Σοβαρά Παιχνίδια

Serious Games

12 – 31/10/2021

Serious Games: An experimental curriculum

A: Critical Monumental Theory/Monuments beyond art history: iconology and strategies of subversion.

  1. WJT Mitchell What Do Monuments Want? , Michael Taussig Monuments Must Do Better from Monuments, Monumentality, Monumentalization at DIA, https://youtu.be/caGhHQT9WYY
  2. Robert Musil , Monuments
  3. Documenta 13: Public monument Glossary selections
  4. Andreas Huyssen, Present Pasts: Media, Politics,Amnesia
  5. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Whose culture is it, anyway? , Cosmopolitanism, pages 128-135

 

Further reading:

  • Huyssen, Andreas, Monument and memory in a postmodern age. The Yale Journal of Criticism, 1993.
  • Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin, Monuments and memory, made and unmade , University of Chicago Press, 2004
  • Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies

Duke University Press, 1998

 

B: Decolonising, the question of the Icon, emergent social spaces

  1. Συνέντευξη του Γιάννη Χαμηλάκη στον Κώστα Χριστόπουλο, Ανασκάπτοντας μνήμες: Για μια πολυαισθητηριακή και πολυχρονική αρχαιολογία, anthology of the 4th Athens Biennial AGORA
  2. Achille Mbembe, Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive
  3. Kim Dovey, Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form
  4. John Peffer, Censorship and Iconoclasm: Unsettling Monuments

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20167676

Further reading:

  • Dario Gamboni, Image to Destroy, Indestructible Image (2002)
  • Guy Debord, Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography 1955

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/urbgeog.htm

C: Political*Art

  1. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, pages 199-212
  2. Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Spaces of Appearance,

https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/series/the-spaces-of-appearance/

  1. Truth is concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies

in Real Politics, Edited by steirischer herbst and Florian Malzacher, Coedited by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Kira Kirsch, Andreas R. Peternell, and Johanna Rainer

 

  • Hans Haacke, Monumenting
  • Sérgio Miguel Franco, Defacing
  • Krzysztof Wodiczko, Interrogative Design

D: Projects+ Situated discourse

  1. Nero editions: Decolonise!

https://www.neroeditions.com/docs/decolonize/

  1. From Spaces of Resistance to the Architecture of Repair: Gregory Sholette, Nandini Bagchee, Libertad Guerra, Todd Ayoung

https://www.bgc.bard.edu/events/1239/06-may-2021-from-spaces

  1. Simon Sheikh, Planes of immanence, or the form of ideas: Notes on the(anti-)Monuments of Thomas Hirschhorn

 

An anthology of further references: Artist’s Projects, Ephemeral Memorials, and Anti-Memorials

http://invisiblemonument.com/10

  • Joseph DeLappe, The 1,000 Drones — A Participatory Memorial , 2014
  • Wafaa Bilal, and Counting…, 2010
  • Bryan C Lee’s Paper Monuments: http://bit.ly/2whSjhi
  • Amina Menia, Enclosed , 2012