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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white(...)
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white(...)
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City of segregation: 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white suburbs; and the 2006 victory preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification enfolded within ongoing resistance to the criminalization and displacement of the homeless. Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of th e racist ideology that must be fought, in Los Angeles and across the United States, if we hope to found just cities.
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"City of Segregation" documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in 1948; the 1960s Civil Rights movement and CORE’s efforts to integrate LA’s white suburbs; and the 2006 victory preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification enfolded within ongoing resistance to the criminalization and displacement of the homeless. Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of th e racist ideology that must be fought, in Los Angeles and across the United States, if we hope to found just cities.
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Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of(...)
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Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of(...)
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Vertical: the city from satellites to bunkers
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Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below.
Vertical: the city from satellites to bunkers
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Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below.
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April 2018
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Urban Theory
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Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal(...)
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Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal(...)
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Radical happiness: the search for movements of collective joy
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Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness— the art of transformative, collective joy. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing. Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re-discovery of the political and emotional joy that emerge when we learn to share our lives together.
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Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what if the true nature of happiness can only be found in others? In Radical Happiness, leading feminist thinker Lynne Segal believes that we have lost the art of radical happiness— the art of transformative, collective joy. She shows that only in the revolutionary potential of coming together it is that we can come to understand the powers of flourishing. Radical Happiness is a passionate call for the re-discovery of the political and emotional joy that emerge when we learn to share our lives together.
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December 2017
December 2017
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Critical Theory
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In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital(...)
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In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital(...)
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Duty free art: art in the age of planetary civil war
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In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.
Duty free art: art in the age of planetary civil war
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In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.
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November 2017
November 2017
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In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we(...)
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In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we(...)
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Grand Hotel Abyss: the lives of the Frankfurt school
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In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation. Their lives, like their ideas, profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the twentieth century. "Grand Hotel Abyss" combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. Benjamin, with his last great work—the incomplete Arcades Project—in his suitcase, was arrested in Spain and committed suicide when threatened with deportation to Nazi-occupied France. On the other side of the Atlantic, Adorno failed in his bid to become a Hollywood screenwriter, denounced jazz, and even met Charlie Chaplin in Malibu. After the war, there was a resurgence of interest in the School. From the relative comfort of sun-drenched California, Herbert Marcuse wrote the classic One Dimensional Man, which influenced the 1960s counterculture and thinkers such as Angela Davis; while in a tragic coda, Adorno died from a heart attack following confrontations with student radicals in Berlin. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.
Grand Hotel Abyss: the lives of the Frankfurt school
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In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they change the way we think, but also the subjects we deem worthy of intellectual investigation. Their lives, like their ideas, profoundly, sometimes tragically, reflected and shaped the shattering events of the twentieth century. "Grand Hotel Abyss" combines biography, philosophy, and storytelling to reveal how the Frankfurt thinkers gathered in hopes of understanding the politics of culture during the rise of fascism. Some of them, forced to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany, later found exile in the United States. Benjamin, with his last great work—the incomplete Arcades Project—in his suitcase, was arrested in Spain and committed suicide when threatened with deportation to Nazi-occupied France. On the other side of the Atlantic, Adorno failed in his bid to become a Hollywood screenwriter, denounced jazz, and even met Charlie Chaplin in Malibu. After the war, there was a resurgence of interest in the School. From the relative comfort of sun-drenched California, Herbert Marcuse wrote the classic One Dimensional Man, which influenced the 1960s counterculture and thinkers such as Angela Davis; while in a tragic coda, Adorno died from a heart attack following confrontations with student radicals in Berlin. By taking popular culture seriously as an object of study—whether it was film, music, ideas, or consumerism—the Frankfurt School elaborated upon the nature and crisis of our mass-produced, mechanised society. Grand Hotel Abyss shows how much these ideas still tell us about our age of social media and runaway consumption.
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September 2017
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should(...)
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should(...)
