26-29.06.2022 | Symposium Under the Landscape. Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, Therasia and Santorini, Greece.
26-29 June 2022 | Therasia and Santorini, Greece.
Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard will hold one of the key-note lectures in the Symposium Under the Landscape, organised by the collective Boulouki in Greece.
In various debates concerning the multiple crises that have marked the first quarter of the 21st century, the notion of landscape has become a pivotal term: from the rhetoric of global organisations to social media imagery, and from the Venice Biennale to tourism advertising campaigns, 'landscape' travels across different spheres of culture, interconnecting notions of beauty and survival, heritage and leisure, natural resources and identities. Whether in strategies for efficiency and ‘resilience’ in the face of total environmental catastrophe, or in approaches that challenge human-centric worldviews, the notion of the landscape is there, making it increasingly imperative to critically examine this growing topicality and ubiquity. What lies 'under' the landscape?