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Roman Signer
No full textA sole-authored book commissioned by Dumont/Flick Collection; with English and German editions published Spring 2007, launched Autumn 2007 alongside a major solo show of Signer at the Rieckshalle, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Only two illustrated critical surveys of this artist's work exist (the other: Roman Signer, Phaidon 2006).
This commission arose from a two-hour sound interview conducted on the occasion of the artist's 2003 retrospective at Hauser and Wirth, St Gallen (extract in Audio Arts magazine, 2004). Signer was the subject of an Artforum International review by Withers (October 2003 pp.198-199) and commented on Signer's work in the review: Liverpool Biennial I in Nu, The Nordic Art Review (December 1999 p.79). These ideas were subsequently developed for the book.
The monograph includes a 25,000-word interview edited from material recorded in Signer's studio in St Gallen, Switzerland, over seven days in 2005. The most extensive Signer interview in print, it contains much previously undocumented information and commentary by the artist. The book comprises a 25,000 word interview edited from material recorded in Signer’s studio in St Gallen Switzerland over seven days in 2005; and a 16,000-word essay considering the interrelationship of temporality with themes of catastrophe, ecology and humour in Signer's work. The text in part responds to Paul Good's philosophical study of Signer's work, Time Sculpture. It contrasts the time-theories of Henri Bergson, Gaston Bachelard and Cornelius Castoriadis and argues that a necessarily spilt consciousness of time underpins the temporality of Signer's 'time-sculptures'. New links are made between Signer's work and the contested chronotypes of the twentieth century ecological movement. New comparisons are made between Signer's humour and Buster Keaton's films
Erlebnis-Raum in 'Der Garten' und 'Heufieber'
No full textNormalerweise erfolgt die Situierung des Betrachters zur gebotenen Bildwelt über die Perspektivierung, beispielsweise durch die Zentralperspektive, die dem Publikum einen bestimmten Blickpunkt zuweist. Mit zeitbasierten Arbeiten ist es hingegen möglich, entweder die Perspektivierung als eine dynamisierte zu exemplifizieren oder Veränderungen des Blickpunktes über die Art der gezeigten bildlich-motivischen Dynamik in der Rezeption zu provozieren. Der Beitrag zielt darauf ab, verschiedene Weisen der Verschränkung zwischen Perspektivierung und Bildzeitlichkeit zu thematisieren. Die künstlerische Animation Der Garten macht mit bildnerischen Mitteln erfahrbar, dass eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Umwelt letztere für die Tätigen je unterschiedliche Qualitäten annimmt. Zur Verdeutlichung wird der Darstellungsraum mit den Handlungen der Protagonistin korreliert und damit auch dynamisiert. Die zweite besprochene Arbeit, das Video Heufieber, funktioniert insofern analog, als dass das im ersten Beispiel gezeigte Motiv einer Weltgestaltung nun in die Rezeption verlagert ist und somit als Erfahrung nicht mehr für andere externalisiert wird. Der antizipierte aktive Betrachter moduliert seinen Raumeindruck aufgrund der gesammelten Erfahrungswerte angesichts von Abläufen. Um das komplexe Phänomen zu umkreisen, werden theoretische Positionen aus unterschiedlichsten Gebieten herangezogen: Über die Beobachtung (zweiter Ordnung) und Niklas Luhmann lässt sich Handeln und Betrachten verschränken, mit Henri Bergson wird die qualitative Auffassung von Raum denkbar und schließlich bietet Ludwig Wittgenstein neben der Gestaltpsychologie über den Aspektwechsel ein theoretisches Instrumentarium, um die festgestellten Bildraumumschwünge in Heufieber zu charakterisieren
The 'auto cannibal'
No full textThe relentless triumph of technology is increasingly dismissive of the human desire for interaction; we are deprived of experiences with the ordinary and become less aware of the potential such objects contain. The author primarily considers art as a means of understanding the world and his practice is based on personal observations and autonomous processes. This can often lead to an over-analysis of the mundane, which is directly confronted in each of my projects through an enthusiasm for the objects we not only take for granted, but do so to the extent that we barely notice their existence. Drawing inspiration from literature, philosophy and ideas which surround permanence in a society which is frequently considered throwaway, the author is influenced by personal insecurities and have developed a creative style that not only explores construction - in the obsessive means by which a work is made; but also one that celebrates the process of destruction - in that the materials the author uses have the potential to instigate their own demise in a process I generally refer to as autocannibalism
After Sulla: study in the settlement and material culture of the Piraeus peninsula in the Roman and Late Roman period
