This is an online conference held by OCAD U from Toronto and UAL, leading by the topic of landscape, we talked about how landscape position on nowadays creative practice. Every speaker brings up their idea from or above the framework of landscape, towards different aspects. Relating to body, identity, sound, political issue, as memories and recreation and so much more. This conference included two day for the event, it is also an open dialog to boarder the exploration on topic though outreaching people research on different areas.
I found the whole conference is very engaging and inspiring, as I have been working in painting landscape as subject for years. It gave me a new sight to see what it means to other researchers, at the same time I found common in part of their words. Also putting me into an alternative way to picture or express my subject. Through the dialog, I understand more about how people understand my research in another way, as audience, and I further think about how can I push it forwards bringing up the connection to people in various way.
Who can determine the truth of history when we get lost in translation?
Words are pieces of fragments we can only hold on to the past human experience barely. With the vulnerability and limitation of each of the languages verbal and nonverbal wise, the record of time-space captured by the landscape helps us to connect with different human experiences and history.
With writings and other transformations of recording, those events that happened in the past, namely history, can be remembered.
However, due to governmentship, political or natural issues, part of our history is sometimes lost or erased. Meanwhile, people create and express even when under pressure, for what they experience. The language of landscape empowers people to create a strong sense and connection with their experience at a certain time space . The connection with space provides us the intention to record, create, and remember, in defence of the change in political means or restriction.
The process of remembering is actually against human danger “to forget”.
But for what we experience, we need not to remember nor forget, as it has made up part of us in the present. Landscape, as a holistic environment, not only witnesses all the past and present, but brings us the power of nature. It acts as a platform to land our thoughts on, as a metaphorical space. To receive the message via connection with landscape, also a way to connect with yourself, reflection of the environment, society wise.
With creation, it allows the freedom of thinking and connects humans in an intellectual stage. So how can linkage with landscape decolonise our understanding and experience as a first person view even with the loss in translation? In what way does landscape build the connection and help improve human understanding of the present, past and future?
It suggested the corners of infinity blank space.
How can we determine the truth of history when we get lost in translation?
How can painterliness stand in the position of language?
Before talking about what landscape meant to be, here is some reference brings me understanding towards the linkage of blank space in human communication through language and memories.