@inbook{2b9f9d7a32664b26a2664eb1eb8e986f,
title = "A City Never Lies: Situational Irony as a Key to Address Public Urban Space.",
abstract = "In this text, I question the concepts of urban space and public art. Research interventions are conducted using situational irony as a method for reflecting on urban public situations and for knowledge production. Instead of interrogating people and involving them in the process, the interventions put questions directly to public infrastructure, to walls, fences, buildings and pedestrian ways. In a post-Beuysian vein, an artist workshop is extended to public space in order to work with its mechanisms and possibilities. The research aims to contribute to the redefinition of concepts regarding how we look at and develop public urban space. In this setup, irony is a key player in detecting relevant features of the urban situation.",
keywords = "art, artistic research, city planning, Irony, research intervention, art, artistic research, city planning, Irony, research intervention, art, artistic research, city planning, Irony, research intervention, public uban space, public art, pennants, signs of local identity",
author = "Denise Ziegler",
note = "Denise Ziegler is a artist and researcher of public space. She was born and grow up in Switzerland, lives and works in Helsinki Finland. Studies in Luzern at Schule f{\"u}r Gestaltung. Masters degree and doctorate at Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki (DFA 2010). Theses title: Features of the Poetic – The Mimetic Practice of the Visual Artist. Currantly post-doctoral researcher at PUPA (Pori Urban Plattform) at Aalto University, Finland. Denise Ziegler's works are traces of gestures, of human activity, of something that has occurred. She reconstruct events that refer to inconspicuous human activity or everyday things like home plants or garden fences, transplanting them into a new context. This endows Ziegler's works not only with poetic, but also conflicting and sometimes even comical or tautological features. Ziegler's reconstructed events are usually three-dimensional combinations of objects, but they can also be drawings, paintings, video works, or literary-visual works. By the term 'reconstruction' Ziegler refers to the process of transforming the underlying pattern of the piece (situation, event, image or object) into a work of art. Ziegler often works in and for public space. For work documentation see: denise-ziegler.squarespace.com Contact: denisezieglerdeniseziegler@gmail.com ",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "14",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-972-9370-21-2",
pages = "148--158",
editor = "Jos{\'e} Quaresma and Alys Longley and Dias, {Fernando Rosa}",
booktitle = "Research in Arts",
publisher = "The University of Auckland New Zealand / Creative Arts and Industries Dance Studies",
}