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Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation

2005; UTS ePRESS; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5130/portal.v2i2.94

ISSN

1449-2490

Autores

Jennifer Rutherford,

Tópico(s)

Art, Politics, and Modernism

Resumo

Visiting Australia for "The Year Of the Built Environment City Talk" Beatriz Colomina said of Federation Square" It wears crazy-paving clothing all over it. What is it saying?" In this paper I focus on some of that "crazy paving", Paul Carter’s artwork Nearamnew, a work that marks the ground of Federation Square as a site of historical, social and political negotiation. Nearamnew, I argue, is a strangely joyous promise of a different kind of locality and a different way of thinking, writing and speaking into the impasses of Australian place.

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