scholarly journals Public Rendition of Authorship: Commemorative Ceremonies in Neo-Avant-Garde Projects by Zabludovsky-Zorica

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Protrka Štimec
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Relationship ◽  
Literature History ◽  
And Performance

Artistic intermedial and interdiscursive projects and performance art events on the artistic stage written by Željko Zorica and his imaginary co-initiator “paleoanthropologist, demonologist, card player and wine drinker, Hans Christian Zabludovsky, PhD” are based on commemorative practices established by historical science and culturology. They refer to mechanisms of history production, question creative processes and evaluate the elusive and complex relationship between collective memory, the political sphere, literature and history. Zorica-Zabludovsky’s books and artistic performances (the erection of memorial plaques in Paris, Zagreb and Oporovec) challenge the “social imaginary” as a fundamental reference of historiographical and critical work, demonstrating that theoretically and politically conscious art does not necessarily interfere with aesthetic experience. This paper analyses them as expression of the transgressive character of post-avant-garde artistic practices—as undertakings that reveal the basic relationship between art, literature, history and public space.

scholarly journals THE FALL OF THE 'PURIFIED' COMMUNITY: CRISIS, TRANSFORMATION & COLLECTIVE ACTION IN GREECE

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Kallianos
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Economic Collapse

The article explores the recent social and political transformations in Greece through events of collective action in the public space of Athens. Drawing on Richard Sennet’s notion of the ‘myth of the purified community’ it is argued that these events demonstrate a gradual disintegration of the social imaginary of the idea of community in various scales (national, local, etc). This argument builds on the indistinction between public and private as reflected in these events in Athens. By providing ethnographic examples from both before and after the economic collapse, the article explains crisis as a long process of contesting the sovereignty of the state and institutions in Greece and how these previously downplayed contestations were rendered visible in the Greek public sphere. This visibility shakes the foundations of the notion of a homogeneous community as it is established by the ‘social contract’.

Sawney’s seat: the social imaginary of the London bog-house c.1660–c.1800

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-127
Author(s):  
Mark Jenner
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Toilet Training ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere

Contemporary culture often works with a toilet-training model of history. This popular version of the past dismisses the pre-modern privy as an epitome and symbol of the era’s supposed hygienic backwardness. Surveying court depositions, medical texts and scatological satires, this chapter challenges these assumptions. It reconstructs the ways in which access to such toilet facilities in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London shaped the use of public space in classed and gendered ways, analyses the ambiguous and provisional forms of privacy afforded by the house of office, and examines how the image of the privy offered satirists ways to discuss the transience of print culture and the public sphere.

scholarly journals Narrative concepts of modern Ukrainian composers’ creations under the influence of myths or socio-cultural environment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Stepurko
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

The purpose of the article is to reveal the modern perception of the world, characterized by the accumulation of facts and events that cause confusion and distrust in the creative personality of new contradictions, discrepancies with real life, forming his creative thinking in a mythological way, based on combinations of different levels of perception. The methodology of the study is based on the studies of R. Bart, K. Bremon, AJ Greimas, K. Levi-Strauss, J. Lotman, W. Propp, P. Reeker, and other scholars who have considered the principles of narratives in the mysteries of the archaic era in historical and cultural orientation, to identify in them common or different from modernity. Narrative concepts of contemporary Ukrainian composers are also considered in the context of research by M. Bakhtin, E. Benvenist, B. Gasparov, E. Paduchev, and others, as a ratio of myth and narrative, given the commonality of metaphor, imagery, and symbolism. Scientific novelty. It is established that the narrative message is an expression of the authors 'desire: to return to the public space the introverted ethos of mystical suggestions of ancient erotic myths, the revival of ancient mythologized historical images, mythological narratives of the "living soul of nature ", synthesis of avant-garde ideas and pagan folklore, pagan mythology and secret rites of Carpathian molfars (magicians), the formation of narratives that are not related to any confessional style of Christian churches, expressing their own understanding of the concept of spirituality, etc. Conclusions. It is found that the narrative understanding of the world in all areas of civilization: in myths, legends, fairy tales, music, cinema, etc., is based on the formation of certain areas of personality behavior as a result of interaction with the world. Completion of this process is marked by the structuring and awareness of one's own "I" as a self-narrator, developing in the social environment in a continuous creative movement.

