scholarly journals Portable Projections: Analyzing Cocreated Site-Specific Video Walks

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 492-497
Author(s):  
Rocio von Jungenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Participant Engagement ◽  
Handheld Projector

The author discusses key findings of a series of video walks developed as part of her practice-based PhD research (2011–2014). Four video walks were produced for handheld projectors and tested in four different public spaces. The first video walks ( The Surface Inside, 2011; I-Walk, 2012) were guided, and only one handheld projector was available. The latter ( Walk-itch, 2013; (wh)ere land, 2014) were created for multiple handheld projectors, offering participants a cocreative role. Onsite observations revealed a shift in participant engagement between earlier and later video walks. A threefold method for analyzing audiovisual documentation also emerged during the research.

scholarly journals Recomposing the City: A Survey of Recent Sound Art in Belfast

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gascia Ouzounian
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Sonic Art ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The City ◽  
Radical Transformation

This article introduces examples of recent sound art in Belfast, a city that has undergone radical transformation over the past decade and is home to a burgeoning community of sound artists. The text investigates the ways in which sonic art can redraw boundaries in a city historically marked by myriad political, socioeconomic, religious and sectarian divisions. The article focuses on sound works that reimagine a “post-conflict” Belfast. These include site-specific sound installations in urban and public spaces, soundwalks, sculptures, locative and online works, and experimental sonic performances that draw upon traditional Irish song and music.

«Get in Your Theatres; the Street is Not Yours»: The Struggle for the Character of Public Space in Tunisia

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Heather Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
And Gender

Abstract How people move and appear in public spaces is a reflection of the cultural, religious and socio-political forces in a society. This article, built on an earlier work titled ’Site-Specific Dance: Women in the Middle East’ (2016), addresses the ways in which dance in a public space can support the principles of freedom of expression and gender equality in Tunisia. I explore the character of public space before, during, and after the Arab Spring uprisings. Adopting an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, I focus on the efforts of two Tunisian dancers – Bahri Ben Yahmed (a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker based in Tunis, who has trained in ballet, modern dance and hip hop) and Ahmed Guerfel (a dancer based in Gabès, who has trained in hip hop) – to examine movement in a public space to address political issues facing the society. An analysis of data obtained from Yahmed and Guerfel, including structured interviews, videos, photos, articles and e-mail correspondence, supports the argument that dance performed in public spaces is more effective in shaping the politics of the society than dance performed on the proscenium stage. Definitions and properties of everyday choreography, site and the proscenium stage are analysed, along with examples of site-specific political protest choreography in Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia. I engage with the theories of social scientist Erving Goffman, which propose that a public space can serve as a stage, where people both embody politics and can embody a protest against those politics.

'The Invisible Reality Show': Performative intervention and the production of the contemporary space

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-278
Author(s):  
FERNANDA GOMES
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
Artistic Experience ◽  
The Invisible

The performance intentions that interfene into public spaces− ‘site-specific performances' – can raise several issues, and this article will debate some of them. From artistic, sociological, cultural and geographic perspectives, urban interventions and performances take place in the artistic scenario and in the development of contemporary space. This article starts with the experience of the Danish group 'Udflugt', that has been in Rio de Janeiro presenting the methodologies and processes which arose after the birth of the concept of 'The Invisible Reality Show' which is used in their work. Through this article I intend to make connections between the perceptive changes of daily space, the processes of sociability, and the artistic experience in the urban context.

scholarly journals In-Between Windowscapes. A Curator’s Perspective on Collaboration as Artistic Activation in Public Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 259-272
Author(s):  
Chun Wai (Wilson) Yeung
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Artistic Collaboration ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
Different Cultures

This paper emphasizes that curatorial practice and site-specific art are essential aspects of the transition from artistic collaboration to collaborative curatorial practice and discovers the new potential of ‘curator as collaborator’ practice to cultivate community-based, collaborative and engaging cultural projects in public spaces. By examining the curatorial residency of my participation in Public Space 50 at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2017, this portfolio investigates how I, as a curator, explore art curation locations and methods to enable students to actively work collaboratively to plan, facilitate and produce public art projects. It asks how to turn public spaces into laboratories; how can student artists work together in public space; how to empower a creative student community through artistic collaboration and how artistic activation can be developed among creative participators of different cultures and backgrounds?

