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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2005-08-01
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| Series: | PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/portal/article/view/94 |
| Summary: | 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. 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1449-2490 |