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Language |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wallen, LP
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4856-9864
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dc.contributor.editor |
Sodia Lodker |
en_US |
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dc.date |
2011-06-09 |
en_US |
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dc.identifier.citation |
PQ2011 |
en_US |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31856
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dc.description.abstract |
'Spatial Narratives' is an installation constructed of spatial descriptors from the writings of Australian authors and playwrights. The exhibition presents a curated selection of extracts that describe landscape and spaces posited as being a central characteristic of Australian literature and a critical influence on the spatial autobiographies and narratives of contemporary Australian artists, architects and scenographers. It explores spatial location as an influence on the cultural production of its immediate audience, and identifies regional intellectual differentiation as a critical factor in a globalised art discourse. The origins of the installation lie in the journal entries of Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the botanist on the ship that discovered Australia. Being the first description of a unique Australian landscape and space unknown to European culture, it has become a definitive descriptor. Working inside the void of the seemingly objective authority of the text and our spatial interpretation, the work questions the way we define physical stage space and the socio-political influences that affect our memory of space. |
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dc.format |
installation / scenography |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space |
en_US |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
PQ2011 |
en_US |
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dc.title |
Spatial Narratives |
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dc.type |
Exhibition |
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utslib.location |
Prague National Gallery |
en_US |
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utslib.for |
1203 Design Practice and Management |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice |
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utslib.copyright.status |
closed_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
false |
en_US |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Prague National Gallery |
en_US |
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pubs.start-date |
2011-06-09 |
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pubs.rights-statement |
The exhibition Spatial Narratives was produced for the 12th edition of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ2011) 16 – 26 June 2011, at the Prague National Gallery, as Australia’s national contribution to the most important exhibition of scenography and theatre architecture in the world. Spatial Narratives demonstrated a rare and performative reading of the land, the distant terra incognita Australia through the monolithic object placed at the centre of the exhibition. Spatial Narratives conceptualized an assembly that posited colonial, indigenous and non-indigenous voices within a spatial construction that inherently critiqued the first, the formerly dominant, master narrative (Lyotard 1979). Spatial Narratives was concerned with the unfolding of a physical or virtual figure in relationship to an existing or an intended narrative over time. It is this staging of space, however, where the work proves itself as a practice of difference as it elicits, makes visible and stages the gap between the space and the object, a gap that, I believe, can only be experienced through participation, through enactment, and, possibly, through the ambivalent gesture of the black cube in the white box, relentlessly performing acts of space. The works creates new knowledge in the area of scenography and spatial design by the invention and implementation of a system of spatial descriptors to replace the more commonly exhibited spatial representation (i.e. the scale model) thus contributing to the field of research through a culturally and historically inclusive methodology that works through description rather than representation and develops a spatial dialogue between the colonial text and the texts that followed. The exhibition attracted 50,000 visitors along with international press. |
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