a sense of place stage 2 ccs miniprogramme 2 2005/06 tutor: andrea peach ([email protected])
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A Sense of Place
LecturesMondays (March 13, 20, 27)1-2pm
SeminarsTuesdays (March 14, 21, 28)(See CCS noticeboard for groups and times)
Coursework hand-inMonday April 24th
Bedolina PetraglyphValcamonica 2500 BC
A Sense of Place
Course Information:
www. studioit.org.uk
A Sense of Place
While we might easily be lost in place, we would certainly be lost without it.
Tacita Dean, Place
The power of place will be remarkable
Aristotle, Physics
the experience of place is one of inhabitation
Martin Heidegger, Being in Time
‘there is always more place’
Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions
Frances Walker, Off Saint Kilda, 2003
What is Place?
Kathy Prendergast
Lost, 1999
What defines this place?
Where are we?
Who belongs here?
Whose place is this?
Kathy Prendergast, Lost, 1999
Lordy Rodriguez
Island in the Centre
2002
‘there’s no place like home’
Place
In its most basic sense, place is the
setting of the events of human
living. Place is the location of
experience.
A place is a location
Lucy Lippard - The Lure of the Local
The lure of the local is the pull of place that operates on each of us … It is the geographical component of the psychological need to belong somewhere, one antidote to prevailing alienation.
Derek Jarman,
Prospect Cottage and Garden
Dungeness, 1991
Ken Smith, Roof Garden
New York, 2002
Place:not simply a location but the experience of one
Do-Ho Suh348 West 22nd St. Apt A, New York, NY 10011 at Rodin Gallery, Seoul/Toyko Opera City Art Gallery/Serpentine Gallery, London/Biennale of Sydney/Seattle Art Museum, 2000
Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home 1999
What is place?
Place, then, is not a physical location, nor is it a state of mind. Rather it is the engagement of the conscious body with the conditions of a specific location.
Arnold Berleant
Actual Place / Matter
Conceptual Place / Mind
Hamish Fulton,
One Hundred Walks, 1988
Actual Place / Matter
Conceptual Place / Mind
Dalziel and Scullion,
Out There, 1998
Actual Place / Matter
Conceptual Place / Mind
Tacita Dean, Fernsehturm, Berlin 2000
Place = time and space
Places have value
Places remember eventsJames Joyce, preparatory note to Ulysses
Rails leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau
Mona Hatoum, Present Tense, 1996
Just as none of us stands outside or beyond geography, so too no one is totally excluded from the battle about geography.
Edward W. SaidCulture and Imperialism
Constructing and Deconstructing Artificial Places
NL Architects, Cruise City, City Cruise, 2003
Rowena Dring, Think of Paradise, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 2002
Dale Chihuly, Green Grass; Blue HeronsRoyal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2005
Ross Sinclair, Hamnavoe Free State, 1999
Placelessness
Atopos (no place) Willie Doherty 2000
To be at all - to exist in any way - is to be somewhere, and to be somewhere is to be in some kind of place.
Place is as requisite as the air we breathe, the ground on which we stand, the bodies we have. We are surrounded by places. We walk over and through them. We live in places, relate to others in them, die in them.
Nothing is unplaced.
Edward S. Casey
For the Seminars Tomorrow, Consider:• What does ‘place’ mean to you?
• Where are you now?
• Where do you belong?
• Where have do come from?
• Where would you like to be?
• Consider whether ‘place’ is significant to you as an
artist or designer?
• How can the idea of ‘place’ influence and inform
the work of artists and designers?
• Bring supporting text or images, if possible.