incantation/ɪnkanˈteɪʃ(ə)n/nounnoun: incantation; plural noun: incantationsa series of words said as a magic spell or charm."an incantation to raise the dead"synonyms: chant, invocation, conjuration, magic spell, magic formula, rune;This 10 week course explores forms of connecting with the landscape through history, ‘summoning’, ritual and through explorations of perspectives that lie beyond the human and global north.In doing so, ideas about other worlds and other perspectives on them come in to play. This is what the idea of trans-substantiantion refers to: a form of transition away from or between subjective positions that has a transformative effect on the material object, whether that is a networked piece of technology, the state, or the natural environment. Trans-substantiation might have something to do with the idea of materialism itself.In general, two students per week will present on the recommended texts and, in addition, each week a third student will bring an image for the Looking and Thinking exercise.Looking and ThinkingThis is a somewhat separate part of the course and a defined section of each class. The goal is to develop our visual responses to work, to images, and enhance and explore the visual as the second core mode of research alongside reading that students of Art History and Theory engage with. Each week, a non-presenting student will bring an image of a work that relates to either the week’s theme, or the theme of the week before. The student must have thought about it and be able to talk provisionally about their thoughts and the work, but these thoughts need not be developed. We will then discuss the image, as it appears in the provided slide, together.