With sources that range from British statistician and economist William Stanley Jevons’ first attempts at plotting statistical data onto a Cartesian coordinate system, to archival photographs of Welsh working-class boxing heroes, Ibghy & Lemmens simultaneously highlight and question the codes and conventions that organise these spaces, and in so doing, point to the underlying layers that constitute the context in which these observations are located.
Accompanied by a small publication which further explores the connections between photography, statistics, industrialization, boxing, and the rise of econometrics, The Space of Observation builds on ideas and research Ibghy & Lemmens have been developing since 2008, which aim to actively re-theorize economic action and reclaim economy as a site of human invention and intervention.
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Spaces of Observation
By Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens
ISBN:978-0-9865732-1-7