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Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health
Editors: Andrea Phillips and Markus Miessen
The first volume in the Actors, Agents and Attendants series of publications and symposia commissioned and initiated by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain to investigate the role of cultural practice in the organization of the public domain.
Caring Culture: Art, Architecture and the Politics of Public Health examines changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies and asks how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations. The publication brings together case studies of artistic and design interventions within health and social care institutions, and broader political and philosophical essays and interviews relating to civic 'wellbeing'.
This publication is in most part a collection of papers, conversations and art and design works, which was presented at the symposium Speculations on the Cultural Organisation of Civility, organised by SKOR in Amsterdam in October 2010. The first event is a result of the research project Actors, Agents and Attendants. It took as its theme 'public caring' and asked: “who cares?”, “who should care?”, and – perhaps most pertinently in a contemporary context – “how might the concept of care be reclaimed through creative practices and proactive engagement from its increasingly apparent consensualized and paternalistic political formulation?”.
In Caring Culture the editors have brought together professionals from vastly different fields of knowledge and experience to discuss what we perceive to be a crisis in the formulation and implementation of concepts of care through medicine, art and contemporary politics. They do so as members of the Actors, Agents and Attendants research project. The focus of which is the role of art making and commissioning in the construction and critique of contemporary civility.
Contributors include curators, artists, politicians, architects and healthcare professionals: Nils van Beek, Marc Bijl, [removed] Bronson, Beatriz Colomina, Elmgreen & Dragset, Martijn Engelbregt, Fulya Erdemci, Mark Fisher, Margreet Fogteloo, Mika Hannula, Mari Linnman, Marien van der Meer, Markus Miessen, Merijn Oudenampsen, Andrea Phillips, Edi Rama, Robert Sember/Ultra-red, Studio Makkink & Bey, Sally Tallant, Anton Vidokle, Dmitry Vilensky/Chto Delat, Steven de Waal, Huib Haye van de Werf, Mierle Laderman Ukeles.
Published by Sternberg Press
November 2011, English
[removed] x [removed] cm, 384 pages, 60 color and b/w ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-71-9
$ [removed] | € 25,00
Release and Special Price
November 4 – 5, 2011
At the second AAA symposium Social Housing – Housing the Social
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November 4 – 5, 2011
Felix Meritis (Amsterdam, NL)
The second edition of Actors, Agents and Attendants, a series of symposia initiated by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain. This two-day symposium emphasises the relationship between the waning political and practical imperative of social housing and the broader conceptual or philosophical idea of 'housing the social'.
The programme of the symposium combines keynote lectures, presentations and panel sessions with specific case studies, discussions, performances and film screenings. Please note the official language is English.
Contributors & Key-Note Speakers
Yazid Anani (architect, Birzeit University, Palestine), Laura Burkhalter (architect, Institute for Bionomic Urbanism, USA), Joana Conill (film director, S), Chto Delat (artist collective, R), Adri Duivesteijn (politician, PvdA, NL), DUS Architects (architect collective, NL), Zoran Eric (curator, MOCA Belgrade, SER), Fallen Fruit (art and activist collective, USA), Bregtje van der Haak (documentary filmmaker, NL), Jeanne van Heeswijk (artist, NL), Ernst van den Hemel (philosopher and activist, NL), Jiang Jun (editor-in-chief, Urban China Magazine, CN), Chris Keulemans (artistic director, Tolhuistuin, NL), Sabrina Lindemann (artist, NL), Don Mitchell (urban geographer, Syracuse University, USA), Merijn Oudenampsen (social and political scientist, NL), Marjetica Potrc (artist and architect, SLO), Partizan Publik (design and action collective), Recht auf Stadt (activists, Hamburg, D), Arnold Reijndorp (urban sociologist UvA, NL), Miguel Robles-Duran (architect, Parsons The New School for Design, USA), Arno van Roosmalen (director STROOM, NL), Martha Rosler (artist, USA), Christoph Schaefer (artist, D), Pelin Tan (sociologist/art historian, KHAS University Istanbul, TR), Ultra-red (artist collective, international) and Roman Vasseur (artist, UK).
Curators Fulya Erdemci (SKOR) and Andrea Phillips (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Associate curator and coordinator Vesna Madzoski (SKOR)
Architectural advisor Markus Miessen (Studio Miessen)
Curators Film Programme Yael Messer and Gilad Reich
Coordinator Art Collaboration Fleur van Muiswinkel
Research Group Arno van Roosmalen (director, Stroom Den Haag), Bregtje van der Haak (documentary filmmaker), Chris Keulemans (artistic director, Tolhuistuin Amsterdam), Ernst van den Hemel (philosopher and activist, University of Amsterdam), Huib Haye van der Werf (curator, SKOR), Nils van Beek (curator, SKOR), Partizan Publik (design and action collective, Amsterdam), and Theo Tegelaers (curator, SKOR)
Interns Laura Pardo and Michelle Franke (including photo).
Admission
2-day admittance: € 40,-
1-day admittance: € 25,-
Reduced fee for students and persons aged 26 and under
2-day admittance: € 25,
1-day admittance: € 15,-
Admittance includes:
symposium booklet, coffee, lunch, dinner and refreshments.
Registration is possible here
Extended deadline November 2, 2011!
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Saturday October 29, 2011 at 3 PM
Kriterion (Amsterdam, NL)
Session 4 New Communities
Film California Dreaming by Bregtje van der Haak (NL, 2010), 49 min.
Video art Project Cabrini Green by Jan Tichy (CZ, 2011), presentation and screening, 10 min.
Admission € 6,50
California Dreaming follows a number of people who have been directly affected by the American economic crisis. While some of the stories show the struggle to survive under the new precarious conditions of life, others bring optimism into the American dream by exhibiting different forms of socialization and alternative living.
Project Cabrini Green is a community-based art project and light installation, where Tichy and his students lit up a neighborhood building which was about to be demolished. The light installation was visible in the evenings during the four-week demolition period. As the building was demolished, the lights went down, along with the building.
Film Still: California Dreaming by Bregtje van der Haak (NL, 2010) ©VPRO
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