From On the River
One of the most important books in the development of the understanding of art and public life is Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics by Rosalyn Deutsche. Quite a while ago now she made real connections between space - art - politics and brought this into real terms of experience and power in civic life.
Once we established the river and bridge as the site for the studio, I began to consider these issues as they pertain to some basic spatial facts. The river spatially separates the city. Crossing it requires power. These physical forms establish a charged context into which human experience and value get embedded. These forms and this embedding is of interest to us as artists. This is what we deal with.
An excerpt of the book on Google Book
In Image Studio we read some of David Summer’s book “Real Spaces” in which he makes the case that all visual arts are spatial in nature.
In the studio we’ll work to deal with space in various ways. This begins by giving it some other-than-normal attention.
