Gabriel N. Gee, Caroline Wiedmer (eds.) Maritime Poetics Culture & Theory | Volume 219 Gabriel N. Gee holds a PhD in contemporary art history from the Université Paris X Nanterre. He teaches contemporary art history and theory at Franklin Universi- ty. His current research interests include twentieth century British and Irish art, the changing representations and imaginaries of port cities, as well as intercon- nected global histories. He is co-founder of the TETI group, for Textures and Ex- periences of Trans-Industriality (www.tetigroup.org). Caroline Wiedmer holds a PhD in comparative literature from Princeton Uni- versity. She teaches comparative literature, film studies, and cultural studies at Franklin University. Her research interests include memory studies, refugee stu- dies, documentary film, environmental humanities, law and culture, spatiality, and the workings of narrative in multiple domains of cultural, legal, and intellec- tual life. Gabriel N. Gee, Caroline Wiedmer (eds.) Maritime Poetics From Coast to Hinterland Published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation and Frank- lin University Switzerland Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National- bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http:// dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDeri- vatives 4.0 (BY-NC-ND) which means that the text may be used for non-commercial pur- poses, provided credit is given to the author. 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The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material. © 2021 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld Cover illustration: Gregory Collavini, 13.01.2018, View of Rotterdam Port, 2018 Proofread by The Angle (www.theangle.ch) Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-5023-5 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-5023-9 EPUB-ISBN: 978-3-7328-5023-5 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450239 Printed on permanent acid-free text paper. Contents Foreword ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 Introduction: maritime introspections Gabriel N. Gee and Caroline Wiedmer �������������������������������������������������������� 11 Part 1: Work and leisure in the port city Altona: Between land and sea Vanessa Hirsch ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 35 The future of work: scaffolds and agencies Johanna Bruckner ������������������������������������������������������������������������������47 Genoa: the story of a port city and its hinterland Cora Piantoni ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 55 European seaport narratives: mirroring history in contemporary media Giuliano Sergio ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 63 Part 2: Commerce Market stall: maritime commerce in the collections of European maritime museums Gabriel N. Gee �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������77 From lighthouses to barcodes Cliona Harmey �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������97 The European tour Gregory Collavini �������������������������������������������������������������������������������107 Bottleneck pressure: Port Said Jürgen Baumann ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 115 Part 3: Metabolic pressure Tarnished gold: border regimes from the Mediterranean to Switzerland Caroline Wiedmer �����������������������������������������������������������������������������123 Liquid territory Monica Ursina Jäger �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 143 They cleaned the beach before we arrived Anne-Laure Franchette ����������������������������������������������������������������������� 149 Between the city and the deep sea: on the plastic nature of the Helsinki shoreline Tuula Närhinen ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������157 No trophy Michael Günzburger ���������������������������������������������������������������������������165 Part 4: Dreamscapes Haul away: Liverpool’s irregular currents Bryan Biggs �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������173 North Canada – English Electric, 2010 David Jacques ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 191 A short journey (from Derry to Inishowen) Conor McFeely ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������197 A letter to Henrietta Dorota Lukianska ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� 203 Acoustic ocean: annotated video script Ursula Biemann ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 209 Foreword This volumeMaritime Poetics: From Coast to Hinterland began with a workshop organised by the TETI Group – Textures and Experiences of Trans-Indus- triality – in May 2018 at the independent art space Corner College, Zurich. The workshop accompanied an exhibition in two parts entitled Hinterland: the eyes of the lighthouse; blood as a rover, curated by Gabriel Gee and Anne- Laure Franchette. Many of the authors and artists contributing to the pres- ent collection of essays took part in the workshop, which opened grounds for further dialogues and collaborations on maritime representations and narrations, as they come to inform our present interconnected societies. The maritime in this volume is seen from the vantage points of the present, albeit a present constantly nurtured by past and historical ramifications; ofEurope , although a European continent perpetually tied to global routes and faraway seas and lands; of aesthetics, yet an aesthetics that unfolds through differ- ent artistic voices and practices in a radiant interplay with the many ways of life that make our contemporary worlds: architecture, engineering, mathe- matics, politics, literature, botany, trade, military, environmental sciences, history, psychology...and poetry. And it looks at these maritime waves from the hinterland, far from the shore where nevertheless the whiff of the sea, once one starts looking for it, becomes a flagrant bouquet engulfing fields, mountains and streets alike. The editors would like to thank all the contributors to the volume for their enthusiasm and commitment to this textual maritime project. We are also indebted to Dimitrina Sevova and Alain Roth, for the initial invitation to organise an exhibition at Corner College, Zurich and we thank Temperatio Stiftung for its support of the exhibitions in 2018. The research workshop which accompanied the exhibitions and this publication were made possi- ble by the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation which promotes 10 Maritime Poetics: From Coast to Hinterland scholarly research. We also thank Franklin University Switzerland for the platform they offered us to try out our ideas in the classroom and for their support of our research. We finally, and always, thank our families for read- ing and commenting on our work and for accompanying us on our many vis- its to port cities. Introduction: maritime introspections Gabriel N. Gee and Caroline Wiedmer Janus, the two-headed God, looks out and looks in. Down the Palatine hill in Rome, next to the church of San Giorgio in Velabro, not far from where Romulus and Remus were said to have been found by the she-wolf, stands the Arch of Janus Quadrifrons. It was erected in the early fourth century under the reign of Constantine, at the northeastern tip of the Forum Boarium, the cattle market of ancient Rome. Sixteen metres high and twelve metres wide, with an archway on each of its four sides, this arch of Janus served as a mon- ument and a gateway to the commercial centre of the Roman capital. The Forum Boarium dates back to the time of the Republic and is strategically located between the Palatine, Capitoline and Aventine hills, and the Tiber River. Janus, the God of passageways, of going in and out, was venerated in Rome from time immemorial. In the Forum Romanum, the temple of Janus geminus had been consecrated by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, in the seventh century BCE. Its door remained open in times of war, and closed, if only very rarely, in times of peace. The God with two faces, one looking outwards, the other looking inwards, presided over the fortunes of a growing territorial and commercial empire. As it was required to chan- nel increasing amounts of goods to feed the capital, the Portus Tiberinus, built under Servius Tullius in the sixth century next to the Forum Boarium, became congested. The seven hills are situated some twenty miles inland from the sea. In the first century BCE, the fortress at Ostia on the coast was further developed into a city. The need for a deep harbour port remained, and under
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