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Ways of seeing architecture and landscape in the voids of presence: The case of a health resort on the Adriatic coast of Croatia
No full textThe article examines the multi-layered roles of photography and film in “cultural translation,” representing architecture and landscape as a mediated place of conflicting visions, meanings and experiences. Taking the concept of the “production of space” as a starting point, it aims to contextualise the mediatory practices of photography and film by means of analysing the case study of a multifunctional building – the Krvavica Children’s Health Resort – designed in the 1960s by Rikard Marasović on the Adriatic coast of Croatia (formerly Yugoslavia). Focusing on an analysis of three paradigmatic examples of visual practices, the photographic series by Wolfgang Thaler (2011), the episode Mysterious Object in the Pine Forest filmed as part of the documentary series Slumbering Concrete (2016), and the experimental film A Record of Landscape without Prehistory by the artistic duo Doplgenger (2020), the article explores how photography and film communicate quality, in particular how mediated representations (re)create current interpretation and understanding of the intertwined heritage of modern architecture and landscape. Examining aspects of recording the site from different perspectives, a series of questions arise when addressing the issue of space, focused on its role in reshaping meanings, memories, emotions and experiences, narrating not only what architecture and landscape are but also what they could become and how they might be constituted in the context of different cultural identities
São Paulo’s Minhocão on Film
No full textThis paper concerns the cinematic representation of São Paulo’s Elevado João Goulart, a 3.5km elevated expressway close to the historic centre of the city, popularly known as the Minhocão. Built during the boom period of Brazil’s dictatorship, the Minhocão opened to traffic in January 1971. Controversial at the beginning of its existence, it has been partially rehabilitated, a process in which film has been important. The paper describes three general modes of the Minhocão’s depiction on film: in the first it represents a generalised fear of the modern city, in the second it is a normal part of the landscape, and in the third it is a form of aesthetic occupation. Key films discussed include Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), directed by Hector Babenco (1985) and the documentary Elevado 3.5 (Maíra Bühler, Paulo Pastorelo and João Sodré 2006). The paper responds to Sophia’s Landscapes of Care theme by showing how over time film can, over time, help rehabilitate seemingly irredeemable infrastructure
Responder e corresponder em tom menor: A produção do comum em uma escola que garanta lugar para cada um
Get PDFIn this article, we propose to think about the school as a public and democratic space based on participant observation research carried out in a public school in Rio de Janeiro that, affectionately called Mariana, also names its workers as such. The construction of this Mariana community is comprehended through the concept of commoning, a process which enables us to inhabit the world and grow with and in the presence of others. Marianas’ work allows us to think about how the movements of commoning take place through minor gestures, which can, in the gaps, carry out transgressions, thus producing powerful ways of experiencing education. Those concepts are looked upon intertwined with experiences such as the weekly assemblies and a project that pursued the care of oneself, for others and for the planet. It is, therefore, this minor education and its movements of responding and corresponding that interest us.Neste artigo propomos pensar a escola como espaço público e democrático a partir de uma pesquisa de observação participante realizada em uma escola pública do Rio de Janeiro que, apelidada carinhosamente de Mariana, também assim nomeia suas trabalhadoras e trabalhadores. A construção desta comunidade Mariana é compreendida em articulação com o conceito de produção do comum como o que nos possibilita habitar o mundo e crescer com e na presença dos outros. O trabalho das Marianas nos permite pensar como esses movimentos de produção do comum se dão a partir de gestos menores capazes de realizar transgressões, produzindo, nas brechas, formas mais potentes de viver a educação. Tais questões são discutidas a partir das experiências acompanhadas, como as assembleias semanais e um projeto desenvolvido que perseguiu o cuidado de si, do outro e do planeta. É, pois, esta educação menor e seus movimentos de responder e corresponder que nos interessam
Flash: Reviews and Curatorial Projects
Get PDFThis section starts by reviewing two exhibitions that are taking place at the international level, which not only reflect contemporary artistic practices but also interrogate the socio-cultural underpinnings of our built environment: The Head, The Heart & The House: Migration and Modernism in King-lui Wu’s Domestic Architecture and Tatiana Bilbao Estudio — Architecture for the Community. Then, a recent curatorial project involving architecture, media and art is presented - Building a Collective Archive: A Yale Traveler’s Mnemosyne -, inviting readers into a thought-provoking journey through the Yale School of Architecture’s latest curatorial endeavour.
