A Grammar of Space

Wallen, LP

A Grammar of Space

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Publisher:: University of Wollongong
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: A Grammar of Space

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dc.contributor.author	Wallen, LP https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4856-9864	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Agnieszka Golda	en_US
dc.date	2011-07-22	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	A Grammar of Space	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/32271
dc.description.abstract	'A Grammar of Space' takes some of the questions on the relationship between a territory and its descriptions, developed in Spatial Narratives (National Gallery Prague June 2011) and discusses those in a different materiality and aesthetic logic. In 'spatial narratives', a large and monolithic structure carries excerpts of landscape descriptions by eleven prominent Australian writers from indigenous and colonial backgrounds. This "body" of text is sliced through by a metal wheel studded with a description of the Australian landscape by Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cooks Endeavour. \ The eleven drawings of A Grammar of Space seem to be concealing a script underneath or possibly within their furious lines. Again, the eleven literary excerpts are present in the gallery space. But unlike in Spatial Narratives, here they are removed from the actual body of work. Mediated and at a distance to the drawings, they can be read in isolation, evoking many subjective landscapes of difference: physical and emotional, visible and imaginary. Each drawing comprises a landscape within its rich texture of webbed lines. The clearly defined outlines of the drawings, though, suggest an invisible border that is not to be transgressed just as the texts remain within their linguistic frame. Literary strategies and spatial strategies in this exhibition of alternate geographies describe the production and formulation of interior territories as the only possible model of an attempt to understand the spaces we create by living.	en_US
dc.format	installation	en_US
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Wollongong	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	A Grammar of Space	en_US
dc.title	A Grammar of Space	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong	en_US
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.place-of-publication	FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong	en_US
pubs.start-date	2011-07-22	en_US

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'A Grammar of Space' takes some of the questions on the relationship between a territory and its descriptions, developed in Spatial Narratives (National Gallery Prague June 2011) and discusses those in a different materiality and aesthetic logic. In 'spatial narratives', a large and monolithic structure carries excerpts of landscape descriptions by eleven prominent Australian writers from indigenous and colonial backgrounds. This "body" of text is sliced through by a metal wheel studded with a description of the Australian landscape by Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cooks Endeavour. \ The eleven drawings of A Grammar of Space seem to be concealing a script underneath or possibly within their furious lines. Again, the eleven literary excerpts are present in the gallery space. But unlike in Spatial Narratives, here they are removed from the actual body of work. Mediated and at a distance to the drawings, they can be read in isolation, evoking many subjective landscapes of difference: physical and emotional, visible and imaginary. Each drawing comprises a landscape within its rich texture of webbed lines. The clearly defined outlines of the drawings, though, suggest an invisible border that is not to be transgressed just as the texts remain within their linguistic frame. Literary strategies and spatial strategies in this exhibition of alternate geographies describe the production and formulation of interior territories as the only possible model of an attempt to understand the spaces we create by living.

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