I am fascinated by Proffesor Jane Rendell's approach to the activation of space in an artistic practice by translating a post‐structuralist approach to language. For my own investigation of virtual space and language I decided to separate out the terms virtual and space and define one and then the other. I follow with a quick summary of Rendell’s definition of critical spacial practice from her keynote at the one Day Sculpture Symposium earlier this year.
•Jane Rendell highlights the anthropologist Micheal de Certeau in the argument that “space is a practiced place”
•According to Ferdinand de Saussure and de Certeau language is made up of complex rules. The governing rules are called ‘langue’, while the act of actively engaging with these rules or ‘speaking’ is referred to as ‘parole’.
•Rendell considers that place is fixed and with the addition of practice, a temporary, conflicted, ensemble is constructed – space. Rendel considers space is a practiced place, and that space is activated by language.
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