Risco: Revista de Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (Online), 2007
5 1[2007 revista de pesquisa em arquitetura e urbanismo programa de pós-graduação do departamento... more 5 1[2007 revista de pesquisa em arquitetura e urbanismo programa de pós-graduação do departamento de arquitetura e urbanismo eesc-usp r sco Urban negotiation, art and the production of public space Abstract Urban Negotiations are art strategies that find possibilities for art to engage in the urban environment. Urban Negotiations are collaborative and participatory actions in the production of public and private space. An Artwork for an Imperfect World is a collaborative work with Temple Bar Gallery, Merchants Quay Ireland (NGO) and people suffering homelessness. For a duration the gallery became host, a place of hospitality, were each evening dinner was served from a redesigned Van. The artwork now functions as a mobile needle exchange unit in the streets of Dublin. Nomadic Kitchen is an interstitial art initiative that engages in the process of negotiating the urban environment with the residents of Vila Nova, São Miguel Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil). The structure functions as a locus where residents self govern and develop flexible and creative ways of building a context for living. The structure of Nomadic Kitchen is flexible, fluid, and adaptable to different occasions and contexts. Urban decisions around producing public and social space are made while cooking, eating and meeting in the Nomadic Kitchen. This interstitial structure becomes a place of dialogue while defining the conditions that determine public and private space.
Urban Negotiations and Art Tactics are art strategies that find possibilities for art to engage i... more Urban Negotiations and Art Tactics are art strategies that find possibilities for art to engage in real life issues. Nomadic Kitchen is an interstitial transversal artwork that occupies a place between art and urban space. This work engages with issues of self-organization, in the process negotiating the urban environment with the residents of Vila Nova, a favela community in Sao Miguel Brazil. Vila Nova is in a process of regeneration but this does not sanitize the conflict of local conditions, it is within the contradictions of conflict that new ideas emerge for models for urbanity. Nomadic Kitchen is one urban practice among many in a collaborative and participatory action in the production of public and private space. The artwork operates as bricolage within and across the transversal field of operation that includes institution and post-institutional art practice. The emergent strategies for this artwork evolved through a series of workshops with residents of Vila Nova. The field of production creates a place of selforganisation between participants. The project embraces 'informality' as another kind of intelligence whose tactics bring a collective visibility to the project and other kinds of urban negotiations. The structure functions as a locus where residents self govern and develop flexible and creative ways of building a context for living. The transversal field of Nomadic Kitchen invests in a desiring production that is flexible, fluid, nomadic and adaptable to different occasions and contexts of informal urban practices. Urban decisions around producing public and social space are made while cooking eating and meeting in the Nomadic Kitchen. This interstitial sculptural structure becomes a place of dialogue while defining the circumstances that determine its situated conditions and public space. The consequences of Nomadic Kitchen explore the potential limits of art production as an urgent action in creating an aesthetic-ethical-spatialpolitics.
Everywhere it 1 is machines -real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, wit... more Everywhere it 1 is machines -real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections…we are all handymen: each with his little machines. For every organ-machine an energy-machine: all the time, flows and interruptions." 2 The concept machine is one of a number of key concepts appropriated from the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari, an agile enough concept to operate at the level of the individual, small groups of people, society and the state. It works across and between the leakage and escape routes of the dogmatic and ridged structures of politics and spatial organisation offering mobility and flexible strategies for urban action.
Risco: Revista de Pesquisa em Arquitetura e Urbanismo (Online), 2007
5 1[2007 revista de pesquisa em arquitetura e urbanismo programa de pós-graduação do departamento... more 5 1[2007 revista de pesquisa em arquitetura e urbanismo programa de pós-graduação do departamento de arquitetura e urbanismo eesc-usp r sco Urban negotiation, art and the production of public space Abstract Urban Negotiations are art strategies that find possibilities for art to engage in the urban environment. Urban Negotiations are collaborative and participatory actions in the production of public and private space. An Artwork for an Imperfect World is a collaborative work with Temple Bar Gallery, Merchants Quay Ireland (NGO) and people suffering homelessness. For a duration the gallery became host, a place of hospitality, were each evening dinner was served from a redesigned Van. The artwork now functions as a mobile needle exchange unit in the streets of Dublin. Nomadic Kitchen is an interstitial art initiative that engages in the process of negotiating the urban environment with the residents of Vila Nova, São Miguel Paulista (São Paulo, Brazil). The structure functions as a locus where residents self govern and develop flexible and creative ways of building a context for living. The structure of Nomadic Kitchen is flexible, fluid, and adaptable to different occasions and contexts. Urban decisions around producing public and social space are made while cooking, eating and meeting in the Nomadic Kitchen. This interstitial structure becomes a place of dialogue while defining the conditions that determine public and private space.
Urban Negotiations and Art Tactics are art strategies that find possibilities for art to engage i... more Urban Negotiations and Art Tactics are art strategies that find possibilities for art to engage in real life issues. Nomadic Kitchen is an interstitial transversal artwork that occupies a place between art and urban space. This work engages with issues of self-organization, in the process negotiating the urban environment with the residents of Vila Nova, a favela community in Sao Miguel Brazil. Vila Nova is in a process of regeneration but this does not sanitize the conflict of local conditions, it is within the contradictions of conflict that new ideas emerge for models for urbanity. Nomadic Kitchen is one urban practice among many in a collaborative and participatory action in the production of public and private space. The artwork operates as bricolage within and across the transversal field of operation that includes institution and post-institutional art practice. The emergent strategies for this artwork evolved through a series of workshops with residents of Vila Nova. The field of production creates a place of selforganisation between participants. The project embraces 'informality' as another kind of intelligence whose tactics bring a collective visibility to the project and other kinds of urban negotiations. The structure functions as a locus where residents self govern and develop flexible and creative ways of building a context for living. The transversal field of Nomadic Kitchen invests in a desiring production that is flexible, fluid, nomadic and adaptable to different occasions and contexts of informal urban practices. Urban decisions around producing public and social space are made while cooking eating and meeting in the Nomadic Kitchen. This interstitial sculptural structure becomes a place of dialogue while defining the circumstances that determine its situated conditions and public space. The consequences of Nomadic Kitchen explore the potential limits of art production as an urgent action in creating an aesthetic-ethical-spatialpolitics.
Everywhere it 1 is machines -real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, wit... more Everywhere it 1 is machines -real ones, not figurative ones: machines driving other machines, with all the necessary couplings and connections…we are all handymen: each with his little machines. For every organ-machine an energy-machine: all the time, flows and interruptions." 2 The concept machine is one of a number of key concepts appropriated from the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari, an agile enough concept to operate at the level of the individual, small groups of people, society and the state. It works across and between the leakage and escape routes of the dogmatic and ridged structures of politics and spatial organisation offering mobility and flexible strategies for urban action.
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