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A Sense of PlaceStage 2 CCSMiniprogramme
22005/06Tutor Andrea Peach
(a.peach_at_rgu.ac.uk)
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A Sense of PlaceLecturesMondays (March 13, 20,
27)1-2pmSeminarsTuesdays (March 14, 21,
28)(See CCS noticeboard for groups and
times)Coursework hand-inMonday April 24th
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A Sense of PlaceCourse Information www.
studioit.org.uk
Bedolina Petraglyph Valcamonica 2500 BC
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A Sense of PlaceWhile we might easily be lost
in place, we would certainly be lost without
it.Tacita Dean, Place
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The power of place will be remarkableAristotle,
Physicsthe experience of place is one of
inhabitationMartin Heidegger, Being in Time
there is always more placeLuce Irigaray,
Elemental Passions
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Frances Walker, Off Saint Kilda, 2003
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What is Place?
Kathy Prendergast Lost, 1999
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What defines this place?Where are we?Who
belongs here?Whose place is this?
Kathy Prendergast, Lost, 1999
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Lordy Rodriguez Island in the Centre 2002
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theres no place like home
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PlaceIn its most basic sense, place is the
setting of the events of human living. Place is
the location of experience.
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A place is a location
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Lucy Lippard - The Lure of the LocalThe 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.
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Derek Jarman, Prospect Cottage and Garden
Dungeness, 1991
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Ken Smith, Roof Garden New York, 2002
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Placenot simply a location but the
experience of one
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Do-Ho Suh 348 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
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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
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Actual Place / Matter
Conceptual Place / Mind
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Actual Place / MatterConceptual Place / Mind
Hamish Fulton, One Hundred Walks, 1988
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Actual Place / MatterConceptual Place / Mind
Dalziel and Scullion, Out There, 1998
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Tacita Dean, Fernsehturm, Berlin 2000
Place time and space
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Places have value
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Places remember eventsJames Joyce, preparatory
note to Ulysses
Rails leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau
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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.
Said Culture and Imperialism
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Constructing and Deconstructing Artificial
Places
NL Architects, Cruise City, City Cruise, 2003
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Rowena Dring, Think of Paradise, St
Bartholomews Hospital, 2002
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Dale Chihuly, Green Grass Blue Herons Royal
Botanic Gardens Kew, 2005
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Ross Sinclair, Hamnavoe Free State, 1999
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Placelessness
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Atopos (no place)
Willie Doherty 2000
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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
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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.