Location of The "Trans" in Contemporary Art →Worlding place entity: E53 Place
Class E53 Place is used here to model geographical areas and locations. Mapping this content type to this class only models place based on the immaterial, mathematical area as defined with a frame of reference and as such it is not appropriate to express the physicality of space which is important. Also this class does not include temporality of places which is critical in a cultural context. A different model could make use of class ‘E27 Site’ which relates to the mathematical notion of E53 Places through property ‘P156 occupies’. That alternative solution is more complex but models place more accurately albeit using more than one class. Another problem with the concept of geometrical place is the fact that boundaries which do not exist in the physical world are needed to define it. This brings up questions around the agency of the people creating these boundaries, naming them and the problem of abstraction in maps which is reductive.
3150 rue Jean-Brillant
Montreal QC H3H 2P9
Canada
Location of The Region: Dialogues on the power and precarity of artist self-organisation in the Asia-Pacific →Worlding place entity: E53 Place
Class E53 Place is used here to model geographical areas and locations. Mapping this content type to this class only models place based on the immaterial, mathematical area as defined with a frame of reference and as such it is not appropriate to express the physicality of space which is important. Also this class does not include temporality of places which is critical in a cultural context. A different model could make use of class ‘E27 Site’ which relates to the mathematical notion of E53 Places through property ‘P156 occupies’. That alternative solution is more complex but models place more accurately albeit using more than one class. Another problem with the concept of geometrical place is the fact that boundaries which do not exist in the physical world are needed to define it. This brings up questions around the agency of the people creating these boundaries, naming them and the problem of abstraction in maps which is reductive.
Canada
49.2638614, -123.09868455702
Gesang di Lahan Gersang (Living a life in the barren land) →Worlding publication entity: E73 Information Object
Class E73 Information Object is used here to model a publication such as a book that is the subject of discussion during an education course or contains information about an exhibition. The scope note of E73 Information Object requires objectively recognizable items and does not allow for intertextual openness, for example fluxus spatial poems. The scope note could be extended to include concepts of story-telling simply by including next to "jokes, texts, etc." the term "stories" and including next to "human memory", the term "story-telling". This would make the scope note more inclusive in terms of indigenous story-telling traditions. Publications are modelled as instances of ‘E73 Information Object’ in the context of being discussed in an educational course and elsewhere. This is limiting the capacity of the publication in relation to reception which should be modelled as a separate instance of E7 Activity.
Gesang di Lahan Gersang (Living a life in the barren land) →Worlding appellation entity: E41 Appellation
Class E41 Appellation is used here to model names of things including places and people. The scope note of E41 Appellation explains that names are not considered as meaningful but as conventions. A name is used by convention even if there is a meaning attached to it. It is possible that names mentioned in the WPC database also hold a meaning which is significant for the thing they refer to as part of its identity. If this is the case, then this class and content type cannot capture that meaning.