Professor Paul Carter
BA MA (Oxon) DLitt (Melbourne)
Professor
Email: paulhc@unimelb.edu.au
Paul Carter is an interdisciplinary scholar whose books The Road to Botany Bay (1987) and The Lie of the Land (1996) established his international reputation as a pioneer of 'spatial history' and place-making. In addition, he has made an internationally-recognised contribution to the methodology of public space design in a number of leading papers and in a book, Material Thinking: Collaborative Realisation and the Art of Self-Becoming (2004). Paul also has a unique record of achievement as an artist working in the public sphere. Three prestigious public space design/public art commissions (Relay (1998-2000), Nearamnew (1999-2003) and Tracks (2000-2003)) have attracted international attention.
Awards:
2003 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Victoria and Tasmania) Award for Landscape Architecture for Federation Square plaza with Lab architecture studio, Bates Smart, Karresen Brands Landschapsarchitecten and Equinox Design Group.
Funded Research:
| Project: | Sustaining Places: Public Space Design in a Time of Loss |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Source: | ARC Discovery-Project grant |
| Project: | Ephemeral Architectures, cultural heritage, urban design, and the role of performance |
| Year: | 2001-2003 |
| Source: | ARC Senior Research Fellowship |
Publications:
Books:Carter PH. 2005. Mythform: The Making of Nearamnew at Federation Square. Carlton, Australia: Miegunyah Press (Melbourne UP).
Carter, P., Material Thinking: Collaborative Realisation and the Art of Self-Becoming, Melbourne, 2004.
Carter, P., Repressed Spaces: the Poetics of Agoraphobia, London, 2002.
Carter, P., Lost Subjects, Sydney, 1999.
Carter, P. and R. Lewis, Depth of Translation: the Book of Raft, Melbourne, 1999.
Carter, P., The Lie of the Land, London, 1996.
Carter, P., The Calling to Come, Sydney, 1996.
Carter, P., The Sound In-Between, Voice, Space, Performance, Sydney, 1992.
Carter, P., Living In A New Country: History, Travelling, Writing, London, 1992.
Carter, P., The Road to Botany Bay: an Essay in Spatial History, London, 1987.
Book Chapters:
Carter PH. 2005. Other Speak: The Poetics of Cultural Difference. In SMCQ McQuire & NP Papastergiadis (eds), Empires, Ruins + Networks: the Transcultural Agenda in Art. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press, pp. 240-263.
Carter PH. 2005. Reconciling Myths: The Metaphysics of Ecological Sustainability in Contemporary Australia. In R West-Pavlov (ed), Who's Australia? - Whose Australia ? Contemporary Politics, Society and Culture in Australia. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 173-188.
Carter, P., 'Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making', in S. Cairns (ed.), Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy, London, 2004, pp.82-98.
Carter, P., 'When the People Take to the Streets: Ersatz Culture's Contents and Discontents', in N. Papastergiadis (ed.), Complex Entanglements: Art, Globalisation and Cultural Difference, London , 2003, pp.205-220.
Carter, P., 'Ground Designs and the New Ichnology', in D. Trigger & G. Griffiths (eds), Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies, Hong Kong, 2003, pp.265-290.
Carter, P., 'Inscriptions as Initial Conditions: Federation Square ( Melbourne , Australia ) and the silencing of the mark', in B. David & M. Wilson (eds), Inscribed Landscapes: approaches to place marking and place making, Hawaii , 2002, 230-239.
Carter, P., 'Dark Writing: Memory's Bodily Inscription in the Light of History,' in S. Koop (ed.), Value Added Goods, Melbourne, 2002, pp.75-84.
Carter, P., 'To Let The Wind Through, architecture, heritage, performance', in T. K. Meng (ed.), Asian Architects , volume 2, Singapore , 2001, 28-37.
Carter, P., 'The Enigma of a Homeland Place , Mobilising the Papunya Tula Movement 1971-1972' in H. Perkins & H. Fink (eds), Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius, Sydney, 2000, pp.246-257.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Carter PH. 2005. The Empty Space is a Wall: The Role of Theatrical Translation in the Public Re-inscription of the Other. Performance Research. 10 (2):79-91.
Carter, P., 'Psittacorum Regio: Papageiein des Paradieses in der mythischen Topographie Australiens', Lettre Internationale, 75 (2003), pp.75-82.
Carter, P., 'Arcadian writing: two text into landscape proposals', Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 21.2 (2001), pp.137-147.
Public Artworks and Public Space Designs:
2000-2003: Tracks, a commission of the South Australian Public Art Program in association with the North Terrace Precinct Redevelopment Project.
2002: Solution, a commission of the property development company Lend Lease.
1998-2002: Nearamnew, a commission of the Public Art Program, Federation Square, Melbourne, located throughout the main plaza.
1999: Relay (with Ruark Lewis), a commission of the Olympic Coordination Authority, located at Fig Grove, Homebush Bay, Sydney.
Exhibitions:
Mythform: the Making of Nearamnew , Response Gallery, Ian Potter Centre for Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne, 27 June-7 September 2003.