A Sense of Place Stage 2 CCS Miniprogramme

A Sense of Place Stage 2 CCS Miniprogramme 2 2007/08 Tutor: Andrea Peach (a. peach@rgu. ac. uk)

A Sense of Place Lectures Mondays (March 3, 17, 24) 1 -2 pm Seminars Tuesdays (March 11, 18, 25) (See CCS noticeboard for groups and times) Coursework hand-in Monday April 14 th Course information: www. studioit. org. uk

London Underground Map Harry Beck 1933 Bedolina Petraglyph Valcamonica 2500 BC

Simon Patterson The Great Bear 1992

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 Suh 348 West 22 nd 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

Actual Place / Matter Conceptual Place / Mind Hamish Fulton, One Hundred Walks, 1988

Actual Place / Matter Conceptual Place / Mind Dalziel and Scullion, Out There, 1998

Place = time and space Tacita Dean, Fernsehturm, Berlin 2000

Places have value

Rails leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau Places remember events James Joyce, preparatory note to Ulysses

Places remember events Anselm Kiefer, Markisher Sand (March Sand) 1980

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 Mona Hatoum Map 1998

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 Herons Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2005

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 you 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.