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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April 2018
April 2018
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A book on urban thinking: architecture and human rights
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should therefore not be limited to creating living space as questions of the distribution of resources, so closely interwoven with architectural design, must also play a role. This book is conceived as a collage of narratives, photos and critical conversations on the link between human rights and architecture. In its hybrid form, all of the people involved at every level are given a voice and encouraged to question whether the architecture of the towns, streets and buildings for which they are responsible contributes to the protection and advancement of human rights. The ultimate goal is that the consideration of human rights become an architect's powerful tool for better and fairer urban planning.
A book on urban thinking: architecture and human rights
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The striking inequalities in living conditions in today's cities and metropolises reveal one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. Ascertaining that architecture can never be neutral, those involved in this field of design are called on to recognize and to act on their social responsibility – not only – in the city-making process. Their work should therefore not be limited to creating living space as questions of the distribution of resources, so closely interwoven with architectural design, must also play a role. This book is conceived as a collage of narratives, photos and critical conversations on the link between human rights and architecture. In its hybrid form, all of the people involved at every level are given a voice and encouraged to question whether the architecture of the towns, streets and buildings for which they are responsible contributes to the protection and advancement of human rights. The ultimate goal is that the consideration of human rights become an architect's powerful tool for better and fairer urban planning.
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April 2018
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Architectural Theory
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Juger l'architecture
Juger l'architecture
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Dans cet essai inédit en français, paru initialement à Londres en 1971, l’auteur s’attache à établir des analogies entre le jugement qui relève du droit anglo-saxon et le jugement en matière d’architecture. En établissant d’étonnants parallèles entre ces deux champs, il entend conforter l’une des ambitions majeures qui traversent l’ensemble de son oeuvre, à savoir montrer(...)
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Dans cet essai inédit en français, paru initialement à Londres en 1971, l’auteur s’attache à établir des analogies entre le jugement qui relève du droit anglo-saxon et le jugement en matière d’architecture. En établissant d’étonnants parallèles entre ces deux champs, il entend conforter l’une des ambitions majeures qui traversent l’ensemble de son oeuvre, à savoir montrer(...)
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Juger l'architecture
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Dans cet essai inédit en français, paru initialement à Londres en 1971, l’auteur s’attache à établir des analogies entre le jugement qui relève du droit anglo-saxon et le jugement en matière d’architecture. En établissant d’étonnants parallèles entre ces deux champs, il entend conforter l’une des ambitions majeures qui traversent l’ensemble de son oeuvre, à savoir montrer que l’architecture est fondamentalement un métier qui, s’il entretient des rapports avec les arts plastiques, a pour destination essentielle de répondre à des besoins sociaux et des exigences pratiques. En cela, estime Collins, l’architecture a plus à voir avec les professions qui relèvent du droit ou de la médecine qu’avec les pratiques artistiques des peintres ou des sculpteurs.
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Dans cet essai inédit en français, paru initialement à Londres en 1971, l’auteur s’attache à établir des analogies entre le jugement qui relève du droit anglo-saxon et le jugement en matière d’architecture. En établissant d’étonnants parallèles entre ces deux champs, il entend conforter l’une des ambitions majeures qui traversent l’ensemble de son oeuvre, à savoir montrer que l’architecture est fondamentalement un métier qui, s’il entretient des rapports avec les arts plastiques, a pour destination essentielle de répondre à des besoins sociaux et des exigences pratiques. En cela, estime Collins, l’architecture a plus à voir avec les professions qui relèvent du droit ou de la médecine qu’avec les pratiques artistiques des peintres ou des sculpteurs.
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Les modernologues
Les modernologues
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L'histoire du modernisme n'aura pas seulement occupé les historiens et les critiques, elle aura aussi été un objet d'investissement à part entière pour les créateurs actuels. C'est ce que montre cet ouvrage, le premier de Marjolaine Lévy. Elle y analyse dans le détail l'œuvre de six artistes pour lesquels le rapport au modernisme de la première moitié du xxe siècle est(...)
