Ian Grosvenor
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Martin Lawn
University of Cardiff, United Kingdom
António Nóvoa
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Kate Rousmaniere
Miami University, U.S.A.
Harry Smaller
York University, Canada
 

… spaces have multiplied, been broken up and have diversified. There are spaces today of every kind and every size, for every use and every function. To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to
bump yourself…
Space is a doubt: I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. It’s never mine, never given to me, I have to conquer it.
My spaces are fragile: time is going to wear them away, to destroy them.
Nothing will any longer resemble what was, my memories will betray me, oblivion will infiltrate my memory, I shall look at a few old yellowing
photographs with broken edges without recognizing them.
Space melts like sand running through one’s fingers. Time bears it away and leaves me only shapeless shreds: To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.

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