https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/walking-book-medieval-object-urban-flaneuse-runaway-disgust

This session focuses on the properties of the handmade object and foregrounds the necessity of craft and  embodied practice in a digital era in which disgust and pleasure are often encountered by proxy or at one remove from actual events or situations. 

Redell Olsen will discuss recent bookworks devised in response to the form of the medieval girdle book and their material poetics. She will trace a sometimes fictitious and highly speculative trajectory for this book form, from medieval accessory, through 19th and 20th century urban poetics, to a new enframing of a contemporary girdle book as necessary super-real  performance object, which counters and marks the end of our fossil fuel era. https://redellolsen.co.uk/fossil-oil-a-book-of-hours/(Opens in new window)
 
Professor Redell Olsen is a writer and visual artist who also makes work in hybrid media, bookworks and performance. She co-directs the Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London and runs the influential MA CW in Poetic Practice.

This is a practice-based seminar and will feature a walk with headphones around Senate House.

Seminar Series Out of Practice Seminar (Oops) Address Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Speakers Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London )

Event dates 18 February 2025, 5:00PM – 7:00PM

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