Jordana Gurney
Abstract: Situated in the heart of the city with a near constant flow of working professionals, students, tourists and locals, the St. James Theatre has sat, overlooked and unused for years, a far cry from its previous life as a part of Auckland’s social scene. My aim is to reintroduce this historic landmark back into... Continue Reading →
Reading - A Global Sense of Place by Doreen B. Massey Can you think of any recent geopolitical events that are examples of, or the result of what Massey calls a "longing" for a time when "places were (supposedly) inhabited by coherent and homogeneous communities"? (146-47)Can you think of any examples from the more distant... Continue Reading →
Exercise: Using the keywords I selected for the focus of my annotations I began to see a trend in what I was questioning and looking at in the readings. From this I was able to make a connection to my studio practice and create a critical question and statement that helps me to explore this... Continue Reading →
Reading - Wiggle Room by Sara Ahmed Who is Sara Ahmed?- Independent feminist scholar and writer, until 2016 professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University London, she works at the intersection of feminist, queer and race studies.How does Ahmed begin the text? If you noted down the 'sections' of this piece of writing... Continue Reading →
Exercise 1: Write about the space we are working in (home, studio, etc) and define how we see this space in the context of wiggle room. Initial paragraph: A home of three people with spaces of varying amounts of wiggle room. The living area, where we can all work and wiggle in our own space... Continue Reading →
Annotation One: How to Encounter a Puddle – Anny Li Li, A. (2018) How to Encounter a Puddle. Retrieved from: https://volume-1.org/Triple-Canopy-How-to-Encounter-a-Puddle Keywords: Documentation, evidence, temporary, infiltrate Anny Li begins to document the puddles she sees as she walks around NYC after noticing that they contain mysterious liquids. Through daily documentation, she is able to view... Continue Reading →
Reading - Radical Interiority: Playboy Architecture 1953-1979 by Beatriz Colomina How does Colomina say Playboy Magazine affected reader's tastes or desires for interior space?- Turns interiors into a masculine space, made it appropriate for men to be interested, more seductive than playmates, created a cycle of desire.Who were some prominent Modernist designers? What do their... Continue Reading →
Reading - Politics of Installation by Boris Groys How does Groys describe the relationship between the "field or art" and the "art market"?- Artwork identified as a commodity.- They're equivalent to each other.What is the main two concepts that he seeks to differentiate through an "analysis of difference" at the bottom of page one?- Differentiate... Continue Reading →
Ecology, Landscape, Nature Readings: Reading and Writing the Site by John Dixon Hunt, The Orbits of Earthly Bodies by Rebecca Solnit and an excerpt from The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton What is the great irony about living or holidaying in the countryside that Solnit points out in the first few paragraphs of her article?-... Continue Reading →
Ecology, Landscape, Nature Readings: Reading and Writing the Site by John Dixon Hunt, The Orbits of Earthly Bodies by Rebecca Solnit and an excerpt from The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton What is "second nature", according to the roman writer Cicero? What other term could be used as a synonym for "second nature", according to... Continue Reading →
Spatial Design 