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:

Solaris

1961
Stanislaw Lem
Solaris
6:00pm - 8:00pm Tue, 16th Feb 2010

The first 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. The exhibition will include A beautiful futuristic glass cinema will show Deimantas Narkevicius’s alternative ending to Tarkovsky’s film of Solaris, a classic of sci-fi cinema.>>> Read More

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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S Mark Gubb

S Mark Gubb works across a range of media incorporating sculpture, video, sound, installation and performance. The subjects for his work are drawn from the social and political culture he grew up in; an equal fascination with things he finds so great and so terrible about the world we live in. This often takes the form of a re-evaluation and re-interpretation of contemporary culture and history, placing the seemingly familiar in relation with the incompatible, to provoke us to consider our own contributions. Often working with the triptych and drawing on music and religious forms of communication, Gubb suggests a wider discourse around history, culture and belief systems, inviting us to reflect on our moral codes and desire and ability to impact upon and change the world we inhabit.>>> Read More