Michel de Certeau :- A place is the order in accord which elements are distributed in
relationships of co-existence. It implies an indication of stability.
- A space exists when one takes into consideration, velocities and time variables. Thus space is composed of intersections of mobile elements. Space occurs as the effect produced by the operations that orientate it, situate it, temporalize it....
A space is a practised place. It has none of the stability of a proper place.
Marc Auge : - super-modernity produces non-places,spaces which are not themselves anthroplological places and which do not integrate the earlier places.
Place and non-place are rather like opposed polarities. The word 'space'
is used to describe the frequentation of places.There are spaces in which the individual feels himself to be a spectator without paying much attention to the spectacle.As if the position of the spectator were the essence of the spectacle....The traveller's space thus is the archetype of the non-place.
Lucy Lippard: - Place is a portion of land/town/cityscape seen from the inside, the resonance of a specific location that is known and familiar...the external world mediated through human subjective experience. a sense of place is the geographical component of the psychological need to belong somewhere, one antidote to a prevailing alienation.
Space is not a neutral container or void within which social interactions take place but rather an ideological product and instrument in itself.
Miwon Kwon: - The site is now structured intertexually rather than spatially, and its model is not a map but an itinerary, a fragmentary sequence of events and actions through spaces, that is, a nomadic narrative whose path is
articulated by the artist. This transformation of the site textualizes spaces and spatializes discourses. The definition of the site has been transformed from a physical location to a discursive vector -ungrounded, fluid, virtual.
The site becomes more than a place: - a repressed ethnic history, a
political cause, a disenfranchised social group.
It is not only the artwork that is not bound to the physical conditions of a place anymore, it is the artist-subject who is liberated from any enduring ties to local circumstances. Qualities of ambiguity and impermanence are taken as desired attributes.
James Meyer: - The functional site is a process, an operation occurring between sites, a mapping of institutional and discursive filiations and the bodies that move between them. It is an information site, a locus of overlapping text, photographs and video recordings, physical places and things....It is a temporary thing; a movement; a chain of meanings devoid of a particular focus.
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