| Description |
365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. Kairos for a wounded country/ Jennifer Rutherford -- Pt. 1: 'I could dance it but my knee's buggered'. Changescapes/ Ross Gibson -- Can you argue with the honeysuckle?/Stephen Muecke -- Sensory displacements: migration and the Australian space/ Mandy Thomas -- Pt. 2: Shadow houses. The halfway house/ Alex Selenitisch -- Abandoned cubby huts: the camera and architecture as a site of dreaming/ Daniel Armstrong -- Undwelling: or reading Bachelard in Australia/ Jennifer Rutherford -- Pt. 3: Laboured places. The forest in the clearing: the environmental poetics of John Shaw Nielsen/ Paul Carter -- German Romanticism, British property and Indigenous sovereignty: landscape and literature in Australia/ Cassi Plate -- A eulogy for Fisherman's Village/ John Smith -- |
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Pt. 4: The footprints in the metre. Not walking falling: performing intimate immensity/ Rachel Fensham -- Dancing on the small screen: politics of space in Russell Dumas' 321/ Sally Gardner -- Morphological essence: measurement, inexact yet not imprecise/ Stuart Grant -- Pt. 5: Unsayable continuities. Intimate spaces: poesis, negativity and spirit/ Michael Brennan -- The geography of visual and poetic space: the melancholy gaze from the inside and the outside/ Ann McCulloch -- 'They seemed unbearably foolish and fragile': apple trees, intimacy and the strangeness of possession/ Lisa Slater -- |
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Pt. 6: Strange cartographies. Round Australia with Keith and Merle/ Barbara Holloway -- Spatiality and contaminated land: staging Maralinga/ Joanne Tompkins -- Australian spaces from the outside in: Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale 1954-2005/ Stephen Naylor -- 'Forget the true shape of the planet': Greg Egan's Distress and the ruins of Utopia/ Brian Greenspan -- The spatial poetics of computer games and the mapping of Australian space/ Russell Smith |
| Summary |
Draws on Gaston Bachelard's landmark 1958 work, The Poetics of Space, to explore the concept of creative-space making within an Australian context. The collection reflects the dialogue and response of artists, performers and cultural theorists. These 20 essays explore multidisciplinary notions of space by analysing dance, displacement and migration, artistic space in the bush, the connection between virtual and hyper-real space from video games to detention centres, indigenous ideas of space and the architectural and sociological contrasts of urban and suburban space |
| Analysis |
Borders |
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Colonialism |
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Cultural influences |
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Geography |
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Human territoriality - Australia |
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Landforms |
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Space and time |
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Space perception - Australia |
| Notes |
Part of the QUT Authors Collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
Borderlands. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001024179
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| Subject |
Geography.
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Human territoriality -- Australia.
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Landforms.
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Space perception -- Australia.
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| Author |
Holloway, Barbara.
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Rutherford, Jennifer, 1952-
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| LC no. |
2010533314 |
| ISBN |
9780980296464 (paperback) |
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