scholarly journals Siting Performance Philosophy: Positions, Encounters and Reflections at Beirut: Bodies in Public

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Ella Parry-Davies ◽  
Eliesh S.D.
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
The City ◽  
A Performance

Beirut: Bodies in Public was a three-day workshop that took place in Beirut, Lebanon from 9-11 October 2014, supported by a Performance Philosophy grant for interim conference events. The workshop integrated academic research with performances, movement workshops, film, and site-specific responses to the city, and welcomed disciplinary perspectives from a broad range of fields. In this article, the convenors Ella Parry-Davies and Eliesh S.D. reflect on the central issues and encounters foregrounded by the event, and the disciplinary or methodological implications of the project for performance philosophy. Taking as its central provocation the controversial statement: “Art in public spaces doesn’t exist anymore”, the workshop sought to address the role of embodied practice in Beirut’s precarious public sites. Insofar as philosophy can be ‘performed’, it is grounded in the particularities of its social space, an utterance shaped by its historical and geopolitical locality. As a practice of performance philosophy, then, Beirut: Bodies in Public triangulated these two forms-of-knowing with a third: the interrogation presented by the site itself - its potentialities, contingencies and challenges.

scholarly journals Inviting Participation through IoT: Experiments and Performances in Public Spaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Fox ◽  
Daniela K. Rosner ◽  
Margaret E. Morris ◽  
Kathi R. Kitner
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Title Page ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Internet Of Things

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This paper proposes a workshop on the Internet of Things (IoT) for participation in public life. We will bring together artists, designers, practitioners, and academics interested in site-specific projects involving lighting and other ambient technologies intended to serve community interests such as representation and safety. The authors share their current inquiry on stairwells as an example. Discussion of this project and others will help us locate, trace, and develop networked environments. </span></p></div></div></div>

From the sound installation to the sound situation: on my work transition – berlin junction eine klangsituation

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORG KLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Site Specificity ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Foreign Material ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Sound Installation ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Expanded Concept

Since mid-1999 I have been working on an expanded concept of musical space not only incorporating space according to its spatial characteristics in the narrow sense (acoustic, architectonic, sculptural, perspective and ambient). Beyond this my installation works conceive of space in its site-specificity, usually existing in several layers: a social layer, a historical-political layer and a situational layer. This concept of space is thus not limited to interior spaces and architectonic-formal relationships, a position which naturally also defines my working methods: only subjective, on-site research yields the theme and concept of an installation. I call such installations sound situations, following the ‘conscious creation of situations’ conceived by Guy Debord (International Situationists) in the 1950s. This means first that I open myself up to situations – usually in public spaces – in order to sense their site-specific tensions and to draw them out in all their possible relationships. Secondly, I alter these situations in order to make them more dense through intensification. The concept can be defined as articulating the space, the site; for this reason I prefer to work with site-specific acoustic and visual material found at the site, but also introduce foreign material when it serves to reinforce communication with the site and its occupants and visitors.

Art’s failure to generate urban renewal: Lessons from Jerusalem

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (15) ◽  
pp. 3474-3491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meirav Aharon-Gutman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Global South ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Specific Intervention ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Art Activities

Based on fieldwork conducted in a seam line neighbourhood in Jerusalem, this article contributes to the ongoing discourse on art in public spaces as a generator of urban renewal. The article suggests that re-thinking this convention from a Global South perspective would enable us to critically discuss the relation between art in public spaces and urban renewal. This research shows how site-specific intervention art activities had produced a conflict that consequently led to the expulsion of the artists group from the neighbourhood. Three theoretical concepts from Hannah Arendt’s work were used in the analysis of the results: political/social, action and public realm. This article claims that the artists’ group has aspired to be simultaneously ‘social’ and ‘political’: by means of a political act they wished to create a ‘dialogue’ and a ‘meeting point’ with Palestinians residing in East Musrara. Every attempt to be simultaneously political and social was perceived by the neighbourhood representatives as deceitful and threatening.

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