Here are a few examples of these works, however none of these are involved with the show we are organising they are just examples.
" Interspaces, illusory sites, ‘places beyond all places’ –
Beyoğlu is a site of utopias realised. These, within this Istanbul quarter,
form the ‘heterotopia,’ giving this work its title.
This disorder within an urban milieu, which in its
fragmentariness creates a multitude of possible new alignments, has been
designated as a ‘heterotopia’ in Michel Foucault’s work on spatial theory; I
borrow this concept for my work.
"I am looking at heterotopias right now. It is a concept in
human geography elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe places
and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions. These are spaces of
otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical
and mental. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space)) I am using the
term to describe an idyllic home – an escape – situated in a landscape that may
or may not physically exist and is nostalgically remembered from past
experience, a dream or a yearned for place seen in a lifestyle magazine.
I utilise town planning maps to represent order,
restrictions and boundaries imposed on the natural topography and how these
artificially created limits reflect on the economic value of the land and the
type of people, housing and industry that can be found in these places. In
contrast to the drawn planning lines, abstracted housing and landscapes
represent people’s dreams, realities and aspirations that may exist in these
physical or mental heterotopias."
" Interspaces, illusory sites, ‘places beyond all places’ –
Beyoğlu is a site of utopias realised. These, within this Istanbul quarter,
form the ‘heterotopia,’ giving this work its title.
It is not based on creation of a concrete image of an actual
geographic place. Instead, the work focuses on the fascination with Beyoğlu as
a place which poses ever new questions, where dreams are born as quickly as
they are shattered, a site of incomprehensibility, of permanent and collective
limbo, of countless contradictions.
This disorder within an urban milieu, which in its
fragmentariness creates a multitude of possible new alignments, has been
designated as a ‘heterotopia’ in Michel Foucault’s work on spatial theory; I
borrow this concept for my work.
In Beyoğlu, a space is created which makes its own as well
as its inhabitants’ structure its internal ordering principle. Thus, not only
this ‘dense’ urban space, in which minorities are caught up in both senses
(absorbed and captured), but also – and especially – the transsexual physical
body is transformed into a heterotopia. In this way, the transsexual body
becomes – within a heterotopia – a place from which one cannot escape, a
‘pitiless topia’. "
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SUE BEYER
"I am looking at heterotopias right now. It is a concept in
human geography elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe places
and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions. These are spaces of
otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical
and mental. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotopia_(space)) I am using the
term to describe an idyllic home – an escape – situated in a landscape that may
or may not physically exist and is nostalgically remembered from past
experience, a dream or a yearned for place seen in a lifestyle magazine.
I utilise town planning maps to represent order,
restrictions and boundaries imposed on the natural topography and how these
artificially created limits reflect on the economic value of the land and the
type of people, housing and industry that can be found in these places. In
contrast to the drawn planning lines, abstracted housing and landscapes
represent people’s dreams, realities and aspirations that may exist in these
physical or mental heterotopias."
For Sue Beyers full blog please click here.
