Önder Özengi (ed.): Relative Positions (2011) [English/Turkish]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, autonomy, contemporary art, critique, institutional critique, space, theory
This book is based on the April 2009’s exhibition which took place in Suriye passage, Istanbul. The exhibition was focused on creating a temporary art institution during 15 days.
The book consists of the articles departing from art works produced for the exhibition, transcriptions of the talks organized around the exhibition and articles that extend the issues and debates focused by the exhibition itself.
Contributors: Ahmet Ogut, Ashkan Sepahvand, Borga Kanturk, Boris Buden, Brian Holmes, Burak Arikan, Caner Aslan, Deniz Gul, November Paynter, Onder Ozengi, Pelin Tan, Ulus Atayurt.
With works by Borga Kanturk, Inci Furni, Kanalkayıt (Can Altay, Basak Akcakaya, Emrah Kavlak, Taylan Hacirustemoglu, Deniz Erdem, Cagri Kucuksayrac, Pelin Gure, Gulsah Taskin, Sevgi Aka, Nesli Yagli, Kaan Birol), Merve Sendil, Pelin Tan, Vahit Tuna.
Published in October 2011, Istanbul
ISBN 978-605-5612-016
Rosalyn Deutsche: Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (1996)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, art criticism, public space, space, urban design, urban planning, urbanism
“Since the 1980s a great deal has been written on the relationship between art, architecture, and urban planning and design, on the one hand, and the politics of space on the other. In Evictions Rosalyn Deutsche investigates—and protests against—the dominant uses of this interdisciplinary discourse.
Deutsche argues that critics on both the left and the right invoke harmonious images of space that conceal and justify exclusions—whether the space in question is a city, park, institution, exhibition, identity, or work of art. By contrast, she calls for a democratic spatial critique that takes account of the conflicts that produce and maintain all spaces, including the space of politics itself.
Evictions examines how aesthetic and urban ideologies were combined during the last decade to legitimize urban redevelopment programs that claimed to be beneficial to all, yet in reality tried to expunge traditional working classes from the city. Combining critical aesthetic theory about the social production of art with critical urban theory about the social production of space, Deutsche exposes this unspoken agenda. She then responds to a new alliance of prominent urban and cultural scholars who use critical spatial theory to protect traditional left political projects against the challenges posed by new radical cultural practices.
In her critique, Deutsche mobilizes feminist and postmodern ideas about the politics of visual representation and subjectivity. She also intervenes in debates taking place in art, architecture, and urban studies about the meaning of public space, and places these struggles within broader contests over the definition of democracy. Opposing the nostalgic belief that democracy’s survival demands the recovery of a once unified public sphere, Deutsche contends that conflict, far from undermining public space, is a prerequisite for its existence and growth.”
Publisher MIT Press, Dec 1996
Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse
ISBN 0262041588, 9780262041584
xxiv+394 pages
Reviews: Martin Hayes (H-Urban, 1997), Gillian Rose (Env & Planning D: Society & Space, 1997), Gordon Brent Ingram (Fuse, 1997), Christopher Ho (PAJ, 1998).
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Comments (3)querelles-net, Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (2000-2011-) [German]
Filed under journal | Tags: · art, body, economics, education, fashion, gender, history, image, internet, law, literature, music, politics, pornography, religion, science, space, technology, women, youth
querelles-net erschließt die Vielzahl fachspezifischer, inter- und transdisziplinärer Veröffentlichungen im Bereich der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung/Gender Studies. Wissenschaftliche Rezensionen geben einen Überblick über wichtige Publikationen und aktuelle Forschungsschwerpunkte. Die fortlaufend aktualisierte Bibliographie informiert über die Neuerscheinungen des Feldes.
querelles-net erscheint seit 2000 in Ergänzung zu Querelles. Jahrbuch für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (1996 ff.).
querelles-net ist Teil des Publikationsförderprogramms zur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin.
Redaktionsleitung: Marco Tullney
Redaktion: Valeria Raupach, Anita Runge, Marco Tullney
Published by Freien Universität Berlin
ISSN 1862-054X
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany License (from Issue 2009 / 1)
PDF (Vol 12 Issue 2; 2011; EPUB)
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