Saturday, 31 March 2018

Synthesis: My/ Kinloch's Photography




  • Kinloch speaks about discomfort in liminal spaces due to the unknown. He believes his images portray this feeling and conjure up a sense of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘primal fear’ (2013, Where City Meets Wild)
  • Freud thinks this fear comes from something that was once familiar, that was repressed and now becomes familiar again (where did I read this?)
  • Slight creepiness and unfamiliarity when objects are taken out of context - marks of age - don't know story

  • Surprising: thought my pictures would find middle ground between spaces - chaotic but ordered at the same time
  • Thought order of non-place would tone down chaos of liminality 
  • Actually: greater contrast in chaos and order - conflict - greater sense of unfamiliarity - even more creepy 
  • Almost create a more enhanced version on liminality 
  • Essentially created fictional spaces that are even more obscure, unexplained and difficult to navigate




Sunday, 18 March 2018

Synthesis: Sound maps/ Psychogeography

  •  The dense complex lines of the non-place maps represent the loud layered noise (and the opposite for liminal space)
  • Playing with the theme of the order of non place vs. the chaos of liminality - it is interesting to find something that contradicts this within both spaces
  • Maps contradict theoretical nature of spaces

Liminal Space Maps:

Contradicts: The antithesis of structure in society, a state that seems dangerous to those tasked with maintaining structure (Shure 2005)

Non-Place Maps:

Contradicts: It is a constructed, ordered space in which the visitor is mediated and directed through the space by signs (Augue 1995)

http://cryptoforest.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/forage-psychogeography-is-here.html
Guy Debord book cover
  • Makes me think of psychogeography - random paths on maps - links with liminal exploration
  • Crossing established boundries - About how space makes us feel, behave - could look into?
  • T. Richardson, 2015, Walking Inside Out, London: Rowman and Littlefield International. Ltd