Interempty Space

John Grech

Artist Statement

Interempty Space - The Global City focuses on the city of Berlin as a precinct of the Global City. It seeks to generate a sense of the city while raising debates concerning the roles of citizenship, migration, and tourism in the mediated city. Finally, however, it raises the question of how the virtual city can be occupied, and brought to life by the visitor to the site, and what role the individual can play in realising the global city no matter where they live and comprise that city in the world today.

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Biography

John Grech is an artist, writer, and researcher. He has produced and exhibited, published, and broadcast work in a range of forms and media, from documentary to fiction, in Australia, Europe, the US, and Canada. John gained his PhD, titled "The Work of Art in the Age of Global Culture" in 2006 from the University of Technology, Sydney, although he conducted much of PhD research while living in Amsterdam where he was associated with Thomas Elsaesser, Mieke Bal, and Wim Staat at the University of Amsterdam between 2000 and 2004. In 2006 John returned to live in Australia where he was employed as Lecturer in Writing and Media Production, Department of International Communications, Macquarie University, Sydney until mid 2007. John returned to live in Europe in 2007 where he and his partner are expecting their second child in November.