WEEK 02: Tuesday 3 October 2006
Situationism: walking and the city as an urban drift
browsing for class and to view on your own:
The Naked City. A psychogeographical map
http://www.remue.net/IMG/jpg/Guy_Debord_1.jpg
Yayoi Kusama. Walking Piece, 1966 (Diaprojektion)
http://www.sammlung-goetz.de/content.php?lang=en&pn=exh&m=view&id=35&state=past
Adrian Piper. 1973 alter-ego, the Mythic Being, who became the basis of a series of performances and photo-based works http://events.uchicago.edu/campusevents/eventdetail.phtml?eventid=44713
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/8676
Valie Export. Body Configurations series http://www.fotohof.or.at/exibhist/detail.cfm?id=7
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/abrundung/
Francis Alys. I spend a lot of time walking around the city… The initial concept for a project often emerges during a walk.
http://www.lissongallery.com/artistDisplay.asp?ArtistID=21
Hamilton Fulton characterises himself as a ‘walking artist’.
http://www.hamish-fulton.com/index.htm
Janet Cardiff. An audio walk in Central Park
http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/05/cardiff/cardiff-05.html
In Real Time. participatory work in which visitors walk through spaces in the Carnegie Library guided by an audio and visual narrative presented on a hand-held video camera and through headphones
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/cardiff.htm
Alex Villar, upward mobility
http://www.iniva.org/assets/archive/images/large/VILL_ALEX_006.jpg
Drawing from interdisciplinary theoretical sources and employing video-performance, installation and photography, a practice that concentrates on matters of social space
http://www.re-title.com/artists/Alex-Villar.asp
the walking project – iprojethi yohambo
http://walksquawk.blogs.com/
An Exeter Mis-Guide .walks developed in conjunction with Exeter citizens, creating a variety of perspectives on the way we negotiate the city.
http://www.mis-guide.com/mg/mgexetermain.html
Platform. Critical Walks. Walks around contemporary corporate culture.
http://www.platformlondon.org/fitc.htm
Assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
Walking in the City: Spatial Practices in Art, from the Mid-1960s to the Present
Familiarise yourself with the work of Valerie Tevere, Alex Villar, Simon Leung, and Kim Soo-ja and the way they engage with the historic strategies of resisting and negotiating regulated space developed by Valie Export, Yayoi Kusama and Adrian Piper.
http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/dawseybrookhart.htm
Psychogeography
Guy Debord.Theory of the Dérive. Internationale Situationiste #2 (December 1958)
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/~pss1su/lecturenotes/documents/derive.html
describe the situationist methods of dérive (drifting) and distinguish it from the classical notions of the journey and the stroll.
Conflux is a festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. Read some of their projects’ descriptions.
http://confluxfestival.org/
DUE on class 3 | POST ON blog
Brief 2- researching: identify the situation and the users group for your intervention
statement 2 (300-500w): post it to your blog, with images and text- captions, tagging, commentary, technical, etc)
some helpful sites for your E&C research
Local History Library
http://www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/LocalStudiesLibrary
wikipedia. E&C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_and_Castle
Elephant and Castle to get £1.5bn makeover
http://society.guardian.co.uk/urbandesign/story/0,,1152677,00.html
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Status: Regeneration threatens this ancient artifact.
http://www.geocities.com/londondestruction/elephant.html
Multiplex unveils Elephant skyscraper plan
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1890
Elephant & Castle’s subways are to be removed and replaced with street level pedestrian crossings
http://www.into.org.uk/displayNews.cfm?NewsID=9977
Re-housing Programme. An introduction to the rehousing process
http://www.elephantandcastle.org.uk/home/heygateprogramme/rehousing-programme
Heygate Estate, Walworth, c. 1973
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/southwark/walworth/heygate-estate.htm
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