Vehicles for Abandon: On Strange, Pointless, Intensely Libidinal Things1 is an audio/project statement which was performed in an embodied, live format at the Wild Research two-day symposium, held at The Revelator, Glasgow, on 13/14 September 2024.
The symposium was co-organised by academics / artists from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, and beyond, and the Journal of New Media and Education at Glasgow, and gathered together practice researchers/artists interested in theorising, rather than ‘claiming’, wild research, and opening up a conversation into what it could be, and what alternative modes of knowledge production might entail.
The venue itself is wild, being a nomadic, illegal structure, built by volunteers, without funding and unfettered from institutions. Works and events are run without permission, and subject to incidental noise, and the structure could be removed at any time.
*The Camille Paglia quotation in the transcript is timestamped at the Chicago Humanities Festival (2018, 10:54-11:02).
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Chicago Humanities Festival. 2018. Camille Paglia: Provocations. [Online]. [Accessed 20 March 2024]. Available from: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nvmTHQviAHM
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Talbot, S. 2024. Vehicles for abandon: On strange, pointless, intensely libidinal things, Wild Research Conference, 13/14 September 2024, The Revelator, Barclay Curle, Glasgow.
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