Conference Recordings
The Edge UHI Conference took place online on 15 and 16 December 2021. The keynote speakers were Professor Margaret Bennett, Professor Niall Sharples & Professor Mike Pearson. Recordings of the conference can be viewed below.
Keynote 1: Professor Mike Pearson
“'Held together by dirt': improvising life on the edge with the British Expedition to Graham Land, 1920-22”
Panel 1: “Islands at the edge of modernity: picturing the Western Isles”
Andrew Blaikie, Peter Moore & Matt Sillars
Session 1 ‘Connected by the Sea’
"Looking in from the edge: why do the statues of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) face inland? Rethinking interfaces, membranes and wrapping in E. Polynesia", Colin Richards
“An exploration of the perceived effect of intergenerational community coastal rowing on shared social identity and wellbeing”, Mari Todd & Matthew Slater
Session 2 ‘Drawing & Print’ (recording available soon)
“On the Rocks – Drawing at the Edge”, Cally Yeatman
“Temporal Edges”, Jean Newman
“Printing at the Edge and Over: transitional space in the artistic language of collaborative print”, Sandra De Rycker
Panel 2: "Watermarks: A viewing of a video assemblage of sixteen artists’ work"
Curated by Walking the Land collective and discussion with Iain Robertson and contributing artists.
More information about the Walking the Land collective and a contact sheet for all artists involved
Session 3 ‘Art & Industry’
“Theatrical responses to the Arctic, a Post-Soviet Arctic Story”, Jack MacGregor Reid
“The Ring Net on the Edge: Angus Martin (poet) and Will Maclean (artist)”, Lindsay Blair
Panel 3: “‘Whale Songs’; and the possibility of escaping the human”
Alex South, Katherine Wren, Lesley Harrison & Emily Doolittle
Day 2
Keynote 2: Professor Margaret Bennett
"Folk, Folklore & Folklife on the Edge of Academia"
Session 4 ‘Community & Sense of Place’
“The nature and influence of Up Helly Aa (UHA) in Shetland”, Wilma Goodlad
“The other landscape: holistic interpretations of place”, Frank Rennie
“Over the societal edge: a new analysis of the contemporary erasure of Gaelic”, Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
Keynote 3: Professor Niall Sharples
“Monumentalising the edge: Thinking about hillfort boundaries”
Session 5 ‘Urban Liminal and Contested Spaces’
“Underpasses Are Liminal Places”, Rebecca Lambert
“Falling through the gaps: young vulnerability, resistance, agency and creativity in street situations”, Vicky Johnson
Roundtable
“The Liminal Zone: The seashore as a metaphor for the interface between teaching and creative practice”, Mandy Haggith et al.
Session 6 'Edge Effects & Borderlands'
“Violent borders & rhizome infiltrations: Seaweeds, mutant flows & fascist micro-assemblages in 2666”, Simon Ryle
“Along the verge: engagement, edge effect and entanglement”, Caroline Dear
“Conceptualising landscape as an edge effect”, Rod Lovie
Conference conclusion & announcement of the 2022 UHI HARC/SILK Research Theme by Professor Michael Rayner.