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Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil’s 'informal' situation, and contributes much to the ongoing debate of the possibility for change through social, environmental and ecological solutions. The individual chapters, compiled by Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas, present a wide spectrum of contemporary social agency models with a particular emphasis on detailed case studies and local histories. Featuring critical reflections on the spaces of urban voids, derelict buildings, self-built communities such as favela and roadside occupations, Precarious Spaces will make readers question their assumptions about precarity, and life in precarious realms.

Chapter 1: Why precarious spaces?

Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas

Chapter 2: How emergent cultural imaginaries of autonomy and planetarity can reframe contemporary precarity debates

Diana Brydon

Chapter 3: From the precarious to the hybrid: The case of the Maré Complex in Rio de Janeiro

Lilian Fessler Vaz and Claudia Seldin

Chapter 4: Painting free from gentrification: Participatory arts-based interventions in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Katarzyna Kosmala

Chapter 5: Beyond aesthetics: Poetics of Autoconstrucción in Mexico City

Benjamin Parry

Chapter 6: FOLi Lab: A museographic urban experiment at the Biennial of Photography in Lima, Peru

Gonzalo Olmos and Valeria Biffi

Chapter 7: OrgansparkZ: Communities of art-space, imagination and resistance

Miguel Imas and Alia Weston

Chapter 8: Pockets of resistance: A look at the Mbyá-Guarani camps in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Cristina Amélia Pereira de Carvalho and Fábio Freitas Schilling Marquesan

Chapter 9: Fábricas Recuperadas in Brazil: Contextual experiences

Jacob Carlos Lima, Aline Suelen Pires and Fernando Ramalho Martins

Chapter 10: New technologies and media activism in Brazil: Reassembling spaces in the context of innovation

Leonardo Vasconcelos Cavalier Darbilly

Chapter 11: Organizing culture in favela Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro: The dynamics of precarity

Alketa Peci, Daniel S. Lacerda and Vanessa Brulon

Chapter 12: A much mended thing: Notes from the North

Cristina Molina and Dean (Rocky) Rockwell

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Publié par	Intellect Books
Date de parution	01 juillet 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783205950
Langue	English

