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On Reenactment: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools. E-book. Formato PDF Cristina Baldacci - Accademia University Press, 2022 -
This book brings together dance and visual arts scholars to investigate the key methodological and theoretical issues concerning reenactment. Along with becoming an effective and widespread contemporary artistic strategy, reenactment is taking shape as a new anti-positivist approach to the history of dance and art, undermining the notion of linear time and suggesting new temporal encounters between past, present, and future. As such, reenactment has contributed to a move towards different forms of historical thinking and understanding that embrace cultural studies – especially intertwining gender, postcolonial, and environmental issues – in the redefinition of knowledge, historical discourses, and memory. This approach also involves questioning canons and genealogies by destabilising authorship and challenging both institutional and direct forms of transmission. The structure of the book playfully recalls that of a theatrical performance, with both an overture and prelude, to provide space for a series of theoretical and practice-based insights – the solos – and conversations – the duets – by artists, critics, curators, and theorists who have dealt with reenactment. The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate how reenactment as a strategy of appropriation, circulation, translation, and transmission can contribute to understanding history both in its perpetual becoming and as a process of reinvention, renarration, and resignification from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Crescere nell'Assurdo: Uno sguardo dallo Stretto. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv. - Accademia University Press, 2018 -
In che modo può l’arte affiancarsi alla crescita e stimolare l’immaginario mantenendo una funzione critica? Crescere nell’Assurdo. Uno sguardo dello Stretto indaga queste domande, formulate da Altre Velocità all’interno del progetto “Crescere Spettatori”, e le relaziona allo Stretto di Messina, dove processi contraddittori di simbolizzazione e di erosione dell’identità storica convivono con strascichi di un patrimonio popolare ancora vitale e con forme di resistenza culturale. Coniugando un ricco apparato iconografico con le parole di studiosi, critici e prestigiosi artisti del panorama messinese, il volume ripercorre le tracce di un tempo perduto di cui pensiero e arte rinnovano la memoria e la capacità di azione, andando incontro al territorio. Propone, così, un cammino che ci interroga sulle forme, oltre che sui contenuti, di un’educazione al pensiero critico dentro e fuori dalle istituzioni scolastiche e universitarie.
Built Ideas: Form, Space and Meaning. E-book. Formato PDF Amra Salihbegovic - Accademia University Press, 2024 -
How do architects generate form? What are the implications of the interdependence of form and space? Architectural practice, due to its complexity and plurality, urges an aesthetic inquiry into the totality of architectural work. This book proposes a theoretical and conceptual framework for an aesthetic evaluation, understanding, and analysis of architectural work. It intersects three essential themes: architectural expression as the prevalence of the meaning of form, the uniqueness of spatial qualities as the content of the architectural work, and aesthetic experience as the essence of architectural creation. It aims to decipher the aesthetic ideal from a qualitative point of view and to reveal the reasoning behind the design approach, representing in that sense a link between the evaluation of the built design, and the clarification of the conceptual design. It intends to explain the built work from the creative process and to transform the conventional understanding of architecture from technical and technological perspectives, and economic, cultural, or social tendencies, through the aesthetic dissection of the correlation of form and space. The book does not offer definite answers but aims to unfold and integrate the discourse on form and space interdependence, as the fundamentals of the discipline, into contemporary architecture."The Work of architecture […], in its singularity, excavated within, it takes on a universal breath." Luciano Semerani