About this Event
The third lecture in the This Land is Your Land lecture series brings together Anne Bottomley, Emeritus Reader in Property and Law, Kent Law School and artist Rosalind Nashashibi to discuss Entangled Families.
Anne Bottomley
Entangled Islands, Entangled Families: A Chattel House in Parkland.
Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle has frequently referenced ‘chattel houses’ in her work. For a recent exhibition, she installed a version of one on the margins of the park lawns which lead down from the big house of Mount Stuart (on Bute) to the shoreline. What does this interruptive instillation suggest in terms of tracing legacies of colonization and enslavement in property?
Emeritus Reader in Property and Law, Kent Law School, Anne’s work draws from literature, art and film to investigate aspects of law in relation to land and the built environment. Her most recent project (Between Islands) traces legacies of colonization and enslavement evidenced in property relations across (and between) the Caribbean archipelago and British Iles.
Rosalind Nashashibi
A Palestinian family home in Nazareth
Hreash House is a short film made in 2003-4 of a Palestinian family living in a multi-story concrete building of their own construction. We see 24 hours of family life during Ramadan in 2003, the Hreash family extend to a small community in one building, sharing resources and responsibilities. Rosalind Nashashibi will present her film and talk about the weeks she spent with Hreash family in this traditional, collective, compound home.
Rosalind Nashashibi is a London based artist of Northern Irish and Palestinian descent. She received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield and her MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow. In 2020, Nashashibi was artist in residence at the National Gallery in London. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, The 14th Shanghai Biennale, Manifesta 7, The Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. Nashashibi received a Paul Hamlyn Award in 2014 and Becks Futures Award in 2003. Her solo exhibitions include; Nottingham Contemporary (UK); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR), Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT), Vienna Secession, (A), Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, (NL), The High Line, New York, (US); The Art Institute of Chicago, (US); and ICA, London (UK). She is currently nominated for the Derek Jarman Award.
Image: Film still from Hreash House, Rosalind Nashashibi, 2004, 16mm film transferred to HD
This event is part of the This Land is Your Land series organised by Georgia Hablutzel, Hamed Khosravi and Platon Issaias.
The series will explore the legacies of land commodification through visual, textual, and theoretical practices. Moving through disciplines of architecture, visual art, and law these lenses will provide a field to examine the legacies of power embedded in how land is recorded, possessed, and weaponised.
It will navigate various geographic contexts, from Europe and the Middle East to the Caribbean, in order to study the forms of historical and contemporary influence of Property on the formation of Land. Through practitioners' work This Land is Your Land seeks to unveil legal, social, economic, spatial, and political relations.
Often overlooked in contemporary discussions around architecture and spatial production, the series wishes to illuminate how Property is used as a method to mediate the dispute of historic sovereign powers. The lectures seek to reveal how jurisdiction, representation, indignity could serve as productive forces in imagining new relationships towards property and rights.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London, United Kingdom
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