WEEK 09: Tuesday 21 November 2006
Exhibiting site-specific work: collaboration, documentation, process, final product.

assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:

case study: Public Phenomena Archive – Visual research into informal uses of public space

browse throught the varied projects.

Analyse PARK – Project by Deborah Stratman.
Deborah Stratman constructed her own mobile, parking lot attendant’s booth and documented the process in a photo-publication
download the booklet
http://www.temporaryservices.org/in_public_index.html

The project’s photo documentation
http://www.temporaryservices.org/parkmap1.html

text from booklet here
http://www.temporaryservices.org/parkbook.html

comment on the service in relation to land speculation and parking as an economic activity with spatial implications


Martha Rosler. Fragments of a metropolitan view point pp15-43 in If you lived here- the city in art, theory and social activism (READER]
Be prepared to discuss the several layers of the project from process to product and compare to your own journey, as a photographer writing about photography and the city.

Esther Shalev-Gerz: The Portraits of Stories – Skoghall, participation in “Public Safety”,
Skoghall, Sweden

http://www.alfredojaar.net/index1.html”>alfred jaar: The Skoghall Konsthall, 2000, participation in “Public Safety”,
Skoghall, Sweden

follow the link “recent projects”

DUE on class 10 | POST ON blog
Brief 7 [CONTINUATION]– Documenting: share the results of your work.
Project analysis: start reflecting on your work through writing. This text will accompany the documentation of your work.

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