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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. London Underground Map Harry Beck 1933. Bedolina Petraglyph
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PlaceWhile we might easily be lost in place, we would certainly be lost without it.Tacita Dean, Place
What is Place? Kathy Prendergast Lost, 1999
London Underground Map Harry Beck 1933 Bedolina Petraglyph Valcamonica 2500 BC
Simon Patterson The Great Bear 1992
Mona Hatoum Map 1998
Where is Home? 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
PlaceIn 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
Cave Paintings at Lascaux 15000 – 13000 BC
Wittgenstein’s Cottage, Lake Eidsvatnet, Norway The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperationOur life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplifyHenry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Jake and Dinos Chapman Hell 1999-2000
Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delight c. 1502
Land as PlaceLand is a natural phenomenon‘Landscape’ is a cultural construct
Casper David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of Fog 1818
Little Sparta, Stoneypath Ian Hamilton Finlay Blenheim Palace Capability Brown 1760s
Ken Smith, Roof Garden New York, 2002
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah 1969-70
Christo and Jean Claude Surrounded Islands Biscayne Bay, Miami 1980-1983
Richard LongI like the idea of using the landwithout possessing it Sahara Line 1988
Places remember eventsJames Joyce, preparatory note to Ulysses Rails leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau
Places remember events Anselm Kiefer, Markisher Sand (March Sand) 1980
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
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 www.studioit.org.uk