Architekturvortrag Philip Ursprung COMMONWEALTH: THE WORLD AS LOUNGE
Architekturvortrag Philip Ursprung COMMONWEALTH: THE WORLD AS LOUNGE
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THE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES 2010
Thema
In their recent book Commonwealth Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri make some arresting remarks on the relationship between the private and the public. Although they share the widespread protest against privatization they are critical of the prevalent view that the only alternative to the private is the public, because this dichotomy fails to take account of what they describe as "common." Can their notion of "common" help us to analyze some of the preeminent positions between art and architecture of the last couple of years? The presentation will focus on artistic interventions on an urban scale, from Pipilotti Rist and Carlos Martinez' Stadtlounge in St. Gallen to the interventions by Olafur Eliasson in Berlin and Ernesto Neto in London.
Philip Ursprung
is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Zürich. He is editor of Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (2002), author of Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening, Robert Smithson und die Lande Art (2003) and Die Kunst der Gegenwart (2010).
THE ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES 2010
Thema
In their recent book Commonwealth Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri make some arresting remarks on the relationship between the private and the public. Although they share the widespread protest against privatization they are critical of the prevalent view that the only alternative to the private is the public, because this dichotomy fails to take account of what they describe as "common." Can their notion of "common" help us to analyze some of the preeminent positions between art and architecture of the last couple of years? The presentation will focus on artistic interventions on an urban scale, from Pipilotti Rist and Carlos Martinez' Stadtlounge in St. Gallen to the interventions by Olafur Eliasson in Berlin and Ernesto Neto in London.
Philip Ursprung
is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Zürich. He is editor of Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (2002), author of Grenzen der Kunst: Allan Kaprow und das Happening, Robert Smithson und die Lande Art (2003) and Die Kunst der Gegenwart (2010).