Emma Kaufmann LaDuc
PATHS OF RESISTANCE—Landscape Practice as Commoning

The path traces a fluid, nonchronological history in the landscape. The work follows it, superimposing visceral experiences from traversing the landscape countless times with historical vignettes, as derived from archives both written and oral. Positioning the path itself as a carrier of situated knowledge and experience, its persistance is read as a result of continual and collective action. From within a site of ongoing peripheralization and socio-ecological crises, the work frames the importance of non-state, non-capitalist spaces and infrastructures. Both material and labor necessary to spatial practice are contextualised on site in order to operationalize landscape research: towards common sense— common knowledge of the landscape—and common space.