In response to a question about the issue of 'place' in The Museum Box Project brief and by way of an introduction as to where my box might travel and the expanded concept of place it might become:
Place as 'specific location' is the material landscape/site that is the prompt from which each individual engagement with the box project has ensued (somewhere tangible, somewhere that could be plotted on a traditional map - eg the place where Sheila found her rock, the place where Linda's bedroom was located)
Place as 'somewhere physical or psychological etc' (place as extended concept) is where and how each person's engagement with the original 'specific location' progresses (maybe it remains as expanded physical location but quite possibly it extends to somewhere psychological as well)
For instance, my box will re-present a mountain called S'Airde Beinn on Mull (place as specific location) but once reconfigured it will contain a multitude of memories, associations and elemental essences (place as expanded concept, as both physical and psychological, memorial and factual)
Please add your own ideas/responses to the project here ...
suze
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