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Cover page: Building a Collective Archive, Exhibition entrance at the Yale’s North Gallery, at Rudolph Hall © courtesy of YSo
Changing the Image: Photographic Investigations on the Anonymous Modern in Aachen, Germany 1970-1989
Get PDFIn the 1970s and 1980s a certain kind of anonymous architecture emerged in West German cities of the former Bonn Republic which is currently confronted with the risk of demolition, stemming mainly from the lack of recognition and care. These buildings have played a significant role in shaping the character of today’s typical West German cities, thus holding a crucial place in the identity of these urban and suburban areas. Therefore, this paper focuses on the concept of photography as a visual preservation method, using the city of Aachen as a representative example of an average-sized West German city. The objective is to enhance the appreciation of this neglected cultural heritage, both in terms of sustainable urban planning and potential inclusion in the canon of architectural history
Walking the Table: Caring-with landscape
No full textWalking the Table is an experimental project that develops a relationship of care, registering and becoming conscious of subtle changes within an Australian landscape. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s ideas of ‘making-with’1 and Tim Ingold’s concept of ‘thinking through making’2 this visual essay explores ideas of relational care within a rapidly altering landscape and how one may become an attentive participant, moving with a changing landscape as a practice of care. Understanding ‘landscape’ to be a layered entanglement of systems, materials and inhabitants (more-than-human and human) movements and projections that are influenced by the past and present, the role of the photographs and two forms of text is to weave three different layers of conversation that are relational and form an overall narrative.
Photography is used to capture the process of a dialogue emerging between the walker and the landscape, facilitated through the camera and the table when walking the table around the site. Landscape and care is an ever-evolving relationship that requires attentiveness and participation. When a relationship with a landscape is built over a prolonged period of time, revealed are the drastic differences in scales of temporal shifts that landscapes undergo, formulating an ongoing dialogue between the landscape and the inhabitant of that landscape.
Cover image: Shadow 11, Noticing an unusual shadow of a tree branch I looked up. What we humans botanically classify as an Ulmus species had a strange growth on its smaller branches. Unknown to me whether the tree has wing-bark disease or is a cork-winged Elm, after this discovery and unsure whether the Elm was sick or not, each time I passed by, I would check on the tree
Nos Bastidores do Desenho Viagens com a Câmara Clara
Get PDFNos Bastidores do Desenho é um ensaio sobre um trabalho de investigação realizado na Índia entre 2015 e 2016, onde se desenvolveram várias séries de desenhos com uma câmara clara. Explora, em relação a essa viagem de seis meses e, em particular, relativamente a um dos lugares visitados, Hampi, a relação entre os desenhos efetuados, as condições em que se realizaram e todos os preparativos necessários para a sua concretização. Desde a descrição da bagagem selecionada para toda a estadia na Índia, para os pequenos percursos diários em diferentes localidades até ao material de desenho utilizado e transportado continuamente, faz-se uma incursão àquilo que normalmente os desenhos não evidenciam ou revelam, mas que nesta viagem foi determinante para levar a cabo com êxito o projeto planeado. Se a ideia de desenhar e deambular está intimamente relacionada com a própria viagem, com a forma como se planearam e depois se consumaram vários dos percursos do trabalho de campo, a mesma ideia também é pertinente para descrever um modo muito particular de desenhar, resultante da experiência e prática de utilização da câmara clara
AllhiheyAll
Get PDFProjeto artístico.
"Em AllhiheyAll, Vários Artistas capturam movimentos e automatismos presentes no ato de caminhar, através de desenhos que mapeiam tanto a energia cinética quanto o comportamento inconsciente de seus participantes.
Vários Artistas pedem aos participantes/caminhantes que transportem um instrumento por tempo predeterminado. Os instrumentos podem ser envelopes, caixas ou tubos contendo diferentes mecanismos de desenho. Em alguns casos, o participante/ caminhante/transportador não tem conhecimento exato do conteúdo da embalagem, e deve ter confiança no artista.
From address to outcome, a proposal for discussing research in the art academia towards the idea of a critical landscape
Get PDFThis text aims to discuss forms of teaching/learning that allow for the understanding of the involvement of students in carrying out actions that pertain to two major areas of intervention: landscape and knowledge, and how research processes may be generated by those actions. Landscape is intended to be approached from a dynamic and critical point of view, beyond its multiple senses and descriptive characters, such e.g. as rural or urban considered as limiteded descriptions. Knowledge is considered horizontally as a collectively generated process focused on providing tools for research and analysis based on student-centred actions. As a brief open-ended exercise, this text does not aim to respond to a set of challenges involved in the definition of the practices that will attempt to discuss, such as, firstly, the contradictions inherent in the definitions of trans or post-medial practices, in constant change and often contested from current theory and art itself; and second, the danger of enclosing ourselves in definitive terminologies to describe the practices that occupy us and that often operate precisely in opposition to the propensity to find and stabilise definitions, which is the aspiration of the academia. How is academic research in the art academia to deal with these contradictions and how to distinguish between practice based and practice led research, will be the key questions that the text will try to address critically. Is the space of the academia the last space for utopia?
Cover page: Relationa