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Renovation
Winter 2014
This issue explore the phenomenon of renovation, which is broached in various artistic practices and experienced on the fringe of artistic activities by both artists and art venues. Numerous works are primarily linked with the field of renovation through their use of particular materials and tools, but also by having recourse to devices that emphasize site, construction, building site development, or the project implementation process. In this perspective, we were interested in texts analyzing corpora of works which — on a real or metaphorical level — question (re)construction processes or directly involve rebuilding.
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Kamikaze Renovation: Parasitical Forms Of Renovation
Pre-demolition Art as a Staging of Power-free Relations
Skilled Workers Guild: The Empirical Renovations of the Chapuisat Brothers
Favela Café at Art Basel: Conflicting Signs In Semi-Public Space
Chantiers Unstable Construction Sites
A Cacilheiro in Venice : The renovation and Conversion Of A Ferryboat By Joana Vasconcelos
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Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.