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Tag Archives: Art and Revolution
Struggles for space: Profaning architectural practice (5)
For our series, Struggles for space, we share below an essay entitled Playing in Space: Profaning Architectural Practice by a friend who has formerly published with Autonomies, Carlos Jacques. The essay originally appeared in Philosophy@Lisbon: International eJournal: Centro de Filosofia da … Continue reading
A poet of movement: For Pierre Etaix
A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts. The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves. Joy is like a river: it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which the … Continue reading
The passing of a court jester: For Dario Fo
The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I’ve felt that way, too. That’s the way I am. That’s life. That’s the way it will always be. The suffering of this or that person grips me because there is no … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Queering straight space: Thinking towards a queer architecture (4)
We share an essay below by Carlos Jacques, a friend of Autonomies. The essay, entitled “Queering straight space: Thinking towards a queer architecture” was presented as a paper at the conference, Matrices: 2nd International Congress on Architecture and Gender, Universidade Lusófona … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Feminism, LGBT
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Struggles for space: Architecture Without Architects—Another Anarchist Approach (3)
Le Corbusier. Structural skeleton of Maison Dom-ino, 1914-15. In essence, Modern city planning has always been bound to colonialism and imperialism—many large-scale technical developments were even tested and realized on colonial ground. Colonial modernity not only created global political and … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Architecture and anarchy, a mismatched couple (2)
This is the second post of a series of essays that we share exploring the troubled relations of anarchism and architecture, or, stated differently, the possibilities of an anarchic dismantling of the masters’ command of space. In the instance, … Continue reading
The Art of Occupy
The beginning spills through city veins Into the arteries And under powers poison clouds We move like the shadows Through the alley ways Through nightmares bought and sold as dreams Through barren factories Through boarded schools Through rotting fields Through … Continue reading
For Marc Riboud
When somebody asks me what my best photograph is, I answer, I hope to do it tomorrow and thus try to change my way of seeing. Marc Riboud Few photographic journalists traveled the 20th century as Marc Riboud, both in … Continue reading
Struggles for space: Anarchism, architecture and anarchitecture (1)
If there is no art without architecture (for are not most of what we call the “fine arts” housed?) and if architecture is the arkhi-chief-master tekhne-art and the architect the master tekton-artist-artisan-builder, then the anarchist should find little affinity with … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Architecture, Art and Revolution, Colin Ward
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Struggles for space: Hijacking spaces of authority (6)
To momentarily conclude our series dedicated to struggles for space, we close with the work of the anarchitecture collective, Space Hijackers. A London based group, active between 1999 and 2014, it sought to sabotage architectural hierarchies of built space. The … Continue reading →