The gaps of architectural life
The affective politics of Gordon Matta‐Clark's Conical Intersect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Dekeyser (0000-0002-3809-313X, Geography and Environment University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 179-191 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.12166 |
| OpenAlex | W2560635714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 70 |
This paper contributes to a burgeoning concern with the ‘critical geographies of architecture’. The central argument is that recent architecture–geography encounters – inspired by non‐representational approaches to material mutability and affective inhabitation – are failing to connect with socio‐political framings of the architectural. In this light, the paper aligns Gordon Matta‐Clark's architectural artwork Conical Intersect (1975) with the Deleuzo‐Guattarian axiom of micropolitics and macropolitics to re‐insert the architectural subject as a microtexture of political forms imbued with (1) asymmetrical assemblages of material volatility, (2) restricted capacities of ‘dwelling or being with’ architecture and (3) bounded notions of living affectively. I suggest Conical Intersect foregrounds architectural space as a meeting of dreamworlds and institutional effects. In its piercing of that space of interaction, the artwork produces an architectural form freed from the conventions of legal and physical constraints to suggest the potency of alternative modes of living with and living in architecture that should be of primary interest to critical geographies of architecture and beyond
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · History of architecture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Architecture · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Semblance and Event
Deleuze and the Political
Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning
The Built Environment and Social Theory
Social formation and symbolic landscape
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Reassembling the Social
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Architecture and crisis
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Nano-art, dynamic matter and the sight/sound of touch
Veritable inventions
Of human birds and living rocks
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Toward a poetics of air
Moving cities
Geography and art. An expanding field
Airports, mobility and the calculative architecture of affective control
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Political affects in public space
More on ‘big things
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A thousand plateaus
Sonic geographies
Human geography without scale
Pour votre tranquillité
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The makeshift city
Dialogues and Doings
Geographies of Architecture
Doing Building Work
Afterwords
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Just Duck
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Claiming events of school (re)design
The living building
Practising architectures
Cultural Geographies in Practice
A geography of big things
Materialist returns
Last Breath
Habit, art, and the plasticity of the subject
Night walking
Sites of time
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Observed Decay
Out of Order
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |