Publication Details 240mm x 170mm, 32pp text + 4pp cover, including 15pp images, paperback, saddle stitched. ISBN 978-1-922361-21-9
Author and/or Editor name/s Authors: Angela Goddard and Wouter Davidts. Copy editor: Linda Michael
Author and/or Editor bio/s Angela Goddard is a writer, curator and Director of Griffith University Art Museum, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland College of Art. She joined the University in 2015, and was previously Curator of Australian Art, QAGOMA. She is also Chair of University Art Museums Australia and a Board Member of SheiIa: A Foundation for Women in Visual Art.
Wouter Davidts lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning and the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies of Ghent University. There he recently established ‘KB45’, an interdisciplinary research group on art in Belgium since 1945.
Year of publication 2021
Publisher Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
Abstract In the book ‘Species of Spaces’ (Espèces d’espaces, 1974) French novelist and philosopher Georges Perec elaborates on the predicament of understanding space. “The space of our lives is neither continuous, nor infinite, neither homogeneous, nor isotropic.” To get a better sense of space, Perec argues, the challenge is not so much “to reinvent space, … but to question it, or even simpler, to read it.” The exhibition Round About or Inside aims to explore how artists from different geographic and cultural contexts might contribute to Perec’s attempt to map and describe the manifold spaces and sites that mark our lives. This publication includes a co-authored essay by Angela Goddard and Wouter Davidts entitled Round About or Inside: Spatialities of Worldmaking. It asks to what extent do art and artists partake in defining, shaping and ultimately understanding the spatialities of worldmaking?
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