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First published in the UK in 2016 by
Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2016 by
Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Print ISBN: 978-1-78320-593-6
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Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Maria Ceci Misoczky
Part I: Introducing the Volume
Chapter 1: Why precarious spaces?
Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas
Chapter 2: How emergent cultural imaginaries of autonomy and planetarity can reframe contemporary precarity debates
Diana Brydon
Part II: Emancipating: The Arts and the Possibility of Change
Chapter 3: From the precarious to the hybrid: The case of the Maré Complex in Rio de Janeiro
Lilian Fessler Vaz and Claudia Seldin
Chapter 4: Painting free from gentrification: Participatory arts-based interventions in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Katarzyna Kosmala
Chapter 5: Beyond aesthetics: Poetics of Autoconstrucción in Mexico City
Benjamin Parry
Chapter 6: FOLi Lab: A museographic urban experiment at the Biennial of Photography in Lima, Peru
Gonzalo Olmos and Valeria Biffi
Chapter 7: OrgansparkZ: Communities of art-space, imagination and resistance
Miguel Imas and Alia Weston
Part III: Resisting: Opening Organizations, Altering Organizing
Chapter 8: Pockets of resistance: A look at the Mbyá-Guarani camps in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Cristina Amélia Pereira de Carvalho and Fábio Freitas Schilling Marquesan
Chapter 9: Fábricas Recuperadas in Brazil: Contextual experiences
Jacob Carlos Lima, Aline Suelen Pires and Fernando Ramalho Martins
Chapter 10: New technologies and media activism in Brazil: Reassembling spaces in the context of innovation
Leonardo Vasconcelos Cavalier Darbilly
Chapter 11: Organizing culture in favela Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro: The dynamics of precarity
Alketa Peci, Daniel S. Lacerda and Vanessa Brulon
Chapter 12: A much mended thing: Notes from the North
Cristina Molina and Dean (Rocky) Rockwell
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
This book has had a lengthy gestation process, and several people have contributed to its fruition in the Global South and the Global North. Most of all, we would like to acknowledge the contribution of now deceased Professor Marcelo Milano Falcão Vieira for his involvement in the early stages of this project and in ideas development, as well as his enthusiasm for a positive change; aimed at transforming the current conditions while working towards more ‘liveable’ lives in peripheral spaces. We are grateful to all authors who feature in this edited collection. Most authors have contributed new texts, written especially for this book, and we particularly appreciate their time and commitment to the project. A few chapters have also been developed from contributors’ ongoing research and activism in the area, with authors sharing their ongoing journeys of discovery in seeking innovative means for change. Equally, we would like to thank all artists and researchers whose images feature in this volume for their generosity as well as for permissions to reproduce their images, which made the visual element of this project possible. Last, but not least, we would like to thank John Mullen for his work on image reproduction and editorial work.
Preface
Precarious Spaces: The Arts, Social and Organizational Change is a timely contribution that fills a gap in both the arts and social sciences literature concerning arts-informed interventions in peripheral spaces and creative practices of the poor and marginal.
The concept of precarious spaces and the use of arts-based inquiry as a research method in this context provides a valuable contribution to several academic fields, including social sciences, urban studies, geography, organisation studies, visual studies, as well as arts and philosophy. The remarkable aspect of this volume is a unique blend of different theoretical and conceptual approaches that brings together research on space, precarity, and art-centred interventional practices. Indeed, the first section of the volume provides an enriching and avant-garde set of ideas on how to conceptualise issues associated with social and organizational change in relation to marginal spaces. The breadth and critical appreciation of interdisciplinary engagement with the conceptualisation of creativity and precariat opens an important window for reflection upon the human condition in precarious realms, as well as how space can be constructed, negotiated and re-constructed at the periphery of society. Following from this refreshing conceptual framing, the chapters in Parts II and III bring cases and experiences from different locations of the Global South, including original insights into the world of favelas, and how we can learn and reflect back on our own communities while appreciating their richness ‘differently’. We get a glimpse of the complexities of settlement strategies – how communities have to improvise with scarcity of resources, embrace temporary conditions and deal with day-to-day challenges necessary to preserve and reproduce life locally. We also learn how community practices transform, as for instance in the case of the Mbyá-Guarani, to assert their dwelling culture in unimagined urban spaces.
Another significant contribution of this volume is an engagement with local histories through interdisciplinary dialogue, articulating theoretical reflections without privileging philosophical framings originating from the Global North. This is extremely relevant, as the inclination in producing knowledge of this nature tends to privilege the voice of the Global North and English-language framings, giving less importance to the knowledge produced in ‘other’ localities. This volume embeds theory as a reflection of the experiences of living communities.
This book, a testimony to the work and dedication of all the contributors bringing insight into the world of marginal dwellers, reflects the intellectual contribution of Professor Marcelo Milano Falcão Vieira, who sadly died in December 2011. He significantly contributed to the formation of ideas in the early stages of this project, especially with his work on Brazilian culture and the impact of neo-liberal managerialism on local community practices. Among his outstanding work, relevant for this volume, was the importance he placed on studying favelas and peripheral neighbourhoods while probing the limits of culture in societal transformation. Henceforth, it is with this mix of sadness – as Marcelo Milano Falcão Vieira is not here to see this volume published – and joy – that I thank the authors and editors for bringing this valuable project to completion. Thus, I could not recommend this book more to anyone who wants to challenge their own understandings and perceptions of precarious spaces or simply explore how the intersection of precarity, community and intervention-centred art practices are negotiated in localities of the Global South.
Maria Ceci Misoczky
Part I
Introducing the Volume
Chapter 1
Why precarious spaces?
Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas
Precarious?
This volume addresses current concerns in art discourse around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily living, urban informality and the proliferation of alternative forms of organizing. Authors from South America as well as Europe, the United States and Canada engage with spatial strategies behind the utilization of precariousness, and examine ways of challenging forms of precarity, and indeed, the instigation of precarity.
The volume draws upon interdisciplinary research including cultural and visual studies, art theory, organization studies, architecture, urban planning, geography and contemporary philosophy, and supplements local histories and experiences in the Global South, as well as their theoretical frameworks, with theories of art and socio-political practice as they have been debated and developed in European and North American contexts. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America and from there expands to address similar issues in the Global North. The individual chapters examine examples of projects based on performances of space that can be seen as exceeding the norm, as well as case studies concerning art-informed inquiry aimed at social and transformative consequences, set against the backdrop of neo-liberal economies that have contributed to the emergence of precarity in both life and work. Such an inquiry implies not only a particular philosophical and theoretical position, but equally demonstrates how, in practice, groups, individuals, and communities can challenge constructed, established orders to create spaces of emancipation. Thus, the book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective for engaging with some of the themes of precarious spaces by mobilizing the use of arts-based inquiry both as a research method and as an intervention that aims at social and organizational change; drawing on resources that originate from South America, including examples from Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Chile, supplemented with insights and resources emerging from the North, including the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
The key phrases surrounding precarity,