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L'histoire du modernisme n'aura pas seulement occupé les historiens et les critiques, elle aura aussi été un objet d'investissement à part entière pour les créateurs actuels. C'est ce que montre cet ouvrage, le premier de Marjolaine Lévy. Elle y analyse dans le détail l'œuvre de six artistes pour lesquels le rapport au modernisme de la première moitié du xxe siècle est(...)
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Les modernologues
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L'histoire du modernisme n'aura pas seulement occupé les historiens et les critiques, elle aura aussi été un objet d'investissement à part entière pour les créateurs actuels. C'est ce que montre cet ouvrage, le premier de Marjolaine Lévy. Elle y analyse dans le détail l'œuvre de six artistes pour lesquels le rapport au modernisme de la première moitié du xxe siècle est crucial. Ce faisant, leurs travaux sont aussi des interprétations historiques, fondées sur des approches plasticiennes, qui traitent la mémoire des formes par son invention aujourd'hui. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Malevitch, Marcel Breuer, ces figures balisent l'univers de Farah Atassi, Martin Boyce, David Diao, Josiah McElheny, Simon Starling et Lucy Williams.
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L'histoire du modernisme n'aura pas seulement occupé les historiens et les critiques, elle aura aussi été un objet d'investissement à part entière pour les créateurs actuels. C'est ce que montre cet ouvrage, le premier de Marjolaine Lévy. Elle y analyse dans le détail l'œuvre de six artistes pour lesquels le rapport au modernisme de la première moitié du xxe siècle est crucial. Ce faisant, leurs travaux sont aussi des interprétations historiques, fondées sur des approches plasticiennes, qui traitent la mémoire des formes par son invention aujourd'hui. Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Malevitch, Marcel Breuer, ces figures balisent l'univers de Farah Atassi, Martin Boyce, David Diao, Josiah McElheny, Simon Starling et Lucy Williams.
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May 2017
May 2017
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This book tells the story of the VENTO project, a cycling route from Venice (VENezia) to Turin (TOrino) running along the River Po. A new cultural paradigm to live differently in open spaces and the ways in which they change. A project of reanimating a landscape that is capable of offering new employment and economic diversification for the sustainable development of the(...)
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This book tells the story of the VENTO project, a cycling route from Venice (VENezia) to Turin (TOrino) running along the River Po. A new cultural paradigm to live differently in open spaces and the ways in which they change. A project of reanimating a landscape that is capable of offering new employment and economic diversification for the sustainable development of the(...)
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Urban Theory
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October 2015
October 2015
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Vento: the gentle revolution cycling its way through the landscape
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This book tells the story of the VENTO project, a cycling route from Venice (VENezia) to Turin (TOrino) running along the River Po. A new cultural paradigm to live differently in open spaces and the ways in which they change. A project of reanimating a landscape that is capable of offering new employment and economic diversification for the sustainable development of the country’s inland areas.
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This book tells the story of the VENTO project, a cycling route from Venice (VENezia) to Turin (TOrino) running along the River Po. A new cultural paradigm to live differently in open spaces and the ways in which they change. A project of reanimating a landscape that is capable of offering new employment and economic diversification for the sustainable development of the country’s inland areas.
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112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, Artists Space, The Clocktower, P.S.1, Franklin Furnace, ou Fashion Moda : ces lieux nés durant la décennie 1970, et parfois toujours en activité, ont laissé une empreinte durable sur la scène artistique new-yorkaise. « Espaces alternatifs », d'abord installés dans ces quartiers industriels du sud de Manhattan qui deviendront SoHo et(...)
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112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, Artists Space, The Clocktower, P.S.1, Franklin Furnace, ou Fashion Moda : ces lieux nés durant la décennie 1970, et parfois toujours en activité, ont laissé une empreinte durable sur la scène artistique new-yorkaise. « Espaces alternatifs », d'abord installés dans ces quartiers industriels du sud de Manhattan qui deviendront SoHo et(...)
