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Graduate Student, School of Language and Literature
University of Aberdeen, The Centre for Modern Thought
Visual Culture and Modern Thought
Thesis Title: Ecologies without Nature: processual approaches to landscape in contemporary visual culture (provisional)
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Dr Simon Ward
Dr Laura McMahon |
About
My doctoral research in the areas of Visual Culture and Modern Thought considers contemporary landscape photography, film, and installation art in relation to ecologically informed aesthetic theories. I'm currently researching animals in cinema through a reading of Michelangelo Frammartino's film "Le Quattro Volte".
I'm concerned with how such theories might help to promote a critically informed hospitality towards nonhuman others. My thesis stages a series of (im)properly ecological encounters in landscapes immanently composed of distributed material agencies (animals, vegetables and minerals). My research is informed by the thought of Jacques Derrida and Jean Luc-Nancy, and the darkly ecological aesthetic theory of Timothy Morton.
I'm also a keen photographer, currently involved in a collaborative project with Mark Fisher on the concept of "Hauntology" ('Ghosts of My Life,' Zer0 books, forthcoming). I have held two exhibitions of my work, which has also been published in Frieze magazine.
Some examples of my photos can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_heppell/
