Situated Selves: Group Show

Casey distinguishes between “place” and “space”, arguing that place is fundamentally tied to embodied experience and lived reality, while space is more abstract and detached. He explores how place shapes our identity, memory, and relationship with the world, advocating for a “place-based” ethic that recognizes our embeddedness in specific locations.

In contrast to modernist and Cartesian traditions that privilege space as empty, uniform, and measurable, Casey positions place as irreducibly lived: textured by affect, temporality, and cultural significance. “We are not only in place,” he argues, “but of it”.