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Une histoire des espaces alternatifs à New York: de SoHo au South Bronx,1969-1985
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112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, Artists Space, The Clocktower, P.S.1, Franklin Furnace, ou Fashion Moda : ces lieux nés durant la décennie 1970, et parfois toujours en activité, ont laissé une empreinte durable sur la scène artistique new-yorkaise. « Espaces alternatifs », d'abord installés dans ces quartiers industriels du sud de Manhattan qui deviendront SoHo et TriBeCa, puis dans l'East Village, le Queens, Brooklyn, ou encore le sud du Bronx, ces lieux d'exposition, de création et de sociabilité établis en marge des institutions muséales et des galeries commerciales ont favorisé l'épanouissement de nouvelles pratiques : art processuel, danse postmoderne, art vidéo, performance. C'est une enquête historique et un parcours géographique que propose l'ouvrage, mettant en lumière l'articulation entre ces pratiques et les phénomènes institutionnels, sociaux, économiques et urbains dont elles ne peuvent être dissociées. Si les installations dans les espaces bruts du 112 Greene Street ou l'exposition inaugurale de P.S.1 révèlent un engouement pour le matériau urbain, c'est aussi la place des artistes dans la ville de New York qui est alors constamment interrogée, depuis la légalisation des premiers lofts jusqu'aux critiques virulentes de la gentrification qui émanent de la communauté artistique elle-même. Alors qu'au début des années 1970 ces lieux alternatifs profitent d'un contexte économique favorable et du soutien d'une nouvelle politique culturelle fédérale et locale, le milieu des années 1980 sonne le glas d'un mouvement. « The Fun is gone » arbore la Fun Gallery à sa fermeture dans l'East Village en 1985. La scène alternative s'essouffle sous la présidence Reagan, non sans avoir nourri sa propre histoire et contribué à la constitution d'une mythologie et d'un héritage dont l'ambivalence persiste aujourd'hui.
Une histoire des espaces alternatifs à New York: de SoHo au South Bronx,1969-1985
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112 Greene Street, The Kitchen, Artists Space, The Clocktower, P.S.1, Franklin Furnace, ou Fashion Moda : ces lieux nés durant la décennie 1970, et parfois toujours en activité, ont laissé une empreinte durable sur la scène artistique new-yorkaise. « Espaces alternatifs », d'abord installés dans ces quartiers industriels du sud de Manhattan qui deviendront SoHo et TriBeCa, puis dans l'East Village, le Queens, Brooklyn, ou encore le sud du Bronx, ces lieux d'exposition, de création et de sociabilité établis en marge des institutions muséales et des galeries commerciales ont favorisé l'épanouissement de nouvelles pratiques : art processuel, danse postmoderne, art vidéo, performance. C'est une enquête historique et un parcours géographique que propose l'ouvrage, mettant en lumière l'articulation entre ces pratiques et les phénomènes institutionnels, sociaux, économiques et urbains dont elles ne peuvent être dissociées. Si les installations dans les espaces bruts du 112 Greene Street ou l'exposition inaugurale de P.S.1 révèlent un engouement pour le matériau urbain, c'est aussi la place des artistes dans la ville de New York qui est alors constamment interrogée, depuis la légalisation des premiers lofts jusqu'aux critiques virulentes de la gentrification qui émanent de la communauté artistique elle-même. Alors qu'au début des années 1970 ces lieux alternatifs profitent d'un contexte économique favorable et du soutien d'une nouvelle politique culturelle fédérale et locale, le milieu des années 1980 sonne le glas d'un mouvement. « The Fun is gone » arbore la Fun Gallery à sa fermeture dans l'East Village en 1985. La scène alternative s'essouffle sous la présidence Reagan, non sans avoir nourri sa propre histoire et contribué à la constitution d'une mythologie et d'un héritage dont l'ambivalence persiste aujourd'hui.
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July 2017
July 2017
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