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GMU:Construction - Destruction

2022-12-05T13:00:07Z

Stefan Ralevic:

''[[File:Construction_destruction_s+.jpg|1000px]] ''how DALL·E interprets the topic [https://labs.openai.com/s/bkK0W2zRq1czdCo97bRJLDBF]
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Construction and deconstruction processes can be observed in all areas of activity, there occurring as build up and dismantling. Both activities are mutually dependent. In order to be able to build up, another structure must be broken down. These activities indicate the limited availability of space and time, the need to be thought of in cycles. In their respective contexts, they develop meaning, morality, violence, hope.
They appear to us in non-ending promises of growth in capitalism, the loss of nature through climate change or massive destructions of wars, but also in the natural decay and the natural growth. We are permanently confronted with the phenomena of construction and destruction and have every reason to reflect on them.
In art, Gustav Metzger in his autodestructive art or Mierle Ladermann-Ukeles in her "Maintenance Art" have positioned themselves on this. "Politics of care" also think in a different way about the future. Where do we stand? How do we deal with construction, destruction, poiesis or decay? What processes do we use for our personal research?
The project proposes a practical approach to the topic and offers the opportunity to experiment with the different forms of constructing or destruction and to address their mechanisms of action and their impact in their environment.

I'm curious how you are interpreting construction and destruction and where you see the fields of activities for artists, designers and architects.

Besides the fach courses of my co-workers who wil, this semester, '''Christian Doeller''' will be assisting us with practical support to develop interactive artefacts within the context of the project.

Meetings in presence '''Tuesdays at 9.15 - 12.30 the Digital Bauhaus Lab Bauhaus Strasse 7''', ground floor.
Start: October 18th

== Readings ==

* [https://monoskop.org/images/c/c9/Stiles_Kristine_1987_Synopsis_of_the_Destruction_in_Art_Symposium_and_Its_Theoretical_Significance.pdf Destruction in Art Symposium]
* Anna Tsing: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene ISBN 978-1517902360
* Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel: Critical Zones ISBN 9780262044455
* Paul Virilio: Bunker Archaeology ISBN 978-1568980157
* Andrew Pickering: The Mangle in Practice ISBN 978-0-8223-4373-8
* Mathieu Copeland, Clément Dirié (eds.), 'Gustav Metzger. Writings (1953-2016)', Geneva: JRP Editions, 2019, ill. ISBN 978-3-03764-535-2
* Ursula Damm, Mindaugas Gapsevicius: Shared Habitats ISBN 978-3-8376-5647-3
* Sacha Kagan: Art and Sustainability - Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity ISBN 978-3837618037
* [https://times-of-waste.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/YVolkart_From-Trash_to_Waste-1.pdf Yvonne Volkart: From Trash to Waste]
* Hannah Arendt: The freedom to be free https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/320/320067/the-freedom-to-be-free/9780241472880.html

== Artists ==
* [https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gustav-metzger-7196 Gustav Metzger]
* [https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/capriccio/werkschau-der-amerikanischen-kuenstlerin-joan-jonas-in-muenchen/br-fernsehen/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL3ZpZGVvL2E1NGYwMDA0LTI0ZDUtNGM0Ni1hYjQ1LWI4MWMzYmIwYmY1OA?fbclid=IwAR369QoHCAb8S6Hm9-euv4rZ5T16gOmgdQKG73jVJflTdKjlYvV4jvY2_aQ Joan Jonas in TV]
* [https://vimeo.com/106706806 Yoko Ono Cut piece]
* [https://jennasutela.com/ Jenna Sutela]
* [https://forensic-architecture.org/ Forensic-Architecture]
* [https://www.walidraad.com/ Walid Raad]
* [https://tranxxenolab.net/people/adriana_knouf/ Adriana Knouf]
* [https://archiv.adk.de/bigobjekt/17126 Lutz Dammbeck]
* [https://www.romansigner.ch/ Roman Signer]
* [https://monoskop.org/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles Mierle Laderman Ukeles]
* [https://www.moma.org/artists/6636 Gordon Matta-Clark]
* [https://aesf.art/ AES+F]
* [http://sheldon-brown.net/ Sheldon Brown]
* [https://refikanadol.com/ Refik Anadol (as a phenomenon rather than an artist)]

