Space, Place and Geographers

A Response in film:

Be-longing,

Unwind Desire:

Prayer Place -

A creature touching down

Here.

Undress

Diverse bodies

Vibrating

Waiting to be held

Here.

Where do we sit firmly in the world?

A million suns

Turning

Flowing Rivers

Rooted

Here.

Pulled into

Being a place

Protecting the Dreamers

Here.

Notes

Touching Space, Inhabiting Space, Empty Space, Flowing Space, Being Space.

Space opens out (desire, possibility, potential, unknown)

Space closed in (protective withdrawal, familiar, known?)

When/Where do we sit firmly in this world?

Distance / Proximity / fragmentation / consolidation/ turning towards/ turning away.

Desire / Longing – The world is waiting – A million suns spinning – ‘Don’t let me be lonely’

Dynamizing Space – you can’t hold them still – pulled in by place

Tones and textures, traces, threads, inter-relations, trajectories, directions, process of being changed / made, ongoing-ness,

Who’s voice is heard here?

Simultaneity. Specificity. Emotion and Affect.

Permission to take space -

Be it – occupy - reach into it – have it (own it?? Problematic!)

Grounded organic embedded natural

Weather (climate / wind / clouds/ empty/ full/ obscured/ transparent)

Flow (river systems/ root systems/ rhizomatic)

Stasis (staying settled, rock moving ever so slowly)

Travelling (driving / flying/ walking….)

Place: being a place – home / rooted/ feet/ inside/outside – ‘the house protects the dreamer’ (Boris Groys, The Loneliness of the Project)

Ancient Space (timeless/ all time)

Orientation – diverse / flattening – zigzag - surface - edge/ borders/ boundaries

Bodies restricted – heteronormative cultural hegemony space – to free the body, to un-perform / unclench / unwind / queer the body

Online / digital Space – flat, no movement/ travel/distance – everywhere and nowhere.

Pandemic – disorientation / re-orientation - Global 'spinning' - Questions of safety. questioning our futur / uncertainty / precipitates evolution.