Bernard Teyssèdre – Nouvelle revue d’esthétique 2023/2 (n° 32)

Bernard Teyssèdre – Nouvelle revue d’esthétique 2023/2 (n° 32). Dossier dirigé par Dominique Chateau et Jean Da Silva (in French).

I wrote a short article for this issue called “Tranche- montagne” (Mountain-Slicer)

Présentation du dossier : “Bernard Teyssèdre est décédé le 29 décembre 2021 à l’âge de 91 ans. Son œuvre, construite depuis le moment où il explora l’Italie en vespa pour alimenter L’Esthétique des arts plastiques du Haut Moyen Âge italien, sa maîtrise sous la direction d’Étienne Souriau, est d’une ampleur et d’une variété telles qu’on a peine à s’en faire une idée un tant soit peu synthétique. Dès le commencement, dans les années 1949-1952, à L’École Normale supérieure, il ouvrit rapidement une pluralité de portes par lesquelles il ne cessera de passer : celle de l’histoire de l’art, celle de l’esthétique et celle aussi de la philosophie dont il préparait alors l’agrégation. Teyssèdre navigua entre ces pôles et, pour ainsi dire, les jouant l’un avec ou contre l’autre, rêvant d’une esthétique attentive aux œuvres, d’une histoire de l’art rompue à la pensée synthétique autant qu’à l’analyse des particularités (notamment de l’art contemporain) et d’une philosophie que l’art ne cesserait d’interroger profondément, au lieu d’en être un simple sujet de passage. 

Walking is Still Honest: about being and moving together

I’m speaking at the 3-day symposium “Walking is still honest*: about being and moving together” at Sodas 2123 in Vilnius. This event curated by Vitalij Červiakov with Lina Michelkevičė, Vytautas Michelkevičius, and Danutė Gambickaitė “will host diverse practices on walking and being together. Performative artists and researchers talks will be accompanied by embodied walks and workshops.” More information here: https://sodas2123.lt/walking/

See Miglė Markulytė’s recap of the symposium in echo gone wrong https://echogonewrong.com/wandering-through-the-memories-of-the-symposium-walking-is-still-honest-about-being-and-moving-together/ (English).

ChatGPT Reviews Walking and Mapping

Title: Navigating Boundaries: A Captivating Journey into Artistic Cartography

Review by ChatGPT

Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers, authored by Karen O’Rourke, is a thought-provoking exploration of the intersection between art and cartography. Released in 2013, this book opens up a world where the boundaries between maps, art, and the act of walking dissolve, giving birth to a captivating and innovative realm of creative expression.

O’Rourke’s meticulous research and deep understanding of the subject shine through each page, guiding readers on a journey that spans various artistic mediums, from visual arts to performance and installation. The book seamlessly weaves together historical references, contemporary examples, and insightful interviews with renowned artists who have ventured into the realm of mapping.

One of the book’s strengths lies in its ability to present complex concepts in an accessible manner. O’Rourke adeptly unravels the intricate relationship between mapping and walking, emphasizing the profound impact it has had on the art world. She explores how artists have utilized maps as a means to navigate physical, emotional, and psychological landscapes, delving into the power of maps as tools of representation, storytelling, and exploration.

Walking and Mapping @ Walking Art and Relational Geographies

International Encounters Girona-Olot-Vic,  Catalonia Spain July 5-9  2022

A project by Contemporary Art Center Nau Côclea . Camallera Catalonia Spain

The starting point of the human movement, the practice of walking offers us today an enriching and complex interaction between territories, cultures, creativity, communities, thought and public space. Walking becomes an urgent and necessary perspective through which to look, analyse and understand the contemporary world.

Walking as a philosophy and a reflection, walking as an awareness of the emergence and needs of sustainability, walking as the beginning of the journey and as the endless experience of knowledge and discovery. Walking as a health practice. Walking as a connector between the self and the other, as a tool for relations between people and territories in their processes of transformation. Walking as a privileged instrument of perception of the landscape and as an artistic practice.

