Landscape with(out) Locus Book Talk

How do we understand landscape today? How do we discuss and visualize nature? Can they be conceived and represented as something existing independently of the viewer, now that the human race has gotten into a very last corner of the world? Join Head Hi and NERO Editions (Italy) as we host Eva Leitolf and Giulia Cordin, the editors of recently released book Landscape with(out) Locus, in discussion with landscape architect and contributor to the book Tiago Torres-Campos on these very questions.

Landscape with(out) Locus interprets landscape as an ever-changing social, economic, and ecological construct. Addressing questions of power, identity, and natural resources, the publication follows histories of surveillance and colonialism, considering photographic (and post-photographic) images as central to the process of interacting with the world. The book assembles a selection of images and texts by scholars and artists such as T.J. Demos, Tiago Torres-Campos, Tiffany Kaewen Dang, Hagit Keysar and…