Dr Madeleine Newman
madeleine.newman@leeds-art.ac.uk
(see handout and moodle for more notes)
Michael Landy, Semi-detached, 2004
the meaning of home and a presentation of his childhood and father's life
Architecture and the Body
Rachel Whiteread, Ghost, 1990
interior cast of her own studio – memories and experiences
Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974
intervening in the architectural structure, subversie connotations about relationships in the home
The homely vs the 'unhomely'
homely – unhomely
domestic – haunted house
family and childhood – surreal
sanctuary – subversive
memory- psychic
nostalgia – fragmented
experience – dostorted
lived space- nightmare
structure – form - body
architecture – 'the complex or carefully designed structure of something' OED
however a hiatory of architectural theory and practice is keen to draw attention to the actual 'lived experience' of this space
the inhabitant – us – who experience the architecture through our bodies
place
'noun 1. a particular position, point or area in space; a location'
space
'noun 1. continuous area or expanse which is free, available or unoccupied'
Theory & Philosophy
Michael Foucault: Relational Space/Social Space
Gaston Bachelard: Relationship between space and time
What are the critical perspective and methodologies that we have available to think through them?
- The Carayaid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens, 412-407 BC
- Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1487
The body and the city
- Fritz Lang, Metropolis, 1927
- Archigam, Walking City, 1964
- Le Corbusier, Le Modular, 1948
Mapping intersections between body and space in At Practice:
minmalism – body, object, space, 1960s
gender and space – the feminist critique of gendered space, 1970s
postmodernism – changing the status of space and experience, 'non-place', global and collective space, 1980s onwards
Minimalism
America – 1960s – reaction to modernist painting
aimed to reduce art to abstract themes of space, shapes, materials etc
Robert Morris, Untitled (mirrored cubes), 1965
mirrors used to extend space
Minimalist object
Robert Morris, Installation Green Gallery, New York, 1964
Bruce Nauman, Green Light Corridor, 1970
Mary Miss, Perimeters/Pavillions/Decoys, 1978
Robert Smithsom, Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970
Andrea Zittel, Fifty-four-ton Floating Island, A-Z Pocket Property
'Lived Space'
focussing on the bodies relationship to space – movement, boundaries, experience
Rebecca Horn, Scratching Both Walls at Once, 1974-5
Bruce Nauman, Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Round the Perimeter of a Square
Phenomenology
- tells us that we experience the world through our body – we are an extension of it, it is only by having a body that we experience the world
- Philosopher Edward Casey – 'The places we inhabit are known by the bodies we live'
key theorist – Maurice Merlaeu-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 1945
- 'there would be no space at all for me if I had no body'
Robert Morris, The Present Tense of Space, 1978
Shepard Fairey, Phenomenology of the City, Manifesto, 1990\
- The OBEY sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in phenomenology
Gender and Space: Critical Approaches
Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender, 1994
Louise Bourgeois, Femme Maison, 1946-7, ink on linen
Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, Womanhouse, Los Angeles, 1972
Helen Chadwick, In the Kitchen, 1976
Postmodernism:
non-place, collective space, liquid modernity – Zygmunt Bauman, deterritorialisation, globalisation
Non – Places
Marc Auge , Non-Places: An introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 1992
Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent, 1999
Andreas Gursky, Terminal Five, Heathrow Airport
Reclaiming Space and Place?