== Projects ==
* [https://critical-zones.zkm.de/#!/ Critical Zones Web Platform]
* [https://critical-zones.zkm.de/#!/detail:lynn-margulis-archive-arbeitstitel Lynn Margulis: Live is a process]
* [https://critical-zones.zkm.de/#!/detail:perimeter-pfynwald-a-soundscape-observatory Marcus Maeder: Perimeter Pfynwald. A Soundscape Observatory]
* [https://www.julianrosefeldt.com/film-and-video-works/detonation-deutschland-1996/installation-views/ Julian Rosefeldt Detonation Deutschland]
* [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjFyKe8ocb6AhWuhv0HHbjRAK44ChAWegQICBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archplus.net%2Fdownload%2Fartikel%2F5029%2F&usg=AOvVaw1jhIWYdcOJMwoz7aHMDm7p The Architecture Machine Group]
* [https://blogs.otis.edu/in-focus/robots-r-us/ Robotic Chair by Max Dean, Raffaello D'Andrea, Matt Donovan]
* [https://youtu.be/FXY6ocvaZyE Ant Farm Media Burn]
* [https://youtu.be/JRPUjc5jLHM Andreas Angelidakis: The walking building], [https://youtu.be/6EZvOm6zMmk The building who wants to become a mountain (Walking building II]
* [https://vimeo.com/231411671 Johann Grimonprez: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y]
* [https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/peter-campus-on-his-most-famous-work-and-why-he-hates-it/ Peter Campus on 3 transitions]
== Projects related to Artificial Life ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecubes Self replicating cubes]
* [https://news.mit.edu/2019/self-transforming-robot-blocks-jump-spin-flip-identify-each-other-1030 Self-transforming robot]
* [https://alien-project.org/ Artificial Life environment]

== Student work (your contributions) ==

[[Category:WS22]]
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[[Category:Ursula Damm]]
*[[ Amelia Eickhoff]]
* [[Nodari Gogosashvili]]
* Franziska Kraetschmar
* Claas Matti Julius Krause
* Mojjo Krenz
* [[Maximilian Götz]]
* Victoria Mikhaylova
* [[/Martin Müller]]
* Lan Nguyen
* [Stefan Ralevic][https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/User:Stefan_Ralevic]
* Rodrige Saad
* [[/Cosmo Niklas Schüppel]]
* Ece Sungur
* [[/Thai Tai Pham]]

User:Stefan Ralevic

2022-12-05T12:30:00Z

Stefan Ralevic:

[[:File:Found a Home Yet - The Face of a Feeling.pdf]] - old concept

'''1) General framework'''

Luis Camnitzer on “Art Thinking” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItWZPdXfUU https://www.e-flux.com/podcasts/407870/luis-camnitzer-on-one-number-is-worth-one-word

'''2) Positive space'''

Thomas Hirschhorn https://kunstkritikk.com/precarious-workout/

Materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfhsrxp76c

"This returns us to the Deleuzian distinction between the hylomorphic and the morphogenetic—between form imposed from above and form emerging from below—and to a recognition of the important role matter plays in its own self-organization. Matter, in other words, is not inert but active: “We may now be in a position to think about the origin of form and structure, not as something imposed from the outside on an inert matter, not as a hierarchical command from above as in an assembly line, but as something that may come from within the materials, a form that we tease out of those materials as we allow them to have their say in the structures we create." ------- Active Matter, ed. by Skylar Tibbits (MIT Press, 2017), 22

'''3) Negative space'''

Rachel Whiteread https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/18/traumatised-demolition-rachel-whiteread-house-saatchi

