scholarly journals Spaces and roles of contemporary art in industrial and technological ruins

2022 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-107
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Cano Sanchiz
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Industrial History ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Technological Waste

This article proposes some potential contributions of contemporary art to industrial and technological heritage discussions. The paper analyses the relations among art, industrial ruins, technological trash, heritage, and society from an archaeological perspective, although this standpoint is compared to and complemented with those of art and art history. First, the text presents how industrial sites and technological artefacts from the recent past are transformed for/by the artists. In doing so, it offers a preliminary basic typology of art-obsolescence relations illustrated with cases from Europe, Asia and the Americas. Four major kinds of interactions are introduced: the conversion of abandoned industrial buildings into art galleries and museums; the transformation of larger obsolete industrial/technological areas into creative hubs; the intervention of artists in industrial ruins; and the creative recycling of technological waste. Second, the text infers from the examples provided in the typology three possible functions of art regarding heritage: revelation/addition of value; mediation between the public and dark heritages; and recognition in technological and industrial history. In the end, the paper defends the role of art in the making of industrial and technological heritages, as well as in reconnecting them to society.

scholarly journals Securitization of (bad) loans to Italian SMES: The role of the public guarantee

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Lucilla Bittucci ◽  
Stefano Marzioni ◽  
Pina Murè ◽  
Marco Spallone
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Main Factors

This study investigates the main factors driving the evolution of the securitization of loans to Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The value of securitization increased in last two years, even though it has not been used as collateral for central banks. The disposal of non-performing loans (NPLs) may have been rather triggered by increasing attention of the international institutions to such an issue, within the general purpose of financial stability. The purpose of this paper is to interpret such a phenomenon focusing on Italian banks and restricting the analysis to the case of securitizations backed with loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The interesting result that emerges, supported by econometrically tested empirical evidence, is that given the orientation of international financial institutions, such as the ECB and the EBA, and reacting to incentives coming from the fiscal policy authorities for the public guarantee of loans, banks have been using securitization to reduce the burden on their bad balance sheets due to (NPLs). It was found that the public guarantee had a positive impact on SME securitization, whereas securitization in other sectors has not been affected significantly. Such evidence suggests that, in the absence of a public guarantee, the financial stability target would have been at risk, and the effectiveness of collateral-based policies in the recent past must be improved to enhance access to credit for SMEs.

scholarly journals The Judicial Implementation of the Provisions of Corporate Crimes in Saudi Law: التنفيذ القضائي لأحكام جرائم الشركات في القانون السعودي

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed bin Fahed al-Subaie
Keyword(s):  
Competent Authority ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Public ◽  
Judicial Implementation ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Commercial Courts ◽  
Commercial Disputes

    This study aimed to identify the judicial implementation of the provisions of corporate crimes in Saudi law and determine the objectives of judicial execution and the competent authority in adjudicating the disputes of commercial companies and the role of lawyers in the trial proceedings in the crimes of commercial companies. Moreover, this study aimed at how to achieve justice in commercial courts. The researcher followed the descriptive method in this study as it has included all texts related to the activities and commercial relations contained in the current regulations. The results of the study reached several results, the most important of which are: The jurisdiction over the consideration of commercial disputes in the Kingdom has passed several stages, but in the recent past it is divided into two parts: the first is the Diwan of Grievances; the second is the committees with jurisdiction. However, Ombudsman for Commercial Disputes. As well as the judicial environment in the Kingdom is living a significant positive movement, especially in the legislative and executive aspects, and the non-unification of commercial judicial bodies in one hand led to duplication of the judiciary and resulted in the presence of more than one body charged with separating with the differentiation of competencies and their overlap in one conflict. The study recommended the need to unify the Saudi commercial judicial bodies in one jurisdiction, the commercial courts of the public judiciary, and rely on modern techniques of telecommuting methods to provide easy communication with lawyers.  

Veronicas and Artists

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way ◽  
Contemporary Artists

Chapter One deals with several central issues with regard to understanding the role of religious motifs in contemporary art. Besides being a repetition of imagery from the past, religious motifs embedded in contemporary artworks become a means to problematise not only the way different periods in the history of art are delimited, but larger and seemingly more rigid distinctions as those between art and non-art images. Early religious images differ significantly from art images. The two types are regulated according to different sets of rules related to the conditions of their production, display, appreciation and the way images are invested with the status of being true or authentic instances of art or sacred images. Chapter One provides a discussion of the important motif of the image not made by an artist’s hand, or acheiropoietos, and its survival and transformation, including its traces in contemporary image-making practices. All images are the result of human making; they are fictions. The way the conditions of these fictions are negotiated, or the way the role of the maker is brought to visibility, or concealed, is a defining feature of the specific regime of representation. While the cult image concealed its maker in order to maintain its public significance, and the later art image celebrated the artist as a re-inventor of the old image, contemporary artists cite religious images in order to reflect on the very procedures that produce the public significance and status of images.

scholarly journals Two decades of change in Dutch university art libraries

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Martien Versteeg
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dutch Art ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Many ◽  
Library User

In 1987 Chris Smeenk wrote in this journal about the libraries of the Dutch art historical institutes. In the 22 years that have since passed many changes have occurred, perhaps most notably the merging of the many autonomous institute libraries into larger ones. Has this led to a more professional approach or was it caused by a search for more efficiency? Does this really matter? The fact is that Smeenk, or any other library user familiar with Dutch art history libraries, would hardly recognise the situation at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Maybe he would complain about the disappearance of the traditional academic institute librarian, but on the other hand he might be cheered by many other developments, such as the more central role of services for the public. Let’s take a look....

