activateCHAT: Contemporary & Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference 2024Info Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionPlease find the provisional schedule here - activateCHAT Schedule You can also find more information about the screening of Clay & Bone (part of the CHAT schedule) here - Clay & Bone If you are registering between 6-10th November, please notify an organiser if you have any dietary and access requirements. For its 21st year, CHAT comes to Plymouth. People from across the creative and cultural industries and academic will respon to the themes 'ACTIVATE' and 'BUSY' through archaeologies spanning the post-medieval to the present and the future. If archaeology explores material change through time, how can creative archaeological practices inform understandings of the terms ACTIVATE - activisms, actions, beginnings, enlivenings - and BUSY - late capitalist work culture, being occupied, cluttered, neoliberal wellness mantra? What are the contemporary and historical archaeological forms of ACTIVATE and BUSY - as both seperate and intersecting themes - and how might this inform the way we (might) live? Through papers, tours, creative practice-as-research, and social gathering the conference will explore new material and spatial insights into the ongoing legacies of colonialism; the operation of power structures; practices that produce beauty and 'otherwiseness' out of idiosyncratic 'capitalist cracks'. We wish to stimulate conversations about the material workings of complicity, recuperation, subversion, divergence, and the liberation of humans and non-humans from extant radicalised, gendered, class-based inequalities. This event is supported by The Bridge, University of Plymouth. Event Location
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More InformationAccommodation Discount: Leonardo Plymouth have offered 20% off their best available rate - please use the code PLYMUNI24 in order to claim the offer. -- We will gather informally for food each night, which will include a night of fish and chips and a pint at Plymouth's famous Dolphin pub, where artist Beryl Cook spent many evenings. On Thursday night we will join a reception at The Box (Plymouth's museum and art gallery). Friday evening will be our own reception, followed by the official party at Images nightclub (acknowledging that everyone peaks too soon!). There will also be 4 tours around the city; keep an eye out for sign up options for these once the schedule is finalised. ---- Find out more at https://activatechat.chat-arch.org/ |