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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_15595
dc.contributor.author	Borselli Daniel
dc.title	Darkness Visible: The Art of Occupying Public Space as a Space of Appearance
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	During the twentieth century, art has increasingly dialogued with public space to escape the normative role of institutional exhibiting contexts. However, the first artistic efforts in public spaces mostly failed to reconsider what ‘public’ and ‘space’ could represent, thus implicitly upholding the status quo ruling those spaces. By discussing two case studies – namely, Martha Rosler’s House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (1967-72), and Krzysztof Wodiczko’s The Homeless Projection (1986) – this paper argues for the presence of artistic operations that instead focused on a critical rethinking of ‘public space’ from a site of transit or an extension of the art system to a space of political appearance.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2022-12-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-10-28
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-675-6/darkness-visible-the-art-of-occupying-public-space/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-675-6/001
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-675-6
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Krzysztof Wodiczko
dc.subject	Martha Rosler
dc.subject	Photography
dc.subject	Public space
dc.subject	Visibility

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Darkness Visible: The Art of Occupying Public Space as a Space of Appearance

Daniel Borselli Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italia

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During the twentieth century, art has increasingly dialogued with public space to escape the normative role of institutional exhibiting contexts. However, the first artistic efforts in public spaces mostly failed to reconsider what ‘public’ and ‘space’ could represent, thus implicitly upholding the status quo ruling those spaces. By discussing two case studies – namely, Martha Rosler’s House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home (1967-72), and Krzysztof Wodiczko’s The Homeless Projection (1986) – this paper argues for the presence of artistic operations that instead focused on a critical rethinking of ‘public space’ from a site of transit or an extension of the art system to a space of political appearance.

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Dec. 21, 2022

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Oct. 28, 2022

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Keywords: Krzysztof Wodiczko • Martha Rosler • Public space • Visibility • Photography

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