Topics

Category Resources

Entries 51 Total

Michael Rakowitz – paraSITE

Mar 23, ’11 4:07 AM

Michael Rakowitz – paraSITE

ParaSITE: Custom built inflatable shelters designed for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building’s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The warm air leaving the building simultaneously inflates and heats the double membrane structure. Built and distributed to over 30 homeless people in Boston and Cambridge, MA and New York City.

PARASITISM IS DESCRIBED AS A RELATIONSHIP IN WHICH A PARASITE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY EXPLOITS THE ENERGY OF A HOST.1

paraSITE proposes the appropriation of the exterior ventilation systems on existing architecture as a means for providing temporary shelter for homeless people.

 

Comments (0)

Michael Rakowitz

Mar 23, ’11 4:00 AM

Michael Rakowitz

(P)LOT questions the occupation and dedication of public space and encourages reconsiderations of “legitimate” participation in city life. Contrary to the common procedure of using municipal parking spaces as storage surfaces for vehicles, (P)LOT proposes the rental of these parcels of land for alternative purposes. The acquisition of municipal permits and simple payment of parking meters could enable citizens to, for example, establish temporary encampments or use the leased ground for different kinds of activities, such as temporary gardens, outdoor dining, game playing, etc.

 

A first initiative for this re-dedication is realized through the conversion of ordinary car covers to portable tents for use as living units or leisure spaces. Ranging from a common sedan to a luxurious Porsche or Lexus, the tents enable a broadcast of desire within the marginalized space of need.

 

 

Comments (0)

Krzysztof Wodiczko – The Homeless Vehicle Project

Mar 23, ’11 3:52 AM


Krzysztof Wodiczko – The Homeless Vehicle Project

This vehicle is neither a temporary nor a permanent solution to the housing problem, it articulates the fact that people are compelled to live on the street and that this is unacceptable. Through discussions with those people in New York City, a proposal for a vehicle to be used both for personal shelter and can and bottle collection and storage was developed. An earlier design was shown to potential users and modified according to their criticism and suggestions. It is not put forward as a finished product, ready for use on the streets, it attempts to function as a visual analog to everyday objects of consumption, such as food vendor carts. It bears a resemblance to a weapon, the movement of carts through New York are acts of resistance.

 

Comments (0)

Ernesto Costa

Mar 23, ’11 3:43 AM

Street Works.

Comments (0)

CalArts Aesthetics and Policy Masters Program

Mar 22, ’11 9:18 PM

CalArts Aesthetics and Policy Masters Program

The MA in Aesthetics and Politics program offers a one-year degree that focuses on the multiplicity of ways in which the aesthetic and the political intertwine: from political art, to the aestheticization of politics, to phenomenological, poststructuralist, feminist, and postcolonial theories of culture, politics, and society.

 

Comments (0)

NYU Art and Politics Masters Program

Mar 22, ’11 9:17 PM

NYU Art and Politics Masters Program

The M.A. in Arts Politics: An Activist, Critical, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

“The time has come to train unique arts activists–capable of activating critical and creative dialogue between art and the world, and committed to reshaping how art is produced, perceived and received.”

The politics that make art. The politics that art makes. This is an opportunity for artists and those working in the intellectual and institutional domains of art to enhance and elaborate the value and significance of their creative endeavors through intensive study, reflection, and engagement with the university and the world. Based at Tisch, the program combines a dedicated core faculty with access to faculty and courses from five different schools at New York University.

 

Comments (2)

The New School Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Mar 22, ’11 9:15 PM

The New School Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Mission

Founded in 1992 and named in honor of the late philanthropist, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School is dedicated to serving as a catalyst for the discourse on the role of the arts in society and their relationship to the sociopolitical climate in which they are created. It seeks to achieve this goal by organizing public programs that respond to the pressing social and political issues of our time as they are articulated by the academic community and by visual and performing artists. The center strives to further the university’s educational mission by bringing together scholars and students, the people of New York, and national and international audiences in an exploration of new possibilities for civic engagement.

 

Comments (0)

Arts Advocacy Day in Washington DC

Mar 22, ’11 9:13 PM

Arts Advocacy Day in Washington DC

The 24th annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America’s cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts.

Comments (0)

Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium

Mar 22, ’11 9:10 PM

Emerging Leaders Symposium

The Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium at American University is an annual meeting for young professionals who work in the arts. It is an opportunity to discuss the issues, unique or universal, that affect arts organizations with students, peers, and experienced professionals.

Organized and run by a team of graduate students in the AU Arts Management Program, the Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium features a keynote address, a networking reception, and multiple professional development sessions held throughout the day.

Comments (1)

Eipcp: institut européen pour des politiques culturelles en devenir

Mar 22, ’11 9:08 PM

Eipcp: institut européen pour des politiques culturelles en devenir

Eipcp: what an ugly name.  Not only because the tongue suffers, trying to say it out loud.  It’s also that the terms and concepts hidden behind the acronym seem not to want to say anything, either individually or configured together:  European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies.  This sounds more banal than ambitious.  What does it mean, this “progressive cultural policy”?  That one wants to reorder today’s hegemonic cultural politics in a progressive manner, and do it on a European scale?  An apparently ambitious aim for a little grouping of free-floating cultural workers who hope that the whole enterprise can be financed through the calculations of the very cultural politics they want radically to change.  And a “European institute”:  how should one understand this?  In any case, not as two corners in a rented room that at the same time also serves as a way-station for Albanian artworks traveling through Europe!

 

Comments (0)