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Monday 26 November 2012

FOUCAULT OF OTHER SPACES











 An intersection of places.

Five principles:
1.    Utopia sites. No real place. Inverted analogy with real space of society.
           A preferred society, the unreal site.
2.    Heterotopias in society. Ie the cemetery, always existed next to a 
church yet in modern civilization end of 18th C cemetery’s are placed outside the sacred space into the suburbs. The dead body as the only trace of our existence.  contradictory sites: Cinemas and theaters. Two dimensional screen one sees a 3d space. A series of places that are foreign to one another (juxtaposition).
3.    The garden. The umbilicus, the navel of the world.
4.    Permanence and disappearance. The museum is a perpetual immobile place an acclamation of time. ( the Beany mobile museum). The temporal mode of festivals, fairgrounds, stands and displays.
5.    Opening and closing systems that both isolate. Like a prison, barracks, permission to enter.





CHRONIQUES= gossip, local news.

HETROCOLITE objects= irregular abnormal inflected forms belonging to more than one class. A person who deviates from ordinary rule.

HETEROCHRORY= cemetery as a mark of permanent disappearance of life. A place of something that once existed. Museums/libraries/galleries

HETEROTOPIA= is a concept to describe places of otherness, neither here nor there, simultaneously physical and mental ie the space of a phone call or the moment you see yourself in the mirror.

THERMODYNAMICS= cycles, equations of state and matter, processes.

UMBILICUS=  opening, navel like formation, hilum of a seed, precise location of something. origin.

The Epoch of space. Hierarchy of space through cosmology, history and theory. You can neutralize, invert, mirror or reflect spaces.

Being in an epoch of simulating juxtapositions near and far, side by side, of the dispersed. A network of connections.  He believes structuralism does not imply denial of time and what we call history.

Hi suggests Historic context of space in western experience  is hierarchic.
The middle ages was an ensemble of spaces, sacred places, profane places
protected places, open, exposed, urban and rural. 

Cosmologically, there are super celestial, celestial places and the celestial place in apposed to the terrestrial place.

There are places that things have been put: violently displaced, natural stable places.

The medieval space: the space of emplacement.
The infinite open space is about discovering and rediscovering.
Extension replaced by emplacement.
Humans determine what kind of space a place is.

Internal external spaces.  Private space.  Public space.  family space.  social space.  Cultural space.  useful space.  space of leisure.  work space.  The human site. Living site. Empty space.  All these, Foucult believes are still nurtured by the hidden presence of the sacred. 
Could this be what Tiravanija and Gillick blur the boundaries of, this is what postproduction challenges ?

The space of primary perception. space of dreams. transparent space.  Darl space.  Rough space.  Encumbered space.  Space from above.  The mirror as a place

Opposing spaces:
Sacred-profane
Protected-open and exposed
Urban-rural
Supercelestial, celestial- terrestrial
Utopia-hetrotopia
Immobile-temporal
Museum-festival
Above-below
Leisure-work
Hidden-exposed
Imaginary-real
virtual

Deleuze image and text  (p2)
text over image 
sayable-seeble
language - experience
text-image
= spaces of transformation 
'thought can take mediums beyond their limits'.
art transforms subject and embodies new qualities.
Art is a re-purposed idea where subjects and objects are transformed, re situates 'thought' into a broader context.
Deleuze sees thought as a medium