Andrea Phillipsi avatud loeng “The Fiction of Public Space”

Kunstiteaduse Instituudi avatud loengute sarjas peab kolmapäeval, 26. novembril kell 18.00 loengu dr Andrea Phillips Londoni Goldsmiths College’ist. Loeng “The Fiction of Public Space” keskendub avaliku ruumi mõiste fiktiivsusele tänapäeva Euroopa linna kontekstis. Loeng toimub Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia saalis, Kohtu 6.

 “Raske on kujutleda Euroopa linna, kus ei oleks avalikku ruumi. Sageli saame sellest aga teadlikuks alles sattudes linnakeskkonda, kus avaliku ruumi olemus on problemaatiline. Avalik ruum on meie linnade arhitektuuris sedavõrd kesksel kohal, et seda peetakse linnaplaneerimise lahutamatuks osaks, mitte ainult esteetilises plaanis, vaid ka ühiskondliku ja moraalse nõudena. Avalikku ruumi on mitmesugust, alates Pariisi ülimalt hoolitsetud parkidest, kus ei ole lubatud muru peal istudagi, kuni Glasgow’ kaubanduskeskust ümbritseva betoonise keskkonnani, kus end liiga mugavalt sisse sättinuil tõenäoliselt edasi liikuda palutakse. Utoopiline kontseptsioon avalikust ruumist kui kõigile ühtemoodi ja tingimusteta avatud, vabalt ligipääsetavast ruumist osutub lähemalt vaatlusel enamikel juhtudel fiktiivseks, kuivõrd nii ajaloolistes kui tänapäeva linnataristutes leidub vaevu lapikest, mida ei läbistaks üksteisega vastuolus olevad ootused, nõuded, regulatsioonid ja ihad. Sedalaadi ruumiline fiktsioon, kus avaliku ruumi kontseptsiooni varjus toimub ruumi jätkuv privatiseerimine, tuleb eriti teravalt esile aladel, kus avalik ruum ja avalikkuse mõiste ise ei ole midagi enesestmõistetavat.”

Andrea Phillips on Londoni ülikooli Goldsmithsi College’i kunstiteaduskonna dotsent ja doktoriprogrammi juht, kelle peamiseks uurimissuunaks on avalikkuse kehtestamise viisid ja vahendid kaasaegses kunstis ja arhitektuuris. 2007 – 2009 oli ta Goldsmiths College’i juurde loodud arhitektuuri kureerimisele pühendatud mõttekoja eestvedaja, uurides arhitektuuri, kureerimise ja arhitektuurinäituste esteetilisi ja poliitilisi aspekte, mille tulemusel valmis ka samateemaline näitus ja kriitiliste artiklite kogumik; samuti on ta kirjutanud arvukalt artikleid kunsti, arhitektuuri, avalikkust ja institutsioonipoliitikat puudutavatesse kogumikesse ning kunsti- ja arhitektuuriajakirjadesse. Hetkel tegeleb ta transrahvusliku ruumi esteetikaga, osaluskultuuri avaldumisvormidega arhitektuuris ning loomepõhise uurimistöö tulevikuväljavaadetega.

Olete oodatud!

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The open lecture series of the Institute of Art History continues with lecture by Andrea Phillips from Goldsmiths College London on Wednesday, November 26th, 6pm at the main hall of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 6 Kohtu St.

The lecture entitled The fiction of public space focuses on fictionality of public space in contemporary European city.

It is difficult to imagine a European city or town without public space. This often only becomes apparent on an encounter with urban environments in different places where the very idea of public space is contested. The architecture of our civic environments is organized around the premise of the centrality and importance of public space, so much so that it is assumed a necessity in urban planning, not simply as an aesthetic device but also a social and moral provision. Public space comes in many forms, from the heavily manicured parks of Paris (where it is not permitted to sit on the grass) to the concretized space outside a shopping center in Glasgow (where you are likely to get moved on if you tried to settle for a while). The utopian concept of public space – that it is free to access, open to all and unconditional – is in all but the fewest cases revealed to be a fiction upon closer examination, in the sense that both historically and in contemporary urban infrastructures there is rarely an area of ground that is not heavily striated by competing requirements, legislations and desires. This type of spatial fiction, in which the concept of the public is used to mask ongoing privatizations, comes into sharp focus in territories where public space and the concept of publicness in itself are not an a priori.

Andrea Phillips is a reader in Fine Art and Director of PhD programmes in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. Andrea lectures and writes about the economic and social construction of publics within contemporary art and architecture.Current publications include: How To Work Together (http://howtoworktogether.org/think-tank/andrea-phillips-how-to-work-together/, Chisenhale Gallery, The Showroom, Studio Voltaire 2014), Remaking the Arts Centre (Cluster: Dialectionary, Sternberg 2014), Art as Property (Economy: Art and the Subject after Postmodernism, Liverpool University Press, 2014), Civic Building (David Adjaye University of Chicago Press 2014) Public Space (A Space Called Public, Walter Koenig 2013), Constructed Situation (Architecture as Situation, University of Edinburgh 2013), Art Work (Esther Shalev-Gerz: The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues, Art & Theory 2013). Recent and ongoing research projects include: Curating Architecture, a think tank and exhibition examining the role of exhibitions in the making of architecture’s social and political forms (AHRC 2007-2009), Actors, Agent and Attendants, a research project and set of publications that address the role of artistic and curatorial production in contemporary political milieus (in collaboration with SKOR 2009-2012), co-director with Suhail Malik, Andrew Wheatley and Sarah Thelwall of the research project The Aesthetic and Economic Impact of the Art Market, an investigation into the ways in which the art market shapes artists’ careers and public exhibition (2010-ongoing), Public Alchemy, the public programme for the Istanbul Biennial 2013 (co-curated with Fulya Erdemci), Tagore, Pedagogy and Contemporary Visual Cultures (http://art.gold.ac.uk/tagore in collaboration with Grant Watson and Iniva, AHRC 2013-2014).

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