Hinterland Projects has now completed its series of site-specific projects along the River Trent in Nottingham. The Reading Room continues its programme at One Thoresby Street and other venues.

The Reading Room

The Reading Room is presented by Hinterland in association with Via Vaudeville! It is a regular event for individuals interested in discussing short texts and pieces of writing encompassing a wide range of topics including time, space, life, death, sex, perception and magic.

Academic and philosophical texts alongside critical theory provide useful links between disciplines such at the social sciences, humanities and contemporary art as well as being the predominant language of social theory and literary criticism.   For the uninitiated, to engage in such reading can seem like entering a perplexing labyrinth of conflicting schools of thought, complex theories and endless jargon. This regular meeting is for people who wish to expand upon their existing knowledge and for those who want to come along and learn about something completely new. Each month, an invited member of the group or a guest, will select a text and we will come together to discuss it and apply the chosen text to examples of art works, films, other texts or other phenomena.

Next Reading Room:

The Divine Vessel

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Heather & Ivan Morison
The Divine Vessel
6:00pm - 8:00pm Tue, 16th Mar 2010

 The second in a series of Reading Room sessions at Nottingham Contemporary's Study Centre as part of the group exhibition 'Star City: The future under Communism'. Short stories and utopic writings by artists and Sci Fi writers will make up this series of informal talks, which will be informed by the inclusion of special guest readers. This session will be attended by the authors, artists Heather & Ivan Morison, who are well known for their utopic installations and site specific work.

 

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Hinterland

In 2009, Hinterland launched a number of events, exhibitions and talks alongside new site-specific commissions of temporary public art.

Since 2006, Hinterland was led independent curator, Jennie Syson. Working together with artists, Hinterland was set up to closely examine geographical areas that surround the River Trent in Nottingham, which make up a ten-mile car free cycle route around the city known as the Big Track. Temporary site-specific commissions are selected to scrutinise specific places as though encapsulated in a species quadrant.

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Rebecca Beinart

Rebecca Beinart is a Nottingham based artist, activist, educator, gardener and cook. Her work invites you to taste your surroundings, sniff out stories and listen to other inhabitants of a place. She makes bespoke equipment for urban expeditions, and interventions in public places that playfully ask serious questions. The temporary spaces she creates are stowed away and carried off without leaving a trace.

Her project for Hinterland, Field Kitchen, is a bespoke bicycle trailer that incorporates the necessary equipment to cook edible plants found on expeditions in urban wilds. Attempting self-sufficiency, the mobile kitchen uses rocket stoves powered by waste and wood to cook foraged food.

Field Kitchen makes physical and social interventions into public spaces, offering an invitation to people to smell and taste their botanical locale. The project examines what we can find in our immediate surroundings for sustenance, pleasure and well being – raising questions about our relationship with plants and food, our reliance on imported goods, and lost fields of knowledge.>>> Read More