Claire Doherty : From Studio to Situation

A thrilling book … despite it focuses on contemporary art, it is potential to expand the field of research upon some experiment performance/theatre as well.  

Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation

This book, edited by Claire Doherty and published by Black Dog Publishing, describes the shift in focus that has taken place in much contemporary art practice in the last decade. From the notion of relational aesthetics to the concerns of site-specificity, this book provides a new critical investigation into the production and curation of contemporary art. Including reprints of seminal texts alongside new essays, interviews and case studies by leading international artists, writers and curators, this anthology provides an overview of this increasingly significant (and contested) field of art practice.

The Radioballet

Man schreibt den 8. November des Jahres 2006. Unter dem Motto “Lasst uns gemeinsam Tanzen für eine freie Bildung!”, wurde auf dem Erfurter Fischmarkt zum Protest gegen die Einführung der Studiengebühren in Thüringen aufgerufen. Keiner stand still, alles bewegte sich. Man sagt, sogar der Alte Roland wippte zum Takt der Musik. Seht selbst – in einem Bericht von UNIcut. Entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem StuRa der Uni Erfurt.

gregor schneider, süßer duft

Just a very example as Wilfried Hou Je Bek explained:

In psychoanalysis the word psychogeography is used in relation to phenomena of location based hysteria: you are perfectly sane, you enter a particular room and within a split second you are stark raving mad. Only when this response is universally shared and not dependent on a random individual neurosis, this power of a room can be called psychogeographic. 

From the age of 16, Gregor Schneider (born in Rheydt in 1969) has been transforming the interior of the home he inherited from his father in the small town of Rheydt, Germany. A work in progress until 2007, he has constantly added new rooms, separated others, removed mod-cons, and blocked up windows, adding fake ones in their place. The result is a labyrinthine structure which he has entitled Haus u r (House u r). Occasionally, visitors are invited to spend the night there and share his personal space.

The Space Between

Latifa Echakhch
Micro vide/Empty microphone, 2006
dimensions variable.

The exhibition The Space Between addresses certain dynamics where simple gestures suggest an alteration and a politicization of temporal and spatial conditions inherent in the work and between the artwork and the viewer. This is manifested both in the content and in the formal structure of the work.

Situated technologies! not only GPS.

‘Situated technologies‘ is rather more human than ‘locative media’. Situated technologies not only know where we are, but also reach for what we are doing, and potentially, even how we are feeling.

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet series explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How is our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies?

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