place stage 1 lecture tutor: andrea peach ([email protected])
TRANSCRIPT
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