scholarly journals Transcendence of avant-garde negativity as a determinant of the social position of European music in the 20th century

Muzikologija ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Mirjana Veselinovic-Hofman
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
Negative Dialectic

Starting with Adorno?s negative dialectic and his consideration of musical material as the crucial theoretical notion that implies the negative dialectic core, we examine in this study the deconstructive potential of materialization of some musical antinomies of the 20th century. We follow this materialization from the aspect of transcendence of the antinomy considered as a certain musical ?unit? of negativity. This process is investigated here in reference to the concepts of musical material and the dual determination of music and musical-aesthetic experience, as well as to the musically concrete levels regarding musical substance and language of the avant-garde and post modernity, as representatives of a further possible antinomy: respectively, between the phenomenological and the hermeneutical. Functioning within all these levels individually, the process of transcendence brings about consequences which in our view can be considered as general criteria affecting the social position of European music of the 20th century.

Sea Urchins and Circuses: The Modernist Natural Histories of Jean Painlevé and Alexander Calder

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211
Author(s):  
Patricia E. Chu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Sea Urchins ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One ◽  
Natural Historian

The Paris avant-garde milieu from which both Cirque Calder/Calder's Circus and Painlevé’s early films emerged was a cultural intersection of art and the twentieth-century life sciences. In turning to the style of current scientific journals, the Paris surrealists can be understood as engaging the (life) sciences not simply as a provider of normative categories of materiality to be dismissed, but as a companion in apprehending the “reality” of a world beneath the surface just as real as the one visible to the naked eye. I will focus in this essay on two modernist practices in new media in the context of the history of the life sciences: Jean Painlevé’s (1902–1989) science films and Alexander Calder's (1898–1976) work in three-dimensional moving art and performance—the Circus. In analyzing Painlevé’s work, I discuss it as exemplary of a moment when life sciences and avant-garde technical methods and philosophies created each other rather than being classified as separate categories of epistemological work. In moving from Painlevé’s films to Alexander Calder's Circus, Painlevé’s cinematography remains at the forefront; I use his film of one of Calder's performances of the Circus, a collaboration the men had taken two decades to complete. Painlevé’s depiction allows us to see the elements of Calder's work that mark it as akin to Painlevé’s own interest in a modern experimental organicism as central to the so-called machine-age. Calder's work can be understood as similarly developing an avant-garde practice along the line between the bestiary of the natural historian and the bestiary of the modern life scientist.

Body and Gender within the Stratifications of the Social Imaginary

Hypatia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-118
Author(s):  
Alice Pechriggl
Keyword(s):  
Social Imaginary ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

The Avant-Garde of Sensitivity: On Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s “The Trees”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwia Borowska-Kazimiruk
Keyword(s):  
Visual Representations ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social

The author analyses Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s Trees (1994) in two ways: as a metaphor of the Polish post-1989 transition, and as an eco-horror presenting the complexity of relations between human and plant world. This binary interpretation attempts to answer the question about the causes of the failure of Trees as a film project. The film itself may also be interpreted as a story about historical conditions that affect the ability to create visual representations of the social costs of political changes, as well as ecocritical issues.

Pop-Up Planning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon C.C. Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Space Design ◽  
Creative Placemaking ◽  
Tactical Urbanism ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Public Space Design

Chapter 6 looks at the world of official urban planning and placemaking, providing different perspectives on its relationship to DIY urbanism. Through the voices of professional planners, the chapter explores their conflicted opinions on DIY approaches: criticizing their informality and emphasizing the importance of regulations and accountability for everything from basic functionality to social equity, yet sympathetic to do-it-yourselfers’ frustrations and often excited to adopt their tactics, harness their energy, and exploit their cultural value. The chapter then describes how some DIY projects have found pathways to formal adoption and inspired popular “tactical urbanism” and “creative placemaking” approaches to public space design. Many such interventions can result in innovative public spaces with social, environmental, and economic benefits. But the reproduction of an aesthetic experience selectively inspired by a hip grassroots trend and combined with “creative class” values can mark the resulting spaces themselves as elite and exclusionary.

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