Intervening Spaces examines the interconnectedness between bodies, time and space – the oscillating and at times political impact that occurs when bodies and space engage in non-conventional ways. Bodies intervene with space, creating place. Likewise, space can reconceptualise notions of the subject-body. Such respatialisation does not occur in a temporal vacuum. The moment can be more significant than a millennia in producing new ways to see corporeal connections with space.
Drawing on theorists as diverse as Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lefebvre and Grosz, temporal and spatial dichotomies are dissolved, disrupted and interrupted via interventions—revealing new ways of inhabiting space. The volume crosses disciplines contributing to the fields of Sociology, Literature, Performance Arts, Visual Arts, Architecture and Urban Design.
Contributors are Burcu Baykan, Pelin Dursun Çebi, Michelle Collins, Christobel Kelly, Anthi Kosma, Ana Carolina Lima e Ferreira, Katerina Mojanchevska, Clementine Monro, Katsuhiko Muramoto, Nycole Prowse, Shelley Smith, Nicolai Steinø and İklim Topaloğlu.
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Nycole Prowse
Part 1: Reconceptualising the Body: Interventions on the Body That Enact Respatialisation
Possibilities from the Peripheries: Time, Space and the Body in the Australian Drug Writing of Helen Garner and Luke Davies
Nycole Prowse
Respatialising the Body: The Ontologically In-between Subject in Orlan’s Body of Work
Burcu Baykan
Corporeal Interventions and the Contemporary Sounds of Keening
Michelle Collins
In Search of a Relational Body: Reflections on Sustainable Architecture
Katsuhiko Muramoto
Part 2: Bodily Interventions on Material Spaces
Public Space Design between Alienation and Appropriation: The Case of Parkour
Shelley Smith and Nicolai Steinø
The Urban Challenge of Participation through Theatre in Rio
Ana Carolina Lima e Ferreira
New Interventions in Public Space: Spatial Readings through Art and Architectural Installations
İklim Topaloğlu and Pelin Dursun Çebi
Self-Organised Citizens’ Groups and Urban Space: Challenges in Planning Paradigm
Katerina Mojanchevska
Part 3: Temporariness: Artistic Interventions on Space and the Process of Becoming
Perpetual Transitions: A Communication between Photography and Absence within the Spatial Experience of the Ruin
Clementine Monro
Colonial and Gothic Dissonance: Tracing Desire Lines through Postcolonial Landscape
Christobel Kelly
Spacing by Trace: Four Events of an Out of Place Experience
Anthi Kosma
Index
Nycole Prowse holds a PhD and teaches into the Literature program at USC, Australia. Her research focuses on literary representations of gender and addiction. Nycole’s publications include chapters in Claiming Space: Australian Women’s Writing (2017 Palgrave Macmillan), Addiction and Culture (2012 Cambria), and her upcoming book Heroin(e) Habits (Gylphi).