ARTISTIC RESEARCH- SPRING 1

‘Intro to artistic research’- 22.01 - 

Summary intro notes- see full transcript here

  • Difference between publis space and public sphere (the participatory monument, Merete Røstad)
  • Public in the sense of space, sphere, realm. 
  • Conversing with other artists and scholars and discussing in that framework. 
  • Your work documented by others? Like the Francis Alys example (‘faith moves mountains’)
  • What does it mean When you are where you are?
  •  Individuals aren't part of a landscape? 
  • What would you do if you were asked to go to Antarctica and work with social community there? 
  • The meaning of art in public space will always change. 

Public Space, Public Sphere, Public Realm- 22.01

Intro workshop summary notes- see full transcript here

 PUBLIC SPHERE
  • Habermas the public sphere 1964 
  • An institution between the private sphere and the state 
  • Place for discussion (mass media, tv, radio, pubs) for the public 
  • Democratic in theory 
  • Space of appearance 
  • Where interactions take place, mediation places 
  • A space that is not necessarily physical  
  • Defined based on your positionality, identity (public sphere and realm can be interchanged?) 




PUBLIC REALM
  • Public realm is interactions with and between people and more-than-humans so therefore it needs some form of control from state (due to plurality of human and more than humans) - hanna arendt 
  • Bio-politics: even if something happens in the private realm it can now be shared via social media into the public realm, so both realms are mixing and overlapping.  
  • A public space/site of action controlled by the state.  
  • Henri lefebvre (right to the city), hanna arendt,  
  • Enables social processes 
  • Everyday spaces 
  • Not highways?  
  • Pubs 
  • Is mediated by a set of rules 
  • The public space when we are engaging with it 
PUBLIC SPACE 
  • Space: composed of intersections of mobile elements. A practiced place. 
  • place= configuration of positions, an order in accord with which elements are distributed in relation to one another (Michel de Cerceau, the practice of every day life)  
  • So space is interaction, movement, action within a place 
  • Eg: the streets defined by urban planning are transformed into a space by walkers.  
  • Intersection between society and state (Habermas)  
  • Physical space?  
  • Allmannsrett- right to roam  
  • Representation of space?  
  • Occupation of space?  
  • as we talk we are also producing space = production of space