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CRITICAL PLAYGROUND AS PLAY-CE UTOPIA. (MANIFESTO FOR A DIFFERENCE IN ITSELF.) (2023)

Anartist
Gian Luigi Biagini

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City of Panic is an urban intervention, which has been realized by The Anartist (Gian Luigi Biagini and John Dunn). It happened in 2019 in the central train-station square of Helsinki. The installation-performance is a "caged mini-golf", which catches and elicits many disruptive resonances. The intervention challenges, contests and makes visible the "iron cage of rationality" that organizes the capitalist urban space through an ordoliberal trans-institutional consensus that does not leave space for the expression of Difference. The intervention puts in "play-ce" a critical and mystic playground of Difference in Itself that breaks the cage of assimilation to a functional hierarchical identity. The article describes this complex experience of rupture and cata-comic rapture by a phenomenology of the process in becoming. A phenomenology and an ethnography of difference, with theory references "in flight", that cannot be completely grasped by a homogenous and unified signifier, narrative, representation. Even the style of the graphic tries to evoke this "virtual heterogeneity of intertwined planes and becomings" that are sutured and re-composed by creative writing.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsCage, intervention, urban space, time, Disruption/Anomaly, event
date28/08/2019
published09/11/2023
last modified09/11/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationAalto University School of Art,Design, Architecture
copyrightBiagini Gian Luigi
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1165712/1165713
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.1165712
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue20. Artivism


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