WEEK 03: Tuesday 10 october 2006
Photographic practice as public service and concrete intervention >
browsing for class and to view on your own:
Stephen Willats Brentford Towers 1985 an installation of photo and text panels inside the 22 storey tower block Harvey House in Brentford, West London/ multiclothing project
http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/past/85/85_willats.htm
http://www.showstudio.com/projects/multiclothing/start.html
Alison Marchant – Charged Atmospheres
http://www.uwic.ac.uk/fineart-research/staffdocs/am/amtxt.htm
Big Hope: Erhardt Miklós / Dominic Hislop. insideout. 40 disposable cameras given to homeless people in Budapest. http://reroute.c3.hu/bighope/insideout/index.html
Whereyouare is an experiment in the collective documentation of neighborhoods.
http://whereyouare.org/
yellow arrow. Collective MAAP of the world
http://yellowarrow.net/index2.php
mapping britain’s hidden history
http://www.yourhistoryhere.com/
sosok: emergency kit for former biscuit town. View publication
http://www.msdm.org.uk/sos_ok/
http://www.msdm.org.uk/sos_ok/guide.html
Public services exhibition
http://www.msdm.org.uk/2005/10/public-services-exhibition-at-pavel.html
assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
Docklands Community Poster Project 1981 – 1991
http://www.cspace.org.uk/cspace/archive/docklands/dock_arch.htm
Be prepared to discuss the intervention in the context of the urban redevelopement of the area
Case study: City Repair
http://www.inthefield.info/doublebook.html
Case Study: WochenKlausur Art and Sociopolitical Intervention
http://www.wochenklausur.at/texte/arbeitsweise_en.htm
browse through WochenKlausur’s projects and be prepared to discuss how the group develops and realizes proposals – small-scale but very concrete – for improving sociopolitical deficits.list their working principles. Discuss differences between representational and interventive strategies
exercise: create an E&C tag at whereyouare and upload images to flickr for it
study yellowarrow project and think how you could develop an alternative to E&C based on what you learnt from it & whereyouare
DUE on class 4 | POST ON blog
Brief 2- [CONTINUATION] 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)