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1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Halina Rusak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
York City ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art World ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Insight Into

My involvement as an artist and as an art librarian allows me to see a full spectrum of art history from its inception by an artist to its assessment by an art historian. It enables me to better understand the needs of faculty and students in the field of visual arts, as well as to interface effectively with faculty and scholars in art history. My gallery membership at SOHO 20 in New York City provides me with insight into art trends in the making. It demonstrates well a woman’s place in the contemporary art world, and a role of a critic in promoting or establishing an artist. I feel that this knowledge makes me a better librarian.

Past Resurrections

2020 ◽  
pp. 305-307
Author(s):  
Tamara Chalabi
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art World ◽  
Academic World

This chapter explores the growing need to work with antiquity through contemporary art in order to engage wider audiences with heritage. All too often archaeology is seen through a vague prism of heritage that is disconnected from the present, but working with present-day artists, especially from areas of conflict, interacting with “heritage” offers a dynamic and much-needed exchange. Today, the lauded role of the artist in a society in which the art world is an ever-growing platform can allow for a different conversation on heritage than the current one, which is more limited to dry, policy-related agency papers or the less accessible academic world of Art History and Archaeology. While issues of identity and national, racial, and geographic delineations are so contested today, antiquity—rather than serving to enrich debates—has mostly been too remote in the discussion or consciousness to have the nuanced impact that it can through contemporary art.

scholarly journals Digital Art History for the Masses? The Role of the Public Digital Art History Lab

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-213
Author(s):  
Ellen Prokop
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Massive Datasets ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Masses

Digital Art History (DAH), which embraces massive datasets, innovative methodologies based on computational techniques, and collaborative paradigms, promises to offer new perspectives on the history of art. For example, DAH has the potential to shift the discipline’s focus from the traditional topics of inquiry to less explored aspects of the field—in short, to reposition the discipline’s central preoccupations with the issues of patronage, which are the concerns of the elite, to broader structures at work in a society, including the experiences of the marginalized. This displacement from center to periphery is not restricted to DAH research questions, but often applies to other aspects of DAH as well: to its status within the Digital Humanities (DH); to the demographic it frequently attracts; and to the infrastructure(s) developed to support it. Yet despite this potential, in many respects DAH occupies the periphery. This essay problematizes these issues as crystallized by the establishment of a digital art history lab at a privately funded library that serves the public, and explores one instance of how DAH has forced the North American academy to reflect further on the issues of privilege, access, and the future of art history.

scholarly journals The role of creative and civil initiatives in transforming post-industrial landscapes: A case of study of industrial heritage re-use in the Czech Republic

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Cizler
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Sites ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
Industrial Landscapes

The aim of this research was to examine the role of creative and civil initiatives in the transformation of former industrial sites in the Czech Republic, to indicate positive effects of this approach, as well as to identify limitations and offer recommendations. Research is based on two hypotheses. Based on the evidence of monuments left to decay, being demolished or inadequately used by dominantly commercial interests, the first hypothesis is that the complexity of the re-use of heritage requires new, innovative approaches. Second hypothesis is that, since the creative use of former industrial sites can contribute to the city and its residents trough several significant aspects, it should play a more important role in urban planning and heritage management. This paper is a result of the qualitative research based on observation of the phenomenon of the activation of former industrial buildings and establishing the relationship with theoretical concepts.

scholarly journals ‘Aimless and Absurd Wanderings’? Children at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Franklin ◽  
Michelle Sansom
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Galleries ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Contemporary Artists

AbstractThis article reports on the experience of children at the Museum of New and Old Art (Mona) in Hobart, Tasmania.  Referred to by its innovative owner as a ‘subversive adult Disneyland’, Mona went further than most new contemporary art galleries in designing a radically new experience of art.  It captured the imagination of people new to art in its own locality as well as a global art public.  Favoured by leading international contemporary artists for the freedom it gave art unmediated by art history, Mona also seemingly captured the imagination of children. Through an ethnographic approach in which five young children’s visits were documented in great detail, the article considers these in the light of children’s experiences of previous exhibitionary platforms and the relevance of Mona’s museological interventions for building their dispositions to art and broadening art publics.

scholarly journals Indigenous Peoples as Non-State Diplomatic Actors in the Public/Cultural Diplomacy of Taiwan: a Case Study of Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-92
Author(s):  
Carla Figueira
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
State Actors

State-centred diplomacy is primed by foreign policy objectives. Yet when traditional diplomacy suffers from weaknesses—as in the case of Taiwan—their institutions are advised to revise approaches and to consider engaging non-state actors in their strategies. This article critically explores how Indigenous peoples can be considered non-state diplomatic actors in Taiwan’s public/cultural diplomacy. Considering various definitions of diplomacy and different understandings of the role of non-state actors, the article examines the legitimacy of Taiwanese Indigenous peoples to represent Taiwan internationally and their capacity to shape the perceptions of foreign publics about the country. Further, a contextualised analysis of Dispossessions: Performative Encounter(s) of Taiwanese Indigenous Contemporary Art—an exhibition and series of events that took place in May 2018 at Goldsmiths, University of London—is used to demonstrate how the engagement between Taiwanese Indigenous peoples and foreign publics can happen in practice by examining the event through a public/cultural diplomacy lens.

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