Reflecting on their acclaimed ‘table-top’ performance Common Salt, the two makers Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer defined it as:
A retelling of several invisible entangled histories: a hedge seeded across India by the British to collect a cruel salt tax; the life of a female naturalist called Eliza Brightwen; our research journey; enclosures; what the UK’s wealth is built upon; where some of the collections we stare at in museums come from.
The Common Salt symposium is an interdisciplinary research event intended to celebrate Sheila and Sue week-long residency of performances and workshops in the College of Arts and at The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow.
To mark the residency, a number of researchers in the College of Arts have been invited to respond to the themes of Common Salt and to mix their research with Sheila and Sue’s own research into Imperialism, Colonial Economics, Environmentalism, Natural History, Curating and Material Cultures.
Free event with booking
