Traversing the zoo : a studio research project examining thresholds between nature and spatial practice (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

This exegesis constructs the documentary component of the studio research project: Traversing the Zoo: A Studio Research Project Examining Thresholds between Nature and Spatial Practice. This research aims to investigate the spatial constructs of the Zoo and the man-made nature environments within through the processes of writing and making. Examination of the Zoo's spatial constructs ignites discourse surrounding the threshold as an in-between liminal space of transition, separate from the inside and outside spaces. This threshold identifies itself as the place where the viewer is positioned, engaging with dialectics surrounding the way we view through investigating the history of optics and the power of viewing. This is discussed via Michel Foucault's writing on the panoptic and Margaret Olin's writing on the 'gaze'. The 'inside' space ofthe enclosure is defined as the 'other' space through Foucault's writing on heterotopias, and the subject...

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