Beneath and before
Continuums of Publicness in Public Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4865367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adrienne L Burk (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 949-964 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360601055862 |
| OpenAlex | W1975225576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 26 |
Public monuments traditionally appear in high contrast to their landscapes, an effect that sets aesthetic, ideological and social distances. However, Manmale, counter-monuments, and counter-hegemonic monuments (eg the AIDS quilt, Rachael Whiteread's House, Melbourne's Another View Walking Trail, Tiananmen's Goddess of Democracy, or Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial), challenge the norms of monuments in visuality, fixedness, and permanence, and suggest intricacies which mediate the interactivity of art, site and passers-by. In this paper, I consider three counter-hegemonic monuments in Vancouver, British Columbia – all installed in 1997/98 and all dealing with the issue of violence – sited within one neighbourhood. Via archival research, interviews, and extensive participant observations investigating how the monuments actually function in social memory rituals, I discovered that the characteristics of publicness in the landscapes that lay ‘beneath and before’ the monuments deeply affected their origins, designs, and current uses. Traditionnellement, les monuments publics qui se détachent de leur paysage produisent un effet qui accentue les distances esthétiques, idéologiques et sociales. Cependant, construits par l'Homme, les contre-monuments et les monuments contre-hégémoniques (par exemple, la courtepointe du SIDA, House de Rachael Whiteread, Another View Walking Trail à Melbourne, la Déesse de la Démocratie érigée sur la place Tiananmen, ou encore le Vietnam Memorial de Maya Lin) vont à l'encontre des normes relatives aux monuments en matière de visualité, d'immuabilité et de permanence, et présentent des complexités qui servent d'intermédiaires entre l'art, le site et les passants. Dans cet article, j'étudie trois monuments contre-hégémoniques de Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique tous installés en 1997–98 dans le même voisinage et consacrés au thème de la violence. J'ai découvert au moyen de recherches archivistiques et à l'aide d'entrevues et d'observations participatives de grande envergure que les particularités propres au caractère public des paysages situés «oen dessous et devanto» par rapport aux monuments ont beaucoup marqué leurs origines, conceptions et utilisations actuelles. Tradicionalmente existen marcados contrastes entre los monumentos públicos y los paisajes en que se sitúan; un efecto que establece distancias estéticas, ideológicas y sociales. Sin embargo, contra-monumentos y monumentos contra-hegemónicos (por ejemplo el acolchado SIDA, la casa de Rachael Whiteread, el ‘Sendero Otra Vista’ de Melbourne, la Diosa de la Democracia de Tiananmen, el Monumento en Memoria de Vietnam de Maya Lin) cuestionan las normas de visualidad y de permanencia de los monumentos y sugieren complejidades que median la interactividad de arte, sitio y transeúntes. En este papel, considero tres monumentos contra-hegemónicos en Vancouver, British Columbia, los tres instalados en 1997–1998 y los tres tratando el tema de la violencia, situados en el mismo barrio. Mediante una investigación de archivos, entrevistas y observaciones de participantes para investigar cómo los monumentos funcionan en rituales de recuerdo social, descubro que las características de lo público en los paisajes que existían debajo de los monumentos y antes de que existieran, tenían un afecto profundo sobre el origen, diseño y uso actual de los monumentos. Keywords: monumentssocial memorytactilityvisualityVancouverKeywords: monumentsmémoire socialetactilitévisualitéVancouverKeywords: Palabras clave: monumentosrecuerdo socialtactilidadvisualidadVancouver Acknowledgements I wish to gratefully acknowledge Drs. Nina Morris, Sarah Cant, David Sibley and three anonymous reviewers for their sustained, generous and thoughtful engagement with this essay at many stages. Notes 1 The women killed were Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Anne Turcotte, and Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. It has become a practice of respect to mention them by name, but not to mention the name of their murderer. 2 Dr. Evelyn Peters offers useful linguistic distinctions as to these terms: she uses “First Nations” to refer to ‘people who identify themselves as such, including people who are or are not registered pursuant to [Canada's] Indian Act. By “Aboriginal peoples” I mean the descendants of the indigenous peoples in Canada, including First Nations peoples, Métis, and Inuit.’ Peters, E. (1998) Subversive spaces: First Nations women and the city Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (16) 665–685
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| Citations per year | 0,72 |
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
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