Felix Wilson

Honours Project Overview

The project Waste in Place: The McRobies Gully Tip as Landscape

will use representations of the McRobies Gully landfill site in

South Hobart to explore contemporary understandings of

landscape and its relationship to the aesthetics of human and

non-human relations.

Humans, animals, birds and others interact in ways that challenge

conventional perceptions of ecology on the landfill site. Issues

relating to ecology and landscape representation are particularly

contested in Tasmania and this site affords possibilities for

recalibrating shared aesthetic understandings of waste and the

relations between humans and non-humans.

Arman (b. Armand Pierre Fernandez) France, b. 1928 Poubelle 1, 1960 Household garbage in a plastic box, 20,5 x 28,1 x 5,1 inches Source: http://www.arman-studio.com/RawFiles/000852.html

Chris Jordan USA, b. 1963 Untitled (from series Midway: Message from the Gyre), Photographic print, dimensions unknown.  Source: http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000478%2019x25

Edward Burtynsky Canada, b. 1955 China Recycling #5, Phone Dials, Zeguo, Zhejiang Province, 2004 Photographic print, dimensions unknown. Source: http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/China/

Pieter Hugo South Africa b. 1976 Aissah Salifu, 2010 Photographic print, dimensions unknown. Source: http://www.pieterhugo.com/permanent-error/

Sandra Selig Australia, b. 1972 Rivers recording the universe (Tokyo), 2008-9 (Installation view) Installation, dimensions variable Source: http://www.milanigallery.com.au/artwork/rivers-recording-universe-tokyo-5

Chu Yun China, b. 1977 Constellation (installation view), 2006 Installation, dimensions variable Source: http://www.chuyun.net/

Corvus, engraving from the 17th century Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia star atlas by Johannes Hevelius. http://hubblesource.stsci.edu/sources/illustrations/constellations/

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