"Since a Whiteread cast represents an object through the space it leaves behind, and since the original object is often destroyed to create its image, Whiteread's works are often described in terms of loss. Commentators point out that the viewer has to engage in a process of imaginary recreation, an undertaking which makes us reconsider the original object. It is also argued that the relation of the chosen object to the human body encourages us to apply this pattern of loss and reconsideration to ourselves." ----- https://www.frieze.com/article/rachel-whiteread

https://www.moma.org/artists/7488

Materials: https://materiom.org/search

'''4) Links between positive and negative space'''

https://divinecuration.github.io/2020/01/02/massumi-on-affect.html

Massumi's approach to perception and the philosophy of experience is closely tied to his political philosophy through the theory of affect. Massumi famously distinguishes emotion from affect. Following Spinoza, he defines affect as "the capacity to affect and be affected." This locates affect in encounters in the world, rather than the interiority of a psychological subject. Emotion, he argues, is the interiorization of affect toward psychological expression. He locates affect as such in a nonconscious "zone of indistinction" or "zone of indeterminacy" between thought and action. This zone of indeterminacy is the "field of emergence" of determinate experience, but itself resists capture in functional systems or structures of meaning. ------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_computing

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition/

[https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:Main_piece_-_subject,_everyday.jpeg]
[https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:Mold,_cast_-_active_matter,_screen,_landscape.jpeg]
[https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:Form_inhabited_by_subject_-_total_dasein.jpeg]
[https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:Fragmentation_-_noise_and_pattern.jpeg]
[https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/File:Consolidation_-_postproduction,_affect.jpeg]

User:Stefan Ralevic

2022-12-05T12:27:10Z

Stefan Ralevic:

User:Stefan Ralevic

2022-12-05T12:24:06Z

Stefan Ralevic:

User:Stefan Ralevic

2022-12-05T12:23:43Z

Stefan Ralevic:

[[:File:Found a Home Yet - The Face of a Feeling.pdf]] - old concept

'''1) General framework'''

Luis Camnitzer on “Art Thinking” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItWZPdXfUU https://www.e-flux.com/podcasts/407870/luis-camnitzer-on-one-number-is-worth-one-word

'''2) Positive space'''

Thomas Hirschhorn https://kunstkritikk.com/precarious-workout/

Materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfhsrxp76c

"This returns us to the Deleuzian distinction between the hylomorphic and the morphogenetic—between form imposed from above and form emerging from below—and to a recognition of the important role matter plays in its own self-organization. Matter, in other words, is not inert but active: “We may now be in a position to think about the origin of form and structure, not as something imposed from the outside on an inert matter, not as a hierarchical command from above as in an assembly line, but as something that may come from within the materials, a form that we tease out of those materials as we allow them to have their say in the structures we create." ------- Active Matter, ed. by Skylar Tibbits (MIT Press, 2017), 22

[[File:File:Main piece - subject, everyday.jpeg]]

'''3) Negative space'''

Rachel Whiteread https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jul/18/traumatised-demolition-rachel-whiteread-house-saatchi

"Since a Whiteread cast represents an object through the space it leaves behind, and since the original object is often destroyed to create its image, Whiteread's works are often described in terms of loss. Commentators point out that the viewer has to engage in a process of imaginary recreation, an undertaking which makes us reconsider the original object. It is also argued that the relation of the chosen object to the human body encourages us to apply this pattern of loss and reconsideration to ourselves." ----- https://www.frieze.com/article/rachel-whiteread

https://www.moma.org/artists/7488

Materials: https://materiom.org/search

'''4) Links between positive and negative space'''

https://divinecuration.github.io/2020/01/02/massumi-on-affect.html

Massumi's approach to perception and the philosophy of experience is closely tied to his political philosophy through the theory of affect. Massumi famously distinguishes emotion from affect. Following Spinoza, he defines affect as "the capacity to affect and be affected." This locates affect in encounters in the world, rather than the interiority of a psychological subject. Emotion, he argues, is the interiorization of affect toward psychological expression. He locates affect as such in a nonconscious "zone of indistinction" or "zone of indeterminacy" between thought and action. This zone of indeterminacy is the "field of emergence" of determinate experience, but itself resists capture in functional systems or structures of meaning. ------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_computing

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/72/60480/a-sea-of-data-apophenia-and-pattern-mis-recognition/

User:Stefan Ralevic

2022-12-05T12:21:20Z

Stefan Ralevic:

File:Main piece - subject, everyday.jpeg

2022-12-05T12:03:28Z