CONF 21.11.2011

Spaces of Interaction in Contemporary Art and Architectur (Zürich, 16-17 Dec 11)

Zurich, Cabaret Voltaire, 16.–17.12.2011

Martino Stierli

Whose Participation? Spaces of Interaction in Contemporary Art and Architecture

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?

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Friday, December 16, 2011

14.30 Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich, ETH Zurich
Welcome and Introduction

Section 1: CONTROL
Moderation: Nina Zschocke, ETH Zurich


15.00 Felicity Scott, Columbia University, New York
Alice in Dataland: Revisiting the Architecture Machine Group's Aspen Movie Map

15.45 Andreas Rumpfhuber, Architect, Independent Theorist, Vienna
Participating Performatively: The Bürolandschaft, or, Towards a Society of Self-Organization

16.30 Coffee break

17.00 Sean Keller, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
The Politics of Form Finding: Frei Otto and the Mannheim Multihalle

17.45 Hélène Lipstadt
DOCOMOMO US, New York
Whose Theory of Participation? Bourdieusian Analyses of Agency in Architectural Competitions

18.30 Discussion

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Saturday, December 17, 2011

9.30 Coffee

Section 2: DISPLAY
Moderation: Martino Stierli, ETH Zurich


10.00 Introduction

10.15 Werner Hanak-Lettner
Jewish Museum Vienna
The Exhibition as Actor – The Exhibition as a Swimming Pool

11.00 Lutz Robbers
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
1912 – Hellerau as Spielraum

11.45 Coffee break

12.15 Sandra Löschke
University of Technology, Sydney
Participatory Aesthetics: Alexander Dorner’s Reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover

13.00 Discussion

13.30 Lunch

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Section 3: AGENCY
Moderation: Mechtild Widrich, ETH Zurich

14.30 Introduction

14.45 Gavin Grindon
Kingston University, London
Disobedient Objects: Agency and Determinism in Activist Art


15.30 Ana María León
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Sites of Occupation: From Tlatelolco to Parasol Metropol 1968–2011


16.15 Coffee break

16.45 Kenny Cupers
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The House of Participation: Modern Cultural Centers in Western Europe

17.30 Asja Mandi?
University of Sarajevo
Exhibitions in Damaged and Destroyed Architectural Objects in Besieged Sarajevo: Spaces of Gathering and Socialization

18.15 Discussion

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Organized by: Martino Stierli, Mechtild Widrich
Chair for the History of Art and Architecture Philip Ursprung, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich

Further Information: www.ursprung.arch.ethz.ch/events/whoseparticipation-spaces-of-interactionin-contemporary-artand-architecture/programn

 


Quellennachweis:
CONF: Spaces of Interaction in Contemporary Art and Architectur (Zürich, 16-17 Dec 11). In: ArtHist.net, 21.11.2011. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/2292>.

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