The Art of the Multitude: Jochen Gerz-Participation and the European Experience

ISBN-13: 9783593505640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str.

Jonathen P. Vickery; Mechtild Manus

Opis

Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights. The Art of the Multitude explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemoration of historical events, and the creation of an urban landscape that articulates cultural identity and recognition. Looking in particular at the lifetime's work of one of Europe's foremost artists of the public realm, German conceptual artist Jochen Gerz, The Art of the Multitude uses a variety of artists' works as fulcra for discussing the European experience of war and conflict, peace and reconciliation. And while the artworks discussed and implications thereof are certain to be of interest to art theorists and historians, cultural researchers in policy, public space, and the built environment will all find something to participate in or engage with.

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Contents

Introduction.7

Mechtild Manus and Jonathan P. Vickery

I. On Memory: Artists, Writing and Narratives, History and Testimony

The Artist as Facilitator of Civic Memory: Coventry's The Future Monument and The Public Bench.21

Jonathan P. Vickery

The Tiny Presence of Words.39

Philippe Mesnard

Countermonument in Europe: The Spatial Politics of Artistic Memory-Work.57

Zuzanna Dziuban

II. On Participation: Social Creativity, Culture and Democracy, Citizenship and Its Alternatives

As Art Disappears into Society.83
Hermann Pfütze

Public Authorship as a Multitude of Voices.103

Marion Hohlfeldt

Dissonant Memories and Subversive Memorialization Practices.117

Milena Dragi?evi? Sesi?

III. On Public Space: Cities, Architecture, and Politics

Taking People as They Are and Europe as It Might Be: The Controversy over the Square of the European Promise.137

Volker M. Heins

Civic Remembrance and the Politics of Place.153

Malcolm Miles

Absorbing Disturbances: The Heterotopia as a Model for Monumental Space.173

Niklas Maak

About the Authors.189

Acknowledgements .191

Copyright and Photography Credits.193

Index Works by Jochen Gerz.196

Index Names and Terms.197

O autorze

Jonathan P. Vickery forscht seit vielen Jahren zu Kunst, Stadtentwicklung und Kulturpolitik. Sein besonderes Interesse gilt den politischen und wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen kultureller Entwicklung. Er lehrt am Centre for Cultural Policy Studies der Universität Warwick in Großbritannien und leitet dort das Masterprogramm Arts, Enterprise and Development. Mechtild Manus war für das Goethe-Institut in Lissabon, Alexandria, Jakarta, Montreal und Dublin tätig. Sie kuratierte partizipative Kunstprojekte in Indonesien, Kanada und Irland. Im November 2014 führte sie in Dublin am Irischen Museum für Moderne Kunst das erste internationale Symposium zu Jochen Gerz durch. Seit 2015 betreut sie den Schwerpunkt Kulturen der Partizipation in der Zentrale des Goethe-Instituts in München.