Symposium
Veranstalter: Professur Ursprung
Datum : Freitag, 16. Dezember 2011 bis Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011
In the wake of the revolutionary unrest of the late 1960s, the idea of participatory art and architecture has lost its utopian connotations to become a complex debate about the active role of the spectator—and dweller—in space. Models critical of technocratic social planning have seen in interactive art and architecture the latest mode of authoritarian control (Foucault, Bourdieu); others, taking their cue from reuse and reorientation of spaces and artifacts, have seen in cooperative or ‘relational’ aesthetics the only viable politics in an era of global capitalism (de Certeau, Bourriaud). The nerve of the debate lies in the equation of sociality and space. It is this causal nexus between space and social life that, above all, we wish to draw attention to and put into question. Is power exerted in only one direction or could we describe these relationships as complex networks of interaction? Is space formed once and for all, or is it the changeable product of changeable patterns of use? Is the aesthetic always equivalent to the political, or might an aesthetically authoritarian space be conducive to social emancipation? And, finally, how does the mediatization of urban space challenge concepts of participation and audience?
Gavin Grindon, Kingston University, London: Disobedient Objects: Agency and Determinism in Activist Art
Sean Keller, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago: The Politics of Form Finding: Frei Otto and the Mannheim Multihalle
Ana María León, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: Sites of Occupation: From Tlatelolco to Parasol Metropol 1968–2011
Werner Hanak-Lettner, Jewish Museum Vienna: The Visitor as Actor. The Exhibition as a Swimming Pool
Hélène Lipstadt DOCOMOMO US, New York: Whose Theory of Participation? Bourdieusian Analyses of Agency in Architectural Competitions
Sandra Löschke, University of Technology, Sydney: Participatory Aesthetics: Alexander Dorner’s Reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover
Asja Mandić, University of Sarajevo: Exhibitions in Damaged and Destroyed Architectural Objects in Besieged Sarajevo: Spaces of Gathering and Socialization
Lutz Robbers, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: 1912 – Hellerau as Spielraum
Andreas Rumpfhuber, Architect, Independent Theorist, Vienna: Participating Performatively: The Bürolandschaft, or, Towards a Society of Self-Organization
Felicity Scott, Columbia University, New York: Alice in Dataland. Revisting the Architecture Machine Group's Aspen Movie Map
Veranstalter: Professur Ursprung
Datum : Freitag, 16. Dezember 2011 bis Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011
In the wake of the revolutionary unrest of the late 1960s, the idea of participatory art and architecture has lost its utopian connotations to become a complex debate about the active role of the spectator—and dweller—in space. Models critical of technocratic social planning have seen in interactive art and architecture the latest mode of authoritarian control (Foucault, Bourdieu); others, taking their cue from reuse and reorientation of spaces and artifacts, have seen in cooperative or ‘relational’ aesthetics the only viable politics in an era of global capitalism (de Certeau, Bourriaud). The nerve of the debate lies in the equation of sociality and space. It is this causal nexus between space and social life that, above all, we wish to draw attention to and put into question. Is power exerted in only one direction or could we describe these relationships as complex networks of interaction? Is space formed once and for all, or is it the changeable product of changeable patterns of use? Is the aesthetic always equivalent to the political, or might an aesthetically authoritarian space be conducive to social emancipation? And, finally, how does the mediatization of urban space challenge concepts of participation and audience?
Abstracts
Kenny Cupers, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York: The House of Participation: Modern Cultural Centers in Western EuropeGavin Grindon, Kingston University, London: Disobedient Objects: Agency and Determinism in Activist Art
Sean Keller, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago: The Politics of Form Finding: Frei Otto and the Mannheim Multihalle
Ana María León, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: Sites of Occupation: From Tlatelolco to Parasol Metropol 1968–2011
Werner Hanak-Lettner, Jewish Museum Vienna: The Visitor as Actor. The Exhibition as a Swimming Pool
Hélène Lipstadt DOCOMOMO US, New York: Whose Theory of Participation? Bourdieusian Analyses of Agency in Architectural Competitions
Sandra Löschke, University of Technology, Sydney: Participatory Aesthetics: Alexander Dorner’s Reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover
Asja Mandić, University of Sarajevo: Exhibitions in Damaged and Destroyed Architectural Objects in Besieged Sarajevo: Spaces of Gathering and Socialization
Lutz Robbers, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: 1912 – Hellerau as Spielraum
Andreas Rumpfhuber, Architect, Independent Theorist, Vienna: Participating Performatively: The Bürolandschaft, or, Towards a Society of Self-Organization
Felicity Scott, Columbia University, New York: Alice in Dataland. Revisting the Architecture Machine Group's Aspen Movie Map