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Amsterdam at war in 2030? This terrifying projection into a
possible future aims to expand our thinking about tolerance, fear,
security, censorship and urban politics. Naming no specific enemy,
theorists and artists ask questions and sketch scenarios: what are
the implications of warfare in a Western city?
In today's hypervisualized culture, has every message or social
agenda been usurped by styling, commerc, and fashion? What position
does art occupy in conveying the meanings of everyday design? What
position "should" it occupy? And how do we make meaning--that which
is invisible--visible? In "Open 8," guest editors Willem van
Weelden and Jan van Grunsven introduce this debate. Further
examination comes courtesy critic Brian Holmes, who explores
(in)visibility as a tactic in art, and Dieter Lesage, who
critically examines the proposals by design firm OMA for a new
iconography of Europe. Among these and other thought-provoking
essays is an account of a round-table discussion centered around
legitimating "Art and the Public Space," courses in designers'
academic training, photographic essays and book reviews.
"Open" 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined
in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public
and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors
consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of
information.
Artist and photographer Joke Robaard, originally trained in
fashion, investigates human configurations (e.g., networks of
friends or neighbors). After "directing" individuals into certain
positions and patterns in relation to one another, she photographs
them, using clothing to illustrate where connections lie and how
they constantly shift.
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