Phantom writing

Journal Article (2024)
Author(s)

M.P. Hirschbichler (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)

Research Group
Theory, Territories & Transitions
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.59490/footprint.18.1.6947
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Research Group
Theory, Territories & Transitions
Issue number
1
Volume number
18
Pages (from-to)
109-122
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Abstract

In this visual essay I present a body of artistic work done within informal urban and suburban heritage sites in Kyoto. Through the media of text, photography, film and site-specific painting, my works from the cycle Spirit Grounds engage with these sites involving material physical aspects as well as beliefs, fictions, and more-than-human beings. Building upon this, I propose ‘phantom writing’ or ‘phantasmography’ as a situated, multidisciplinary and multisensory approach aimed at understanding and designing contemporary places, landscapes and environments, acknowledging and mediating the agency of diverse phantoms and phantasms.