Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation

Visiting Australia for "The Year Of the Built Environment City Talk" Beatriz Colomina said of Federation Square" It wears crazy-paving clothing all over it. What is it saying?" In this paper I focus on some of that "crazy paving", Paul Carter’s artwork Nearamnew, a work...

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Main Author: Jennifer Rutherford
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Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2005-08-01
Series:PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
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Online Access:http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/94
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spelling doaj-b3bb3615cf8341058b39d515ce4c6be92020-11-25T01:04:33ZengUTS ePRESSPORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies1449-24902005-08-0122Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of FederationJennifer RutherfordVisiting Australia for "The Year Of the Built Environment City Talk" Beatriz Colomina said of Federation Square" It wears crazy-paving clothing all over it. What is it saying?" In this paper I focus on some of that "crazy paving", Paul Carter’s artwork Nearamnew, a work that marks the ground of Federation Square as a site of historical, social and political negotiation. <i>Nearamnew, I argue, is a strangely joyous promise of a different kind of locality and a different way of thinking, writing and speaking into the impasses of Australian place.</i>http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/94space, Federation, Paul Carter, discourse, memory, post-colonialism
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Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation
PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
space, Federation, Paul Carter, discourse, memory, post-colonialism
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title Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation
title_short Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation
title_full Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation
title_fullStr Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation
title_full_unstemmed Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation
title_sort writing the square: paul carter's nearamnew and the art of federation
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series PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
issn 1449-2490
publishDate 2005-08-01
description Visiting Australia for "The Year Of the Built Environment City Talk" Beatriz Colomina said of Federation Square" It wears crazy-paving clothing all over it. What is it saying?" In this paper I focus on some of that "crazy paving", Paul Carter’s artwork Nearamnew, a work that marks the ground of Federation Square as a site of historical, social and political negotiation. <i>Nearamnew, I argue, is a strangely joyous promise of a different kind of locality and a different way of thinking, writing and speaking into the impasses of Australian place.</i>
topic space, Federation, Paul Carter, discourse, memory, post-colonialism
url http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/94
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