City and Culture: and It's Presence in The Visual Arts
City and Culture: and It's Presence in The Visual Arts
City and Culture: and It's Presence in The Visual Arts
Florence Gouvrit-Montano
Department of Arts
The Ohio State University
http://gouvrit.org
2010
Situationist map
• “In societies dominated by modern conditions of
production, life is presented as an immense accumulation
of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has
receded into a representation [...] The spectacle is not a
collection of images; it is a social relation between people
that is mediated by images”. Guy Debord, The Society of
the Spectacle , 1967
-- Walter Benjamin
"...I spend a lot of time walking around the city...
The initial concept for a project often emerges during a walk.
As an artist, my position is akin to that of a passer-by
constantly trying to situate myself in a moving environment.