Frameworks, Artworks, Place

Tim Mehigan studied German literature and philosophy at Sydney, Trier and Freiburg universities, graduating in 1988 with a doctoral thesis on Heinrich von Kleist. He has published widely on literature and philosophy, notably on Kleist and Robert Musil. He has been foundation Chair of Languages at the University of Otago, New Zealand’s premier research university, since 2004, was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich in 1994 and 1995, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

• IntroductionTim MEHIGAN: The Space of PerceptionPerception, Perspective, RepresentationPeter LEECH: The Painting of Philosophy: Space, Perspectivalism, Representability and ConsciousnessRose WOODCOCK: The Anomalous Space of Pictures: Toward a Critique of Stereographic Virtual RealityJames MCARDLE: Shifting Ground in some Australian PhotographyBarry EMPSON: Schoenberg’s Hat: Objects in Musical SpaceLouise FAIRFAX: Seeing into Space: The Unconscious and SchematisationRepresentation, Consciousness, ImaginationPaul MONAGHAN: Bodies and Stairs: Modernist Theatrical Space and ConsciousnessKim ROBERTS: Bridge, Mirror, Labyrinth: Shaping the Intervals of Calvino’s Invisible CitiesEwen JARVIS: Cartographers of Consciousness: Imagined Library Spaces in the Work of Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco and Elias CanettiR.A. GOODRICH: Experiencing Kiefer’s “Scorched Earth” Landscapes: Acts of Re-Enactment, Acquaintance or Empathy?Constructions of Self in SpaceDirk DE BRUYN: Fractured Urban MemoriesKhadija Z. CARROLL: Curating Curiosity: Wonder’s Colonial PhenomenologyUli KRAHN: A Synthetic Theory of Self, Derived from MigrationAnn MCCULLOCH: Eternal Recurrence: Art, Pain and ConsciousnessNotes on Contributors