Slow spatial reader : chronicles of radical affection / Carolyn F. Strauss (ed.) ; with contributions by: Lara Almarcegui, Marijke Annema, Martina Buzzi, Nicolas Buzzi [and 33 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strauss, Carolyn F., editor.

Almarcegui, Lara, 1972- contributor.

Annema, Marijke, 1986- contributor.

Buzzi, Martina, 1985- contributor.

Buzzi, Nicolas, 1987- contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slow life movement.

Space.

Space (Art).

Aesthetics.

Holism.

Art and philosophy.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

350 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Chronicles of radical affection

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, 2021.

Summary:

'Slow Spatial Research: Chronicles of Radical Affection' is a collection of essays about 'Slow' approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world. The book's contributors are from twenty-two countries on five continents. Each one brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches - from 'spatial' fields like architecture, sculpture, and installation, but also performative, somatic and/or dramaturgical practices - exploring how we think about and engage with space at a range of scales, tempos, and durations. The essays chronicle projects and processes that amplify tangible and intangible qualities of spatial experience: reaching into the cracks of the body, probing the fuzzy borders of atmospheres, and extending out across both geographical and epistemological coordinates. The term 'radical affection' in the book's title was coined to unite those diverse approaches in a call for tender acts of individual and collective imagination through which new forms of caring, connection, and resilience might emerge. Like its predecessor, Slow Reader (Valiz 2016), this new publication is intended to spur meaningful dialogue between disciplines and cultures, inspiring not only a different velocity of engaging the world but also critical shifts in consciousness that only Slow thinking and practice can provoke.

Contents:

Intimacy, Near and Far

The Time of the Stone p. 26 / Beate Hølmebakk

In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent Times p. 34 / Maria Popova

Clay Extraction Operation, Quarry Richaume Sud, Puyloubier: A 33-meter Approach to the Underneath p. 38 / Lara Almarcegui

Rowboat Phenomenology p. 50 / Angela Sakrison

Hello, and Welcome to Pain p. 60 / Martina Buzzi and Nicolas Buzzi and Li Tavor

Felt Lines of Connection: In a Time of Isolation and Physical Distancing p. 72 / Sara Wookey

Knowing and Not-Knowing

Space as Atmosphere: Floating in a Molecular Bath p. 86 / Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx

Towards Another Awareness of Space p. 98 / Megumi Matsubara

Time by Windows Is Time Well Spent Practicing Full Emptiness in Architecture p. 102 / Renske Maria van Dam

Access and Atypical Creation p. 112 / Ash McAskill

Non-Practicing Practice: Flâneusing the Streets of a Profession p. 122 / Chiara Dorbolò

Standing with Two Feet in Complex Matter p. 132 / Cocky Eek

In Cracks and at the Margins

Selvedges/Self-Edges p. 144 / Jane Rendell and Enrique Cavelier and Sophie Chamberlain and Sean Cham and Yuxiao Chen and Rachael Docherty and Abdulrahman El-Taliawi and Sara Kärpänen and Keren Kuenberg and Francesca Marino and Olga Markou and Lia Mazzari and Artemis Papachristou and Rebecca Sainsot-Reynolds and David Roberts and Diana Salazar and Honor Vincent and Fanqi Zhou and Vid Znidarsic

How to Build without a Land: 10 Years On p. 158 / Saba Innab

The Long Practice of Cumulative Attentiveness p. 170 / Ian Hanesworth

Find the Less Good Idea p. 174 / Bronwyn Lace

Designing in the In-Between p. 182 / Sol Camacho

Resilience in the Margins p. 192 / Salima Naji

A Spatial Imaginary of Care

The Skin of the Earth, Swirling p. 202 / Ligia Nobre

Postures p. 212 / Maria Hassabi

A Leap of Imagination p. 218 / Françoise Vergès

Holding Space, Together p. 230 / Alessandra Pomarico and Ku Kahakalau and Kate Morales

Teko Pora: On Art and Life p. 244 / Cristine Takuá

Big Toe, Brain, Rock p. 250 / Pia Lindman

Giving-With, Looking Toward (After &Eacutedouard Glissant)

Thickets: Raqs Media Collective p. 262

Peregrination p. 268 / Ruth Little

Topographic Living: Experimenting with Life and Landscape p. 286 / Anna Maria Fink and David Habets

Rotten Energy: Spaces with Consciousness p. 298 / Daniel Lie

Threading Stones p. 310 / Marijke Annema

The Anthropocene Museum: Tracing our Decolonial Architectural Movements of Resistance in Africa p. 316 / Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi, Cave_bureau.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789492095978

9492095971

OCLC:

1252061444