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Place and Non-Place
Lecture 3
Landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture.
It is both a represented and presented space, both a signifier and a signified.
WJT Mitchell
GENIUS LOCI
The unique spirit of place
To be human is to live in a world that is filled with significant places: to be human is to have and know your place
E Relph (Place and Placelessness)
Oliver Bomberg, Courtyard, 1997
Thomas Demand, Rolltreppe (escalator), 2000
Thomas Demand, Gate, 2004
People do not simply locate themselves, they define themselves through a sense of place.
Michael ChangCultural Geography
Nathan ColeyVilla Savoye 1997
MACDONALDLAND
In its brightness and its suggestion of fantasy that is not realised, in its superficial gloss to disguise a very ordinary product, in its intimations of adventure and freedom that barely obscure a precise and rigid organisation, and especially in its obvious and seductive appeal for commercial ends.
E Relph
Brent Cross, London
Oklahoma City
‘Little Italy’, New York New York, Las Vegas
What is ‘non-place’?
Can ‘non-place’ be a place?
Willie Doherty 2000
Marc Augé,
Non-Places:
Introduction to an
Anthropology of
Supermodernity, 1995
Hong Kong Airport
Heathrow Airport
Stuttgart Airport Germany
Kansai Airport, Osaka Japan
I suspect that the airport will be the true city of the 21st century. The great airports of the planet are already suburbs of an invisible world capital … a centripetal city whose population forever circles its notional centre, and will never need to gain access to its dark heart
JG Ballard
Untitled (Tokyo)Peter Fischli / David Weiss, 1990/2003
Carol Rhodes
Service Station, 1998
Placelessness
Willie Doherty 2000Oliver Bomberg, Concrete Bridge, 1997
Oliver Bomberg, City Tunnel, 1998
Placelessness
Mass communication appears to result in a growing uniformity of landscape and a lessening diversity of places by encouraging and transmitting general and standardised tastes and fashions
E Relph
Elvira HufschmidHighway Poem, 2004
Jennie Pineus, Head Cocoons and Cocoonchair, 2000
Lucy OrtaRefuge Wear, 2001
Perhaps all this movement blurs our surroundings, like a view from a train window, separating ‘us’ from ‘them’.
…is place becoming increasingly dissolved by the developments of the modern world? Is the local vernacular being replaced by international conformity? Are we losing distinct places and places of distinction? Are our most powerful relationships with other places mediated by the screen?
Tacita Dean / Jeremy Millar - Place
Map RockSnake River, IdahoArtist and date unknown
The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes
Marcel Proust
For the Seminar:
• Choose an image which you feel represents the concept of ‘placelessness’ or ‘non-place’
• How does this image challenge ideas of ‘place’ discussed earlier in the programme?
• Can ‘nowhere’ also be somewhere?
Bring your Critical Notebook and come prepared to discuss your ideas for your essay!