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Performing place, recalling space: a site-specific installation/ constellation in London

Author(s) -

Emily Orley

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

body space and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 1470-9120

DOI - 10.16995/bst.104

Subject(s) - geographer , constellation , negotiation , metaphor , limiting , space (punctuation) , politics , visual arts , sociology , history , art history , aesthetics , art , cartography , geography , social science , philosophy , engineering , political science , law , linguistics , mechanical engineering , physics , astronomy

Cultural geographer Doreen Massey (2005) and critical thinker Walter Benjamin (1940) both use the image of the constellation in their writings to describe place and history respectively. By drawing on their theories and bringing into play the concept of the constellation as a useful and multifaceted metaphor, this paper will suggest one way of negotiating the politics of place to document a site’s history without fixing or limiting it. My discussion will culminate in the account of a single case-study, a site-specific installation that I created in April 2008 at the Camden People’s Theatre in London in collaboration with fine artist Elinor Brass.

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