No full textModem text-based and ancient historical accounts take the sack of Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece, by the Romans under Sulla in 86 ВС as the terminal point of the history of the area in antiquity. Archaeological work on the town has tended so far to regard the post-Classical phases of the settlement as less interesting than those marking the 'heyday' of the port in the Classical period. This thesis explores the nature and scale of settlement in the area in the centuries spanning the town's destruction by the Romans in 86 ВС and the Late Roman period. The study is based on a re-assessment of archaeological data from old and recent rescue excavations in the modem town up to 1997. It also presents and discusses in detail the results of post-excavation work by the author on unpublished material from an extensive site excavated in the early 1980s, These results are compared to and synthesized with epigraphic and other testimonies to answer questions about the nature of settlement and the degree of social and cultural change in the area during the period in focus. The discussion focuses in particular on; 1) exploring continuity and change in the settlement patterns, demography and topography of the town, 2) the changing nature of domestic space and its organization, and 3) investigating patterns of pottery consumption and trade. These issues are examined in the context of the social, economic and cultural changes documented for the Roman imperial and Late Roman period by previous archaeological fieldwork and excavations in the region of southern Greece and the Aegean
Fricções na Paisagem - sobre Roman Signer e Walter De Maria
No full textO artigo busca identificar pontos de contato entre obras dos artistas visuais Walter De Maria (EUA, 1935-2013) e Roman Signer (SUI, 1938) a partir de uma ideia de paisagem como vetor de convergência para a experiência estética na produção de ambos. A paisagem é aqui entendida como matéria-prima para a prática artística no sentido de um plano de atuação sobre o qual interferir diretamente. Nas obras em questão as abordagens e registros oscilam entre a monumentalidade do campo de tensões instaurado por The Lightning Field, de De Maria, contraposta a uma estratégia em que o gesto ou ação estética é marcado pela aparente banalidade, além de um acentuado componente inventivo e experimental, como é o caso das peças de Signer
A re-examination of the evidence for parade-grounds at auxiliary forts in Roman Britain
No full textThis Thesis examines the underlying evidence for parade-grounds at auxiliary forts in Roman Britain. Firstly by examining the evidence supporting forts with actual physical remains, such as the altars and the tribunal at Maryport and the artificially levelled area at Hardknott, and those with flagged areas which have been interpreted as parade-grounds, such as Ambleside and Gelligaer. The literary evidence of ancient authors is examined with particular reference to training and exercising and where this might have been undertaken. The occasions when a parade might have been appropriate in Roman times are examined, as is the possibility of a modem concept being superimposed on an ancient action
Re-Thinking Ritual Traditions: Interpreting Structured Deposition in Watery Contexts in Late Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Britain
No full textThis investigation seeks to define the strands of continuity and change in structured deposition across the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age to Early Roman transition in Britain, and interpret their significance in terms of cultural interaction. These interpretations not only examine and re-think structured deposition in relation to ritual traditions, but also explore how the continuity of such traditions was impacted by the transition between these two periods. Metalwork is a central focus but a wide range of other finds are also considered in order to take a holistic perspective on deposition. Watery deposits were an obvious starting point but comparisons with dry context deposits were necessary to provide a more complete understanding of these practices. The data were gathered from a number of individual sites throughout two contrasting case study zones defined by major waterways and labelled as such: the Severn-Thames Axis in the south and the Solway-Forth Axis in the north of Britain. Through the use of site reports as the main source of data, the analysis took a two-tiered approach. Individual episodes of structured deposition were examined and interpreted on a site-by-site basis. This then led to investigations on a broader scale by examining changes in the continuity of practices in the type of finds deposited, the contexts into which deposition took place and pre-deposition practices, such as deliberate breakage to determine patterns of deposition across the case study zones as a whole. With this comparative analysis it can be concluded that watery contexts were not a unique locus of structured deposition, and indeed that this practice is highly diverse across the zones studied. The tempora
The Empire, the Land, and the Exodus: A Study of How the Roman Empire Literally Shaped Christianity: 1 C.E. - 280 C.E.
No full textThis paper explores the factors and trends involved in the movement of Christian communities from Palestine into Asia Minor and regions west of the Aegean Sea. Because the first generation of Christians generally continued to identify themselves as Jewish, this paper looks into the factors that affected the Jewish community with the perspective that a large portion of the early Christians were still members of the Jewish community. Roman land control policies, taxation, and continuous loss and division of land all but pushed many Jews out of the region while the peace of Augustus led many more to depart more voluntarily. It was the culmination of all these factors that led to Jewish emigration from the Palestinian region. The paper will begin with a brief history of the birth of Christianity and the Jewish-Roman relationship in Palestine, followed by a discussion of factors that led to emigration from Palestine, and then end with an analysis of the locations of the Christian communities
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