Author: Tom Finkelpearl
The MIT Press Massachusetts, 2001
By the 1990s, public art had evolved far beyond the lonely monument on an open plaza. Now public artists might design the entire plaza, create an event to alter the social dynamics of an urban environment, or help to reconstruct a neighborhood. Dialogues in Public Art presents a rich blend of interviews with the people who create and experience public art — from an artist who mounted three bronze sculptures in the South Bronx to the bureaucrat who led the fight to have them removed; from an artist who describes his work as a “cancer” on architecture to a pair of architects who might agree with him; from an artist who formed a coalition to convert twenty-two derelict row houses into an art center/community revitalization project to a young woman who got her life back on track while living in one of the converted houses.The twenty interviews are divided into four parts: Controversies in Public Art, Experiments in Public Art as Architecture and Urban Planning, Dialogues on Dialogue-Based Public Art Projects, and Public Art for Public Health. Tom Finkelpearl’s introductory essay provides a concise overview of changing attitudes toward the city as the site of public art.Interviewees : Vito Acconci, John Ahearn, David Avalos, Rufus L. Chaney, Mel Chin, Douglas Crimp, Paulo Freire, Andrew Ginzel, Linnea Glatt, Louis Hock, Ron Jensen, Kristin Jones, Maya Lin, Rick Lowe, Jackie McLean, Frank Moore, Jagoda Przybylak, Denise Scott Brown, Assata Shakur, Michael Singer, Elizabeth Sisco, Arthur Symes, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Robert Venturi, Krzysztof Wodiczko
ISBN: 978-0-262-56148-8
author: Shannon Jackson
Routledge, 2011.
Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance studies. The result is a brilliant analysis that not only incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses but also provides a practical understanding of social practice.
ISBN: 978-0-415-48600-2
ISBN: 978-0-415-48601-9
ISBN: 978-0-203-85289-7
ISBN: 978-0-415-48600-2ISBN: 978-0-415-48601-9ISBN: 978-0-203-85289-7
author: Shannon Jackson
Routledge, 2011.
Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance studies. The result is a brilliant analysis that not only incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses but also provides a practical understanding of social practice.
ISBN: 978-0-415-48600-2
ISBN: 978-0-415-48601-9
ISBN: 978-0-203-85289-7
ISBN: 978-0-415-48600-2ISBN: 978-0-415-48601-9ISBN: 978-0-203-85289-7
With Suspension, Márcio-André creates sounds live, using an electric violin suspended in space by elastic cords, microphones and other objects hung from the ceiling. Suspension, designed originally for the Eugenio Granell Museum in Spain, offers spatial streamlined relationship of the audience with poetry, approaching the art installation. The audience, inserted within the performance space, with his own body, gives different shapes to the sound produced. As each viewer is in a different relationship with the many speakers around the room, each person sees his own spectacle.
Márcio-André, writer, sound and visual artist was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978.
Author of four books of poetry and essays, he has collaborated with newspapers including O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de Minas and with numerous brazilian and international magazines, having his works translated into eight languages. He also has poems published in the anthologies. His work, both literary and performative, is studied in several countries like USA, Finland, Portugal and Iran.
He has taught advanced courses in creative writing and sound poetry at the University of Coimbra and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a translator, he published texts of Gherasim Luca, Gilles Yvain, Serge Pey, Mathieu Bénézet, Hagiwara Sakutaro and Forrest Gander. In 2008, he received the National Library Foundation Scholarship, for the book of essays Pética das Casas (Poetics of Houses) and in 2009, was resident poet in Monsanto, Portugal. He is also one editor with Confraria do Vento (Brasil/ Portugal) and curator of Cidade aTravessa, performative and literary event that takes place in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Talk about Hakim Bey’s T. A. Z. with Endre Lehel Paksi
Hakim Bey, american anarchist poet, philosopher, artist published his Volume titled T. A. Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone), which has become a basic writing all over the world for non-western, non-capitalist subcultures. The volume T. A. Z. includes three essay-groups, namely, Chaos: The broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, Ontological Anarchism and Temporary Autonomous Zone.
T. A. Z. is as much political as much it is poetic, that is, it is ours as long as we have let it go. It cannot come to being without motion. The inspirating essays are not only radical, but they have a strong cult-effect, which makes it worth to be interpreted time and again.
On the 16th of February, we try to read extracts from the first essay, considering it to be Chaos or Poetic Terrorism a kind of “atomos”. The behaviour of the individuum, that has just found its existence. The firs essay is the core of that train of thought, which might be used interpreting some trends of street art.