Mariko Mori, Body Capsule Project, Beginning if the End: Past, Present, Future, 1995-2006
Lucy Orta, Refuge Wear – Habitent, 1992-3
Lucy Orta, Nexus Architecture X 50, Intervention Koln, 2001
Ineteriority: Psychic Space/ Surreal Space
exploration of relationship between space, place and the body in the visual arts
two key exhibitions
- Hayward Gallery, Walking in My Mind: Adventure into the Artist's Imagination, 2009
mental and psychic space, interiority, experience, creativity, alternate places, escape, intersections between art and architecture
- Barbican Art Gallery, The Surreal House, 2010
surrealism, psychoanalysis, feeling, fractured entity, the container object
'The Surreal House' – performance and film
Jan Svankmajer, The Jabberwocky, 1971
Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943
Lucy Gunning, Climbing Around My Room, 1993
Friday, 27 January 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012
Cities and Film
Helen Clarke
helen.clarke@leeds-art.ac.uk
The city in modernism
The possibility of an urban sociology
The city as a public and private space
The city in postmodernism
The relation if the individual in the crowd in the city
Georg Simmel 1858-1918
- German sociologist
- writes Metropolis and Mental life in 1903
- influences critical theory of the Fankfurt School thinkers
- asked to lecture on the role of intellectual life in the city but instead reverses it and writes about the effect of the city on the individual
Urban Sociology
- the resistance of the individual ti being levelled or swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism – The Metropolis and Mental Life
example – Lewis Hine 1932
Architect – Louis Sullivan 1856-1924
- creator of modern skycraper
- coins the phrase 'form follows function'
- writer of 'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered'
- detail in Guaranty Building – physical and visual organisation of the building
Carson Pirie Scott store in Chicago 1904
- skyscrapers represent the upwardly mobile city of business oppurtunity
Manhatta 1921 Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler
- unstructured as such – a series of shorts played consecutively and interrupted by quotes and stills
Charles Scheeler
- Ford Motor Company's plant at River Rouge, Detroit 1927 – hired to paint the building, celebration of the building's form as opposed to the work that happens within it
Fordism: Mechanised Labour Relation
- coined by Antonio Gramsci in his essay “Americanism and Fordism”
- essentially mass producing low cost goods and giving decent wages to buy the products they are making – constant cycle of making and buying
Modern Times – Charlie Chaplin 1936
Stock Market Crahs of 1929
- factories close and unemployment rises
- leads to 'The Great Depression'
Man With a Movie camera Dziga Vertov 1929
- silent film showing various new types of filming and editing skills that has otherwise been unused or unheard of
Flaneur
- the terms comes from a French masculine noun which has the basic meanins of stroller, lounger, saunterer, loafer etc which in turn comes from the French meaning of 'to stroll'
Charles Baudelaire
- extends this idea to give the flaneur a creative purpose
- 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'
Walter Benjamin
- adopts the concept of the urban observer as an analytical tool and as a lifestyle in his writings
- Arcade Project 1927-1940 – book about Parisian city life in the 19th century, his final and unfinished work
- Berlin Chronicle - Berlin Childhood memoirs
Photographer as a Flaneur
- Susan Sontag On Photography
- ' the photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker...the flaneur finds the city picturesque'
Flaneuse
- The Invisible Flaneuse – Women and the Literature of Modernity
- Janet Wolff
- Theory, Culture & Society November 1985 vol. 2 no. 3 37-46
- the idea that the literature is based on and for men almost exclusively and that this should not be the way
Susan Buck-Morss
- the concept that the only 'lady' on the street is presented as either a prostitute or a homeless person
- one extreme or another
Arbus
- Woman at Counter Smoking, NYC 1962
Hopper
- Automat 1927
Sophie Calle – Suite Venitienne 1980
- essentially stalks a man around Venice, romanticises the story making a fictional attachment to the man
The Detective 1980
- wants to provide photographic evidence of her existence
- his photos and notes are on display next to her photos and notes about home
- set in Paris and again fictionally romanticised
Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Stills 1977-1980
Weegee Arthur Felig
- documentary of murder and injuries involved in police investigations in New York
- intercepted police radio signals in order to get to scenes quickly
The Naked City 1945 – collection of photos
The Naked City 1948 – Film Noire film based around the narrative from the previous photos
La Noire 2011
- the first video game to be shown at the Tribecca Film Festival
Cities of the Future/Past – Fritz Lang
Ridley Scott – Bladerunner
Lorca di Corcia Heads, NY 2001
-series of photos of police offers,criminals, businessman etc taken in secret with a tripwire set up for lighting and and taken from a great distance with a telephoto lense
- give the images a film still quality taking the individual out of the crowd and making them seem separate from the crowd
- One of the subjects, Ermo Nussenzeig an orthadox Jew, was against his photograph being taken and published against his view – this was taken to court and fell in favour of the photographer due to its presentation of art
Walker Evans Many Are Called 1938
- concealed cameras to take unknows pictures of city dwellers
Postmodern City
- suggests the city as a place to get lost in – not dissimilar to the example of Vencie mentioned earlier
Postmodern City in Photography – Joel Meyerowitz
- vivid colour and lack of composition gives an impression of being lost and enveloped in a city
- documenting the chaos of the city in some ways
9/11 Citizen Journalism – the end of the flaneur?
