A change in military thinking is taking place these very days, in which the military understands that future wars will take place in cities. If in the past symmetrical warfare was conducted by state militaries in the open fields, today militaries are fighting enclaves of resistance that withdraw ever deeper into the density of the urban fabric. ‘Walking through walls’ is the military tactic of tearing down holes in the façades of people’s homes (and the walls between rooms) in order to expand the battle field from the public to the private space.
Transcript of lecture by Eyal Weizman here, essay here.
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Andy Warhol, ‘Hammer and Sickle’ (1976)
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Also tagged american, Andy Warhol, black, commerce, communism, logo, marxist, production, red, screenprint, the factory, visual language
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Mladen Stilinovic at Villa Romana (2010)
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Also tagged artists, capitalism, death, duchamp, east, economics, laziness, lazy, malevich, manifesto, marxist theory, mladen stilinovic, non-work, praise, socialism, stupidity, text, villa romana, west, work
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In 1980, Yoko Ono and John Lennon released the album Double Fantasy. The second track “Kiss Kiss Kiss” is written by Yoko, who said, “There is the sound of a woman coming to a climax on it, and she is crying out to be held, to be touched. It will be controversial, because people still feel it’s less natural to hear the sounds of a woman’s lovemaking than, say, the sound of a Concorde, killing the atmosphere and polluting nature.”
Listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHG7Q6UNZk4
Josephine Meckseper, ‘African Spir’ (2011)
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Also tagged african spir, artefacts, birds, capitalism, collection, connections, consumer, context, critique, display, installation, josephine meckseper, market, materialism, mausoleum, mirror, objects, power, products, shine, shop window, surface, trouvé, unknown, value, vitrine
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‘Romanian Kiosk Company’ (2010) by Mircea Nicolae
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Also tagged amateur, architecture, collection, eastern bloc, family, fiction, found, history, ice cream, mircea nicolae, romance, romanian kiosk company, text, unknown, video
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Elena Bajo, ‘To the North, The Crystal of Non-Knowledge, a Landscape to be invented’ (2010)
Solyst Skulpturen Park, Copenhagen
Trashed damaged staircase and stained color glass window found in a wasteland, re-assembled and welded in collaboration with unemployed workers, subsidized by the Danish Government.
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Also tagged action, denmark, dysfunctional, Elena Bajo, forest, fuckem, fun, government, labour, landscape, mechanical sculpture, meditate, metal, nature, public space, re-use, scrap, sculpture park, stained glass, staircase, trash, unemployed, view, water, window
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Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, in 2012.