These lines and paths point to a field of action and analysis that crosses many practical and conceptual territories – in which culture, art, anthropology, geography, education, health. ecology, etc. intertwine – requiring an urgent and creative process of exploration.

Wednesday 6 July University of Girona Facultat de Lletres Plaça Josep Ferrater i Mora 1

10: 00/11:00 Keynote presentation Walking and Mapping Karen O’Rourke. Saint Etienne University

Arts on the move. A duo conversation with Karen O’Rourke and Francesco Careri on 26 April 2022.

The free online walk listen cafe with Karen O’Rourke and Francesco Careri looks into how walking, traveling and art intersect and interbreed. Tuesday April 26th, at 8h30 PM CET

https://walklistencreate.org/walkingevent/arts-on-the-move/

Psychogeography – The MIT Press Reader

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/psychogeography-a-purposeful-drift-through-the-city/

If geographers “carve,” “draw,” or “write” the earth, psychogeographers add a zest of soul to the mix, linking earth, mind and foot.

Pedestric Radicals

“Remapping Community” aux jeudis cartographiques

Jeudi 18 mars : atelier de cartographie expérimentale et critique
Une séance coordonnée par Anna Guilló et Jean Cristofol.

La séance de notre atelier cartographique du 18 mars 2021 s’intéresse à la production de la ville, avec deux présentations très différentes.

14h00 Karen O’Rourke, Remapping Community

En 1992, lorsque l’artiste Rick Lowe a vu le potentiel des vingt-deux maisons délabrées du Third Ward à Houston, ses amis constructeurs lui ont dit qu’elles ne valaient pas la peine d’être rénovées. Mieux vaut les démolir et les reconstruire. Mais il avait en tête les maisons « shotgun » des communautés afro-américaines qui structurent les peintures de John Biggers. Mobilisant les institutions et les milieux artistiques locales, les églises de quartier et les familles, Lowe et un groupe d’artistes afro-américains, avec l’aide de milliers de bénévoles, les ont transformés en espaces d’art et de logement pour les jeunes mères. Project Row Houses a ouvert ses portes en 1994. Le livre Remapping Community vise à approfondir l’étude de cette œuvre d’art générative, de la communauté diversifiée qui l’a façonnée et des défis auxquels elle est confrontée aujourd’hui à mesure que le quartier se transforme.

16h00, Nicolas Mémain, Les pérégrinations d’un cartographe amateur

Un urbaniste peintre refoulé partage l’expérience de trois décennies d’un rapport passionnel à la cartographie. L’émotion de la vulgarisation des logiciels de SIG, ou comment une pratique amatrice est devenue une petite collection de savoir-faire astucieux, du fait-main dans l’atelier d’un modeste artisan comme prestation de services raffinée.

Remapping the Neighborhood

MF Problem (Autumn Knight and Robert Pruitt), Mobile Block Party flyer (2011).

Abstract: In Houston’s Third Ward residents join with artists and architects to revitalize a historic African-American neighborhood. What do their maps tell us?

Keywords: art as remapping, database mapping, urban redevelopment, architecture.

Biography: Karen O’Rourke is an artist and writer, emeritus professor at the University of Saint-Etienne. She is the author of Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers (MIT Press, 2013) and a co-founder of La Fin des cartes?

O’Rourke, Karen, “Remapping the neighborhood” published on July, 10th, 2020, antiAtlas #4 | 2020, online, URL : www.antiatlas.net/04-remapping-the-neighborhood/

Drifting to Third Ward

Instructions

If you want to walk, try walking on your “Main Street”. Walk toward an art gallery. Go into every room and look around. If you don’t find an art gallery, make one. Continue to move in and out of air-conditioned places. For those of you in the southern hemisphere, central heating will work too. If there’s a freeway anywhere around, make sure you cross it. If there is no freeway, look for railroad tracks.

A 20-minute sound walk

Traduction française du texte

Part of Drifting Bodies / Fluent Spaces – Lab2PT & Made of Walking (VII) – Guimaraes (Portugal)