In stories of globalisation/capitalism we are told we are on an inevitable path – a constant growth and development towards complete globalisation. As part of this narrative we are told that less economically developed countries are ‘behind’, rather than considering the possibility that they are on their own trajectories – that they aren’t just at a different time to us, rather are a different place entirely – this helps us break out of the all-consuming nature of capitalism.
Giving space to a multitude of trajectories
There’s a definite crossing over of space and time in my sculptures. I see the materials as moments in a material’s life – they are moving through both space and time. Are they spaces of their own? In which things can happen?
Difference between space and place – place often being held on to as non-changing, a ‘sense of place’ needing to be retained etc (which can be harmful and valuable in different situations – e.g. nationalism to protecting indigenous peoples homes), whereas space is perhaps more a space of change. (5-6, my paraphrasing). Then going on to consider:
Interesting in relation to diss the fact that she’d only do this ‘if it landed on land’.
Also illustrates nicely the ‘contemporaneous heterogenity’ of space
Anna Harris 