The project will use representations of the McRobies Gully landfill site in South Hobart to explore understandings of landscape and its relationship to human and non-human interactions. At the landfill site, humans, animals, birds and others interact in ways that challenge conventional perceptions of ecology. Issues around ecology and landscape representation are contested in Tasmania, and this site provides an opportunity to recalibrate shared understandings of waste and relations between humans and non-humans.

1. Felix Wilson
Honours Project Overview

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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/

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

13. 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

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

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

33. Questions / feedback
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