A LIMINAL PUBLICATION
Individual/Group Project
Autumn 2023
Autumn 2023
Understanding the visual culture of liminality through a printed publication and an audio composition.
My exploration into liminality started with a curiosity for the widespread liminal space meme.
Images depicting a variety of eerie and nostalgic spaces, but universally agreed to capture a similar liminal feeling by complete strangers on the internet.
In my research to understand what made this liminal sensation was, I came acorss two overlapping explanations.
“The core of liminality is the exploration of context, visiting a place outside
of its pre-designed context. Experiencing reality in a new context, whether that be the conditions, emptiness of place or altering reality itself. These spaces show the power of context. A truly insignificant place can be wildly
different with a simple change of perspective.”
- Polygon Donut
- Polygon Donut
SOURCE 2
“Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity”
Marc Augé
1992
“Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity”
Marc Augé
1992
“The space of a nonplace
creates neither singular identity nor relations;
only solitude, and
similitude.” (Augé 103)
Our contextual relationship to spaces of supermodernity derive from the function that they play. A hospital, school or highway are not places we visit to visit the place
themselves. Rather, we visit them for the function they serve. These places in a new context, such as a school after hours or an abandoned mall, stands out as abnormal and questions why we are there if not for the intended function.
Our contextual relationship to spaces of supermodernity derive from the function that they play. A hospital, school or highway are not places we visit to visit the place
themselves. Rather, we visit them for the function they serve. These places in a new context, such as a school after hours or an abandoned mall, stands out as abnormal and questions why we are there if not for the intended function.
To capture this liminal feeling, I created liminal space images of my own based on my research. Leaning into the distortion of early AI image generation technology, I extended images from
“de Architect” magazine, leaning into the alienating effect of modern architecture which Marc Augé recognized.
Images from de Architect
AI Extended Images
Many of the original images I translated into night scenes, exploring the temporal relationship modern space hold. Inspired by the children’s book “Nachts” by Wolf Erlbruch by I created a surreal narrative following the images, imagining an existential nighttime walk through these desolate scences.
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