spatiality
Highlights
Struer Open Form Pavilion of Air / Struer Åben Form Pavillon af Luft
A floating roof of sound in Struer, GPS-triggered & accessed by headphones & Echoes app to playfully reframe public space as an essential community engagement. One of 15 in an international series drawing on Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s Open Form concept.
Performing memory in familiar places
This audio paper explores the author's repeated visits to their grandparents' villages near Prespes, using walking as a method to reconstruct family memories tied to historical migrations and trauma following the Greek Civil War. It considers the landscape as both a stimulus and archive of memory, blending personal narrative with cultural history through embodied spatial experience.
Agape / Temporary echoes
Video work is based on the intersection of new media, CGI animation, topography, live paths and physical movement in digital space. It's walking experience in the forest of Freising, Germany. The artist uses gps tracking of her walking experience to create this piece of art.
Marches
With Marches, commissioned by Artangel Inter- action in February 2008, Lawrence Abu Hamdan set out to explore the auditory perception of the built environment using the ephemeral and intangible nature of sound to re- imagine our architectural surroundings and daily spatial practices. These choreo- graphed marches saw ten participants navigate two planned passages through the urban
With objects, into sites, through bodies: Intermedia reflections on embodied prepositions
This paper explores the role of prepositions (with, into, through) in shaping walking performances and site-specific arts through material, spatial, and embodied entanglements. It examines how bodies, objects, and sites interact within participatory, mobile actions and how these narratives translate across installations, audiovisual, and digital media.
Articles elsewhere
Landscapes of visual repetition
The allure of seeing the world from above is so closely associated with the discipline of geography that some degree programs even suggest that students who “prefer the window seats on airplanes” might be potential future geographers. And while there are many reasons to be cautious about the totalizing perspective of the “God’s-eye view,” aerial images still nevertheless invite… Continue reading Landscapes of visual repetition →
47. Doreen Massey, For Space
I’ve meant to read Doreen Massey’s 2005 book For Space for quite some time now. My friend Rachelle Viader Knowles, who teaches at Coventry University, has told me that For Space was very influential on her PhD work. Also, while I’m very interested in the distinction Yi-Fu Tuan makes between space and place, I’m also aware that […]
