Speaking of Space: Revealing the Other St George's Field
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Tina Richardson University of Leeds Close to Home: Artists Reconsider the Local Land 2 2012 Speaking of Space: Revealing the Other St George's Field
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This paper discusses how urban spaces can be used in subjective and creative ways that run counter to their intended uses. Using a local space as her case study, the cemetery at the University of Leeds, Tina introduces novel and inventive ways that individuals have used the cemetery to both express themselves and respond to the space. These phenomena create momentary connections in the form of communications that take unconventional routes through space. This means they are able to challenge established power structures: cultural, linguistic, administrative, ideological and so on. Tina introduces some of these works while situating them within the fields of psychogeography and cultural theory.
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Tina RichardsonUniversity of Leeds
Close to Home: Artists Reconsider the Local Land2 2012
Speaking of Space:Revealing the Other St George's Field
Campus Map
Aerial View of Campus
Cemetery Timeline1835: On July 23rd the new cemetery was officially opened by architect John Clark
1922: Suggested acquisition of cemetery by the university
1930s Graveyard nearly full, some graves neglected
1947: University bursar re-opens question of cemetery acquisition
1958-1963 Cemetery closed and landscaped and original name was reverted: St George's Field
1965: Local opposition to University of Leeds Bill, re: cemetery development
1969: St George's Field completed
Pauline White (died 1946)
Engineering Department
The Forb(h)idden City
Chapel and Undercroft
Entering the Undercroft
Traversing the Cemetery
Sculpture by Charlotte Deponeo...
© Deborah Gardner
...discovered by us on a dérive
Odette Dewhurst's Photo
© Odette Dewhurst
Phoenix Drawing
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