciplinarity, Practice-led research, Site writing

Schools and Departments:

School of Fine Art > Sculpture & Environmental Art

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