2. Waste in Place: The McRobies
Gully Tip as Landscape
(working title)
3. The project Waste in Place: The McRobies
Gully Tip as Landscape will use representations
of the McRobies Gully landfill site in South
Hobart to explore contemporary
understandings of landscape and its
relationship to the aesthetics of human and
non-human relations.
5. ...through this daily gesture I confirm the
need to separate myself from a part of what
was once mine, the slough or chrysalis or
squeezed lemon of living, so that tomorrow I
can identify completely (without residues)
with what I am…
Italo Calvino
La Poubelle Agréée
1976 in The Road to San Giovanni, Penguin, London.
6. …disposal is a kind of purification ritual that
restores us to an ordered state; that is its
function and its pleasure. Framing things as
rubbish doesn’t just help us eliminate things
from our lives; it also helps us experience the
fantasy of self-sovereignty and ontological
separateness.
Gay Hawkins
The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish
2006 Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated, Lanham, Md.
7. …we wound up in production sites. We
hadn’t followed things consumed, used up
and ejected from the economy – we were
right in the middle of it. Was this the end
of a global production network? Or the
beginning of one?
Josh Lepawsky and Charles Mather
From beginnings and endings to boundaries and edges:
rethinking circulation and exchange through electronic waste
2011 Area, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 242-249.
8. “Can you see anything?” Carnarvon asked
as Carter thrust a lighted candle through a
hole into the gloom of the first
antechamber. ”Yes,” Carter replied.
“Wonderful things.”
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy
Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage
1992 Harper Collins, New York.
10. …views about the appropriate aesthetic
appreciation of natural environments have
ramifications for environmental ethics.
Allen Carlson and Arnold Berleant
The Aesthetics of Nature
2004 in A Carlson & A Berleant (eds), The aesthetics of natural
environments, Broadview Press, Orchard Park, NY.
11. …the very idea of nature which so many
hold dear will have to wither away in an
“ecological” state of human society.
Strange as it may sound, the idea of nature
is getting in the way of properly ecological
forms of culture, philosophy, politics, and
art.
Timothy Morton
Ecology Without Nature
2007 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
13. The aim of this book is to change
“landscape” from a noun to a verb. It asks
that we think of landscape, not as an object
to be seen or a text to be read, but as a
process by which social and subjective
identities are formed.
W.J.T. Mitchell
Imperial Landscape
2002 in WJT Mitchell (ed.), Landscape and power, 2nd edn,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
14. The notion that the land had no identity
before the arrival of the Europeans, that it
was pristine, straight from the hand of the
creator…was not politically innocent.
Consciously or not those who voiced it were
contributing to the doctrine of terra nullius.
Roslynn Haynes
Tasmanian Visions: Landscapes in Writing, Art and Photography
2006 Polymath Press, Sandy Bay, Tas.
15. Like organism and environment, body and
landscape are complementary terms: each
implies the other, alternately as figure and
ground. The forms of the landscape are not,
however, prepared in advance for creatures
to occupy, any more than are the bodily
forms of those creatures independently
specified in their genetic make-up. Both sets
of forms are generated and sustained in and
through the processual unfolding of a total
field of relations…
Tim Ingold
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood,
Dwelling and Skill
2000 Routledge, London.
16. …like revelation, landscape draws things
together, connects them, allows them to
appear; like revelation, landscape also hides
things, removes them, obscures them from
view; like revelation, landscape is both
singular crystal and the remotest things.
Landscape is where we find, and also lose,
ourselves.
Jeff Malpas
Place and the Problem of Landscape
2011 in J Malpas (ed.), The place of landscape: concepts, contexts,
studies, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
17. Questions / suggestions
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Morton: http://publish.uwo.ca/~nassr/publication_images/morton-cover.jpg
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Haynes:
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