The work above is by Riccardo Benassi, Autostrada Verticale, studio per Scala, scala 1:2, 2009, wood and paint.

I thought this was a digitized image when I first viewed it, however, came to realize I was wrong. The article in addition to Benassi’s Autostrada Verticale, talks about the ways in which artist today work within the social structures and technology’s tools for navigation through time and space and thus our response. Below is one paragraph I have taken from the reading and inserted into this post. I would like for people to respond to this paragraph on how they reflect and feel about it.

 

“Situating nomadism in-time clarifies the concept through specific analysis. It positions events and points of view, re-appropriating ideas and overcoming myths. Today some artists feel the urgency in practices to incite change. Their strategies involve the sharing appropriating from everywhere and everything: the present, the past and the future in the form of images, google maps, wikipedia tools, symposia, workshops, dance floors, critical discourse, informal conversations, sculptures, installations, video, sound, performances and so on in a heterotopia that implies fluctuation in a universe of signs and meanings, inhabiting spaces in between. Never filling a seat, these modes of working occupy different positions in different moments, depending on the contingencies that affect the direction of their efforts. In conclusion, what seems to emerge from this panorama is a progressive change that could be defined in terms of a re-appropriation of time. The various practices of temporally based artists are responding to this new re-appropriation, they are based on the will of creating a condition for the discursive.” 

-Federica Bueti

 

To read more of Bueti’s paper on “NO PLACE TO SIT (a walk around the new context)” click on the link below:

http://www.artandeducation.net/paper/no-place-to-sit-a-walk-around-the-new-context/

“NO PLACE TO SIT (a Walk around the New Context) | Art & Education.” Art & Education. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.