The fear of place and the manifestation of this in contemporary art is the territory for TOPOPHOBIA. As an anxiety disorder, this phobia is understood as an irrational dread of certain places or situations, yet, considered as a cultural phenomenon topophobia connects us to the existential human question of how each of us finds our place in the world. This book contributes to current debates on freedom and the culture of fear. The artists and writers featured take a look at place and space as threatened or threatening. They explore themes as wide as stage fright, the virtual, environmental decay, urban dread, and technologies of disappearance, and their part in the contemporary production of spatial anxiety.
The book includes essays by Caterina Albano, Thomas D Trummer, Eggebert-and-Gould and a short story by Leslie Forbes. It also features full-colour artists’ pages by Anne Eggebert, Matthias Einhoff, David Ferrando Giraut, Polly Gould, Marja Helander, Uta Kogelsberger, Almut Rink,Abigail Reynolds, Emily Speed and Louise K Wilson, with artists' texts written by Polly Gould.
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