place stage 1 lecture tutor: andrea peach (a.peach@rgu.ac.uk)

Place

Stage 1 Lecture

Tutor: Andrea Peach (a.peach@rgu.ac.uk)

Place

While we might easily be lost in place,

we would certainly be lost without it.

Tacita Dean, Place

What is Place?

Kathy Prendergast

Lost, 1999

Bedolina PetraglyphValcamonica 2500 BC

London Underground MapHarry Beck 1933

Simon PattersonThe Great Bear 1992

Mona Hatoum

Map

1998

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

Where is Home?

Place

In its most basic sense, place is

the setting of the events of human

living.

Place is the location of

experience.

Derek Jarman,

Prospect Cottage and Garden

Dungeness, 1991

A place is a location

Cave Paintings

at Lascaux

15000 – 13000 BC

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Our life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplify

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

Wittgenstein’s Cottage, Lake Eidsvatnet, Norway

Jake and Dinos ChapmanHell1999-2000

Hieronymus BoschThe Garden of Earthly Delight c. 1502

Land as Place

Land is a natural phenomenon

‘Landscape’ is a cultural construct

Casper David FriedrichWanderer above the Sea of Fog1818

Little Sparta, Stoneypath Ian Hamilton Finlay

Blenheim Palace

Capability Brown

1760s

Ken Smith, Roof Garden

New York, 2002

Robert SmithsonSpiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah1969-70

Christo and Jean ClaudeSurrounded Islands Biscayne Bay, Miami1980-1983

Richard Long

I like the idea of using the landwithout possessing it

Sahara Line1988

Places have value

Places remember eventsJames Joyce, preparatory note to Ulysses

Rails leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau

Anselm Kiefer, Markisher Sand (March Sand) 1980

Places remember events

Place:not simply a location but the experience of one

Rowena Dring, Think of Paradise, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 2002

No-place (atopos) Willie Doherty 2000

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

www.studioit.org.uk

For Seminars in Week 8-9

Download Brief: Museum Without Walls 2

Consider the idea of PLACE

Choose an object from the Timeline which

relates to the idea of PLACE

Try to find another object which you can

connect to this and explain why / how