Cultural Hijack: Rethinking InterventionBen Parry, Sally Medlyn, Myriam Tahir Liverpool University Press, 1 janv. 2011 - 319 pages Cultural Hijack explores our unforeseen encounters with creative action in the sites and situations of the urban everyday. These interventions and disruptions of habitual behaviours and perceptions by the anomalous and the out-of-place challenge us in radical ways to rethink our relationship to the urban environment. Cultural Hijack positions the artist as narrator, revealing the thinking behind interventions as well as the process of their creation and reception, to expose the ways in which the city becomes the playground, stage and instrument for unsanctioned artworks, informal creative practices, activist interventions and overtly political actions. Cultural Hijack aims to enrich our understanding of the creative process, highlighting artists' development of new weapons in the arsenal of critical resistance, expanding and emancipating the spaces of artistic and cultural production. The interventionist becomes a catalyst for a 'user-generated' city, whose tactical procedures are reinventing the way art is encountered and experienced. Together they form an emergent culture of appropriations of city infrastructure: acts of infiltration, subversion and reclamation that generate individual and collective empowerment within the city. In this book Jump Ship Rat have brought together personal testimonies and original interviews, from bgl, Alan Dunn, Nina Edge, Gelitin, Peter McCaughey, Tatzu Nishi, Michael Rakowitz, Krzysztof Wodiczko and others, to provide unique insight into the work and the life of the interventionist artist. Cultural Hijack is a book of ideas about reclaiming our right to the city. We invite you to rummage through this creative toolbox as inspiration for a do-it-yourself urbanism. |
Table des matières
Acknowledgements 45 | 4 |
An Other Proposition Situating Reciprocal Practice | 41 |
Spaces of Urgency | 81 |
Third Party Fire and Theft | 125 |
Squart | 149 |
Swapping Public and Private | 173 |
Krzysztof Wodiczko | 191 |
IO From Bellgrove to Lime Street Return | 220 |
Gelitin | 245 |
If thats Grassroots then were Mudlevel | 265 |
But is it Life? | 307 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
activities Alan Dunn Allan Kaprow anonymous architecture art space art world art-squat artists artwork audience became become Bellgrove billboard building challenge Chauchat cinema communication contemporary art context create creative critical cultural hijack culture jamming Dark Matter demolition developed encounter engage event everyday exhibition experience façade film function Futurist gallery Gelatin Gelitin Glasgow Gordon Matta-Clark happen homeless idea installations interest intervention invisible invited Iraq Iraqi Jamie Reid Jump Ship Rat Krzysztof Wodiczko live Liverpool Biennial Matta-Clark memory Mersey Michael Rakowitz monument museum Palais de Tokyo paraSITE Paris Park Parry participants Peter McCaughey photograph play political possible practice public art public space reception regeneration residents response sculpture sense shelter situation social sound squat story tactics talk temporary temporary autonomous zone tenantspin things unsanctioned urban Veteran Vehicle wanted Welsh Streets white cube window Yabon Paname York