Tag Archives : tactics

CREATIVE TIME: Andrew Weiner

This entry was posted in Blog CREATIVE TIME - October 2012 and tagged Creative Time tactics genealogy critique on October 2, 2012 by arc_berkeley.

Can the concept of tactics itself still serve a tactical purpose? One answer to this question would start by considering the extent to which “tactics” has become overdetermined in our present conjuncture. A genealogy of the term in its current sense would trace back through Michel de Certeau’s well-known appropriations of military theory to its usage in France circa 1968 around the Situationist International (as in Raoul Vaneigem’s Revolution of Everyday Life).

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CREATIVE TIME: Christian Frock

This entry was posted in Blog CREATIVE TIME - October 2012 and tagged Creative Time tactics publicizing private space on October 1, 2012 by arc_berkeley.

In response to rampant privatization of public space, cultural producers in the Bay Area increasingly publicize private spaces (apartments, marginalized real estate, etc) and, in doing so, radicalize notions of public space, even when these spaces aren’t conventionally “public.”

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CREATIVE TIME: Leila Grothe

This entry was posted in Blog CREATIVE TIME - October 2012 and tagged Creative Time inequity making tactics occupation on October 1, 2012 by arc_berkeley.

My thoughts on inequity, making, occupation, and tactics are currently entangled. I am thinking through a recent paper by Daphne Plessner published online via Art & Education. At the moment, I cannot say anything better than she, so please forgive the cheap trick of supplying a quote and a link as my application into the Summit viewing party.

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CREATIVE TIME: Ana Labastida

This entry was posted in Blog CREATIVE TIME - October 2012 and tagged Creative Time tactics strategies pattern of relation on October 1, 2012 by arc_berkeley.

I propose that we consider the work of Donna Haraway on interspecies relations as a viable theoretical framework from which to elaborate strategies. Haraway defines “the world as a knot in motion” in which the interactions between species at all levels shape the world.

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Occupy as Form: Amanda Eicher

This entry was posted in Blog Occupy as Form - February 2012 and tagged tactics engagement occupy as form context on February 6, 2012 by arc_berkeley.

I am curious about how we have come to use the word tactic, a word which is distinctly military in form, but which is also at play in contemporary art practice through the use of phrases such as tactical aesthetics and tactical media. It seems to me that many of the gestures we make in everyday life may slip in and out of the frame of tactics, depending on their context.

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