- Liz Wells talks about this and the effect of disasters or terrorism on individuals and the concept of citizen journalism
- results in the end of the flaneur and the unity of all of the people within the city
Surveillance City
- terrorism has resulted in much higher levels of CCTV and documentation, in theory for our safety but also as a means of constantly watching us – links with Panopticism
helen.clarke@leeds-art.ac.uk
The city in modernism
The possibility of an urban sociology
The city as a public and private space
The city in postmodernism
The relation if the individual in the crowd in the city
Georg Simmel 1858-1918
- German sociologist
- writes Metropolis and Mental life in 1903
- influences critical theory of the Fankfurt School thinkers
- asked to lecture on the role of intellectual life in the city but instead reverses it and writes about the effect of the city on the individual
Urban Sociology
- the resistance of the individual ti being levelled or swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism – The Metropolis and Mental Life
example – Lewis Hine 1932
Architect – Louis Sullivan 1856-1924
- creator of modern skycraper
- coins the phrase 'form follows function'
- writer of 'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered'
- detail in Guaranty Building – physical and visual organisation of the building
Carson Pirie Scott store in Chicago 1904
- skyscrapers represent the upwardly mobile city of business oppurtunity
Manhatta 1921 Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler
- unstructured as such – a series of shorts played consecutively and interrupted by quotes and stills
Charles Scheeler
- Ford Motor Company's plant at River Rouge, Detroit 1927 – hired to paint the building, celebration of the building's form as opposed to the work that happens within it
Fordism: Mechanised Labour Relation
- coined by Antonio Gramsci in his essay “Americanism and Fordism”
- essentially mass producing low cost goods and giving decent wages to buy the products they are making – constant cycle of making and buying
Modern Times – Charlie Chaplin 1936
Stock Market Crahs of 1929
- factories close and unemployment rises
- leads to 'The Great Depression'
Man With a Movie camera Dziga Vertov 1929
- silent film showing various new types of filming and editing skills that has otherwise been unused or unheard of
Flaneur
- the terms comes from a French masculine noun which has the basic meanins of stroller, lounger, saunterer, loafer etc which in turn comes from the French meaning of 'to stroll'
Charles Baudelaire
- extends this idea to give the flaneur a creative purpose
- 'a person who walks the city in order to experience it'
Walter Benjamin
- adopts the concept of the urban observer as an analytical tool and as a lifestyle in his writings
- Arcade Project 1927-1940 – book about Parisian city life in the 19th century, his final and unfinished work
- Berlin Chronicle - Berlin Childhood memoirs
Photographer as a Flaneur
- Susan Sontag On Photography
- ' the photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker...the flaneur finds the city picturesque'
Flaneuse
- The Invisible Flaneuse – Women and the Literature of Modernity
- Janet Wolff
- Theory, Culture & Society November 1985 vol. 2 no. 3 37-46
- the idea that the literature is based on and for men almost exclusively and that this should not be the way
Susan Buck-Morss
- the concept that the only 'lady' on the street is presented as either a prostitute or a homeless person
- one extreme or another
Arbus
- Woman at Counter Smoking, NYC 1962
Hopper
- Automat 1927
Sophie Calle – Suite Venitienne 1980
- essentially stalks a man around Venice, romanticises the story making a fictional attachment to the man
The Detective 1980
- wants to provide photographic evidence of her existence
- his photos and notes are on display next to her photos and notes about home
- set in Paris and again fictionally romanticised
Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Stills 1977-1980
Weegee Arthur Felig
- documentary of murder and injuries involved in police investigations in New York
- intercepted police radio signals in order to get to scenes quickly
The Naked City 1945 – collection of photos
The Naked City 1948 – Film Noire film based around the narrative from the previous photos
La Noire 2011
- the first video game to be shown at the Tribecca Film Festival
Cities of the Future/Past – Fritz Lang
Ridley Scott – Bladerunner
Lorca di Corcia Heads, NY 2001
-series of photos of police offers,criminals, businessman etc taken in secret with a tripwire set up for lighting and and taken from a great distance with a telephoto lense
- give the images a film still quality taking the individual out of the crowd and making them seem separate from the crowd
- One of the subjects, Ermo Nussenzeig an orthadox Jew, was against his photograph being taken and published against his view – this was taken to court and fell in favour of the photographer due to its presentation of art
Walker Evans Many Are Called 1938
- concealed cameras to take unknows pictures of city dwellers
Postmodern City
- suggests the city as a place to get lost in – not dissimilar to the example of Vencie mentioned earlier
Postmodern City in Photography – Joel Meyerowitz
- vivid colour and lack of composition gives an impression of being lost and enveloped in a city
- documenting the chaos of the city in some ways
9/11 Citizen Journalism – the end of the flaneur?
- Liz Wells talks about this and the effect of disasters or terrorism on individuals and the concept of citizen journalism
- results in the end of the flaneur and the unity of all of the people within the city
Surveillance City
- terrorism has resulted in much higher levels of CCTV and documentation, in theory for our safety but also as a means of constantly watching us – links with Panopticism