Of Other Spaces

Taking an essay by Michel Foucault as a departure point, this book expands upon an exhibition devoted to exploring the social relations and cultural conditions ingrained within architectural space.

Authored by James Voorhies

Columbus College of Art & Design, Bureau for Open Culture, 2009
128 pages
8.25 x 5 inches

Designed by Nate Padavick

With contributions by Mary Jo Bole, Michael Brown, Alain Bublex, Robert Buck, Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Candida Höfer, Guillaume Leblon, Laura Lisbon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Laurent Montaron, Maryléne Negro, TJ Norris and Scott Wayne Indiana, Sarah Schönfeld, Maya Schweizer, Suzanne Silver, Christian Tomaszewski, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jane and Louise Wilson

Made possible with funding and staff of Columbus College of Art & Design with grants from Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, and a Curatorial Research Grant from Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; realized within my responsibilities as Director of Exhibitions at Columbus College of Art & Design

 

The exhibition and ideas offered in this book falls within a long discourse on the sociocultural conditions embedded in different spaces, institutional and otherwise. The concept of “other spaces” was inspired by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, specifically his 1967 essay Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias.

Foucault’s essay is reprinted in this book.

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