28/01/11

SIGHT/SITE (SOCIAL SPACE)

-Urban space/hidden power structures

-Anti-war protest-London

-In all urban spaces mechanisms of control/power

-Hausmanisation- to stop crime/ to segregate/control/power

-Power by state

-Adverts/billboards change how feel/act/

-Business control- spend/ consumption

-Dog whistle for chavs-shops

-Crossings/traffic lights

-John Berger- Single point perspective (way of representing space)

e.g. lighthouse-instead of light going in/coming out (appearances)

-Arrogance/god like power/world=stage for us/viewer as central object

-One way situation/panopticism= one all seeing eye

-Understanding is limited + inhibited by our own vision (flawed)

-UN=see themselves in charge of world

-Jemima Stehli-'strip'-giving critic choice of when to take photo

-Power/ illusion of power

-Forces to see person gazing back / awkward

-Critics control art

-Transgression as a result of space; response to limits- Vito Acconci (1969)

-Henri Lefebvre (1905-1991)

-Dirty Protest (1977-8)

-French intellectual, Marxist , sociologist

-Maze prison belfast

-Revolution via everyday life

-Influenced the situationist (challenged the hidden power structures) 1950's, 60's

-Guy Debord

-Theorist of radial movements

-Spatillisation- creative + function of space

-Conventions of space- act in the space how you would think to act in space

-Action/ presence/ discourse= controlled

-Creates opportunity for resistance/ possibility of rebellion

-Signs/illusions of control/ can ignore

-women- think they're meant to look a certain way/ don't have to

-View from above-doing solution