3,685 research outputs found
Oscillating at the 'high/low' art divide: curating and exhibiting animation
No full textThis chapter appears in the book 'Issues in curating contemporary art and performance' edited by Judith Rugg and Michele Sedgwick
Eroded light: the photographs of Christopher Wool
No full textThe 5,000 word chapter will investigate the significance of the relationships between the painter Christopher Wool’s black and white photographs of New York and his work as a painter of the urban
Budapest's Statue Park: memorial or countermonument?
No full textA photo essay by Judith Rugg and Michele Sedgwic
Urban texts: art, visual culture, place and the city
No full textThis book will bring together a range of research which reflects the importance of the urban on concepts of contemporary space and experience. Chapters will draw on: guerilla gardening, the politics of nearness, new urbanism, street photography, the rise of megacities, urban ecology, moving image and painting in addressing issues of the city and its enduring focus for a wide range of disciplines.
Contributors include: Tim Edensor, Gil Doran, Anne Minton, Paul O’Neill, Catherine Elwes, and Neil Leach
Issues in curating contemporary art and performance
No full textTo stay relevant, art curators must keep up with the rapid pace of technological innovation as well as the aesthetic tastes of fickle critics and an ever-expanding circle of cultural arbiters. Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performanceargues that, despite these daily pressures, good curating work also requires more theoretical attention. In this groundbreaking volume, a distinguished group of artists, curators, and writers probe the changing face of curating in dance, the visual arts, film, and writing. They explore cutting-edge developments in electronic art, art/science collaboration, non-gallery spaces, and "virtual" fields in this essential read for scholars, curators, and art enthusiasts alike
Sophie Calle's appointment at the Freud Museum: intervention or irony
No full textIn this chapter judith Rugg examines Sophie Calle's installation, Appointment, sited in the Freud Museum from February to March 1999 and considers the significance for a woman artist to show work in the house of the father of psychoanalysis
Architec-Tronic: Judith Rugg, Paintings
No full textThe research for this solo exhibition considers the accidental aesthetic of surfaces of streets, pavements, walls and the underground. The focus is on urban space as the locus for the energy of hope and longing, disappointment and loss: the paradoxes of innocence and deliberation, of clean and dirty and the debris of passing humanity where the battleground of the crowd leaves its marks in a narrative of leavings and where smears, stains and accumulations constitute the transience of the individual and the poignancy of struggle
Utopia from dystopia: the Women's Playhouse Trust and the Wapping Project
No full textThis paper discusses the politics of cultural regeneration in relation to the Women's Playhouse Trust's struggle to create a sustainable site for change and examine the contradictory relationships between urbanisation and cultural production and gender
The Barbican: living in an airport without the fear of departure
No full textThis research investigates the spatial paradoxes of living in a world-renowned arts centre with residential space. What are the issues and implications of the Barbican's location within a global centre of corporate and financial power? How might 20th century urban theory be applied to contemporary understandings of the subjective experience of modernity?
The aim of the research is to develop 'place-writing' as a contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge on the subjectivities of place and space. The research contributes to my ongoing development of methods of writing on place – distinct from geography, architectural theory or social theory – drawing on critical and urban theory.
The research employs primary research including location photography; and secondary research by drawing on the 20th century urban theory of Henri Lefebvre, Walter Benjamin and Georg Simmel. It investigates the Barbican's oppositional relation between place and space created by its cathedral like gloom, confusing signage, and disorientating floor levels and its wider location as a unique residential space in the City of London. The research reflects on the spatial paradox of living in the Barbican: its location within a centre of corporate and financial power within a local authority with its own police force and unique electoral system. It investigates how the Barbican as residential space embodies the alterity of the city: at once a defamiliarisation and a struggle for belonging; and where a sense of 'home' is a concept enmeshed within an ontological and epistemological struggle.
The research develops insights into, and understandings of, concepts of 'home'; explores the nature of subjectivity and the relationship between the domestic and the city; and highlights the imbrications of architecture and experience. The research aims to benefit architects, designers, planners, social and urban theorists
Recoveries and reclamations: advances in art and urban futures
No full textThis work brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the 21st century
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