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Arcadian writing: two texts into landscape proposals

Arcadian writing: two texts into landscape proposals Abstract Two current art into landscape projects, Relay (Homebush Bay, Sydney, 1999) and Nearamnew (Federation Square, Melbourne, 1999–2001), employ text to articulate site morphology. Instead of treating the site as a page to be written over, as is conventional in monumental lettering in public spaces, the projects explore typographical conventions and reading practices to open a different dialogue about places and the associated ideologies of founding. Topography, they assume, is literally the writing of places; place-naming and name-placing fuse to produce object assemblages and associated environments where the spatio-temporal context texts presume is foregrounded, and reading entails a kind of slow choreography. As a result, in retracing the pathways of the writing, the reader-visitor enacts the site's coming into being. Founding merges into finding, in principle site-identification fuses with self-identification with the site. Instead of bringing about a simple repetition of the architect's founding gesture, these works emphasize participation in a present meaning.1 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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1943-2186
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10.1080/14601176.2001.10435244
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Abstract Two current art into landscape projects, Relay (Homebush Bay, Sydney, 1999) and Nearamnew (Federation Square, Melbourne, 1999–2001), employ text to articulate site morphology. Instead of treating the site as a page to be written over, as is conventional in monumental lettering in public spaces, the projects explore typographical conventions and reading practices to open a different dialogue about places and the associated ideologies of founding. Topography, they assume, is literally the writing of places; place-naming and name-placing fuse to produce object assemblages and associated environments where the spatio-temporal context texts presume is foregrounded, and reading entails a kind of slow choreography. As a result, in retracing the pathways of the writing, the reader-visitor enacts the site's coming into being. Founding merges into finding, in principle site-identification fuses with self-identification with the site. Instead of bringing about a simple repetition of the architect's founding gesture, these works emphasize participation in a present meaning.1

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jun 1, 2001

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