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Pauline Polkey Keynote Lecture

Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Invited talk

Description

The lecture focuses on the properties of the handmade object and foregrounds the necessity of craft and embodied practice. with discussion of Olsen's recent book Fossil Fuel: a book of hours that is based on the form of a medieval girdle book. Her talk charts a speculative trajectory for this medieval 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, in Olsen's practice, counters and marks the end of our fossil fuel era.
Period19 Jun 2025
Held atNottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • bookwork
  • environment
  • medival
  • art writing
  • Poetry and the Environment