WEEK 04: Tuesday 17 october 2006
Space, borders, territories > conceptual tool kit for spatial photography
browsing for class and to view on your own:
Alan Sekula>
fish story: exhibition installation
http://www.cgrimes.com/artist/sekula/as_exhibit_fish_story.htmlalan sekula on fish story:camera austria (1997)
http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:UwQxlW_WIpYJ:www.tba21.org/collection/artists/sekula_allan/pdf/SekulaA_FishStory_en.pdf+alan+sekula+fish+story&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=7&client=firefox-ahttp://www.lievengevaertcentre.be/sekula_symposium/index.htm
fish story: six-year transoceanic exploration of port cities and the shipping trade. His statement – which appears on one of the exhibition’s 26 text panels, themselves distributed among 105 large-format color photographs and two continuously running slide projectionshttp://www.tba21.org/collection/artists/?sekula_allan
fish story at Witte de With, Rotterdam
Message in a bottle – photography, Allan Sekula, traveling exhibition
within and in opposition to the traditions of realist documentary photography and photojournalism.
in “Fish Story,” panorama and detail ultimately serve as metaphors for the predominant modes – cognitive, linguistic, visual – in which instances of knowledge or accounts of the world have taken form.http://www.tba21.org/exhibitions/ex_0601.php
Allan Sekula explores nature – specifically, the sea – as a social space. Fish Story (1994) continues a longstanding investigation of what he calls “the imaginary and material geographies of the advanced capitalist world.” Sekula continues the historical artistic tradition of depicting harbors, ships and coastlines, demonstrating the history and future of maritime space not only in visual but also socio-economic terms.
Olivo Barbieri. Model world
Site Specific project in Rome, before moving on to Amman, Jordan; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and Shanghai, China.
distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760
Trevor Paglen. Expeditions to view clandestine military activity and document with photo the ways in which everyday landscapes are structured by hidden military activities.
http://www.paglen.com/pages/projects/nowhere/expeditions.htm
limit-photography” – landscape photos that simultaneously depict hidden presences while signifying the limits of vision.
Limit-telephotography involves photographing landscapes that cannot be seen with the unaided eye http://www.paglen.com/pages/projects/nowhere/photos_images.htm
Sean Snyder.
Manifesta 2, posters made of collages of photographs from specific places in Luxembourg and Gibraltar. http://www.manifesta.org/manifesta2/e/artistes/snyder.html
“Two Oblique Representations of a Given Place (Pyongyang)” (2001-2004)
juxtaposing a (re-worked) North-Korean propaganda film with amateur footage by an American tourist trying to document the city unofficially against the constant command to stop filming. http://www.populism2005.com/index.asp?sivu=38&menu1=8&menu2=20structural analyses that examine the urban environment on a case-by-case basis as narratives of a process of transformation. In these densely grouped systems of reference and interrelation, Snyder uses both self-produced and reprocessed archival material.
http://www.secession.at/art/2005_snyder_e.html
more projects on borders
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2006/06/borders.html
2 exhibitions dealing with space as power :
1-territories> the frontiers of utopia and other acts on the ground
http://www.konsthall.malmo.se.oas.funcform.se/o.o.i.s/2646
2-Hetero Utopia: Mapping the Urban Terrain
http://commonroom.info/bcfnma/futuresonic2006/image/2006/08/hetero-utopia-mapping-urban-terrain.html
Guard families cope in two dimensions `Flat Daddy’ cutouts ease longing
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/08/30/guard_families_cope_in_two_dimensions/
assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
Bo Grönlund (ed):
Lefebvre’s first ontological transformation of space
- Lived, Perceived and Conceived Space
http://hjem.get2net.dk/gronlund/Lived_space_etc.html
be prepared to discuss the differences between Lived space (Representational space), Perceived Space (Spatial practice), and Conceived Space (Representations of space), applying to your case study ( E&C)
CASE STUDY: Eyal Weizman. Introduction to The Politics of Verticality.2003. in photo-essays: the three-dimensional battle over the West Bank:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-politicsverticality/article_801.jsp
be prepared to discuss the three dimensional space of the conflict and the jerusalem as a model for other cities in conflict
as teh opendemocracy photogalleries are not working you can find photos of the settlements in peacenow site
http://www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=61&pos=2&docid=1520
alternative (if opendemocracy pages dont download):
The Art of War
he IDF’s strategy of ‘walking through walls’ involves a conception of the city as not just the site but also the very medium of warfare – a flexible, almost liquid medium that is forever contingent and in flux.
[ military] reference such canonical elements of urban theory as the Situationist practices of dérive (a method of drifting through a city based on what the Situationists referred to as ‘psycho-geography’) and détournement (the adaptation of abandoned buildings for purposes other than those they were designed to perform).
http://www.frieze.com/feature_single.asp?f=1165
Israeli government censors architectural exhibitionhttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/isra-s16.shtml
photos by Milutin Labudovic (aerial photography of the jewish mountain top settlements)
http://www.wdw.nl/event.php?act_id=19
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/9/wall.php
compare with WB by Sophie Ristelhueber (available in the Perry Library) (ground level photography of the land scars and lobstructions) http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/mahg/musee/cde/ristelhueberexpo2.html
http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=138157&which=&aid=424045218&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com
http://www.mamco.ch/artistes_fichiers/R/ristelhueber.html
DUE on class 5 | POST ON blog
Brief 3- mapping : articulate a photo-narrative / diagram about the perceived conditions and the imagined answer
statement 4 (300-500w): Document /discuss it in your blog
