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Issue 7
Winter 2007
On Space

Issue 7

On Space

Shaping Space: Notes on the Problem of Space in Art and Philosophy

Barry Empson and Tim Mehigan
University of Otago
In June 2006 a conference devoted to the topic ‘On Space’ was held at the University of Otago. Selected contributions to this conference appear in this issue of Double Dialogues.

Unfinished Episodes

Dougal McNeill
Hegel, in his Phänomenologie des Geistes, suggests that literary works are like ‘fine fruits fallen from the tree’: over time they manage to maintain less and less of that fresh, juicy memory of the social whole out of which they were produced (Hegel 1931: 435-6).

Picturing Space: Theo Schoon, Ross Crothall and Visual Art in the Pacific

Anthea Gunn
The Australian National University
Defining the ‘national identity’ was a leitmotif of arts and academia in the mid-twentieth century in Australia and New Zealand, as both nations sought to reconcile Western cultural heritage with the Pacific space they inhabited.

Interconnections in Blakean and Metamodern Space

Alexandra Dumitrescu
University of Otago
Everything starts from the physical world. Our perception of it shapes our philosophies, our concepts, our way of positioning ourselves in the world. We have grown to believe in the old hierarchical fallacy – a useful paideic concept though it certainly was.

The Space of Palimpsest

Neil Fettling
La Trobe University
The stereotypical non-Aboriginal experience of inland Australia encompasses a sense of ‘other-ness’ and a disconnection with place.

The Gestalt in the Machine: Ecological, Historical and Cultural Space in the Literature of Halldór Laxness

Scott Rawlings
Deakin University
A common criticism of public policy is that it operates in a political space which is in effect a vacuum of neoclassical economics.

Linguistic Variation across Space: The Study of Dialects

Ángela Gracia
University of Otago
The aim of this paper is to discuss space in geographical terms in relation to regional linguistic variation as it appears in dictionaries compiled in Spain during the 18th century.

The Representation of War in Museums

Kate McCulloch
University of Melbourne
One of the most remarkable images in recent times was the footage of people falling to their deaths from the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. This event creates the political context for the moment in which we now live – a world in which terrorism exists on a global level.

‘Timespace’: The Interplay of Material and Imaginative Spaces in a Physical Theatre Production of Heiner Müller’s Quartett

Bronwyn Tweddle
Victoria University of Wellington
The stage directions, which introduce the printed text of East German writer Heiner Müller’s play Quartett, imply multiple performance ‘spaces’ for this dramatic work, an interplay of both material and imaginative ‘spaces’ of performance.

(Falling into) the space between the screen and the audience

Stephen Goddard
Deakin University
This presentation considers the gap – that space in the cinema – between the audience and the screen. I am referring to the Cinema as an institution, and the cinema as a location.

Figure, Ground and Framing in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Michael Schraa
University of Otago
Even the most casual observer of Hollywood filmmaking can recognise the dramatic impact of CGI (Computer Generating Images) technologies upon movie-making over the last ten years, particularly in the ‘blockbuster’ film.

Photographic Space and the Indian Portrait Studio

Wendy Garden
University of Melbourne
The struggle for identity, for culture, for nation is a struggle inscribed in space. Space gives rise to the manner in which this struggle is experienced as well as our experiences of being.

Double Gazing and Novel Spaces: Examining Narrated and Manifest Photographs in the Novel

Peter Davis
Deakin University
This paper examines the relationship between photography and the novel by asking the question, ‘How does the presence of a photograph in a novel affect our reading of that novel?’

Presentation and Representation of Time and Space in Chinese Traditional Theatre: With Special Reference to The Peony Pavilion

Xiaohuan Zhao
University of Otago
Players perform onstage, but the characters they play may be in a living room, a courtyard, a garden, or even in a supernatural world.

Metaphors of Spectatorial Space in Beckett’s and Ionesco’s Theatre

Octavian Saiu
University of Otago
In her last book, Susan Sontag compared the inner space of the mind with a theatre, in which ‘we picture, and it is these pictures that allow us to remember’ (2003: 88).

Pakehatanga in Performance – Local Bodies Navigating Theatre Space in Aotearoa/New Zealand; with Special Reference to ‘Fishnet’, a Dance Work

Adriann Smith
University of Otago
I mihi to you in Irish Gaelic, the language of my mother’s forebears. A smattering of Gaelic is part of my inheritance. But the fact that I mihi at all demonstrates the marks made upon me by the tangata whenua.

Space and Loss: Spirituality and Symbolic Connectedness in Contemporary Culture

David B. Ritchie
Deakin University
This paper examines the significance of space in the experience, stories and memories of loss and grief.

Circumlocution: Richard Long’s Double Dialogue with Space

Ann Poulsen
University of Auckland
Why do we sometimes walk around what we are trying to say, talking in circles instead of going straight to the point? Usually it is because we are having some difficulty in expressing our ideas.

This issue of Double Dialogues looks at ‘space’ from multi-perspectives. Firstly it acknowledges that its questions go beyond answers formerly provided by traditional cognitive science. To embrace, highlight and enlarge a cliché: there is more to space than meets the eyes, the mind and the heart.

These essays explore the way ‘space’ is perceived, lived within, manipulated and re-invented. In the hands of visual, theatrical, musical and literary artists, artefacts exist in and outside material space; they disturb space and re-imagine it.

Art historians, literary critics and philosophers examine spaces: whether galleries, inner-consciousness or the unknown space within a metaphor, and explore the extent to which the world we see is merely the world we desire - whether via language, images, music, dance or song.

 

Double Dialogues | Refereed Arts Journal | ISSN 1447-9591  
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