ABSTRACT
The chapter outlines a definition of heterotopia that challenges entrenched notions of landscape and its imbrication with the perspective paradigm. A radical reformulation of what landscape is or does is required for early twenty-first-century conditions, one that contests engrained subject/object dichotomies and develops it from a background to human narratives and towards a co-subject that actively shapes how space and environment are constructed. Landscape is tightly enmeshed with the landscape image, and the artworks that are discussed take forms from outside the genre of landscape painting and reconfigure them. They are brought into the present as radical propositions, their reformulation as twenty-first-century artworks introducing difference to contemporary visuality – shaped by the sameness of digital image streams and globalised capitalism. The landscape as heterotopia becomes a discursive object that questions the construction of the image and of space, and puts forward new imaginings of the landscape idea.
