Estonian Pavilion at 2018 Venice Biennale to Demonstrate How Built Architecture Is Inherently Political
As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage we present the proposal for the Estonian Pavilion. Below, the participants describe their contribution in their own words.
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As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage we present the proposal for the Estonian Pavilion. Below, the participants describe their contribution in their own words. Estonian Pavilion curators, Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa and Tadeá? ?íha, explore the spectrum between the explicit representation of the monument and the implicit politics of everyday architectures: from the triumphal column to the pavement beneath it, through all that is in between. The title itself ? Weak Monument ? is an oxymoron, a rhetorical device that offers fresh perspectives on how to recognize politics in any built form. Where does the monument stop and the pavement begin" Sometimes maintenance or neglect may overstep the boundary. Sometimes the difference is diminished by a protest, sometimes by a demolition. Sometimes it is the history, the location or the material that blurs the exceptional and the everyday. In those moments that we present, something new occurs, not precisely aligned to how the monument is traditionally understood, says curator Tadeá? ?íha. CURATORIAL
© Weak Monument
Weak Monument examines architecture?s capacity to be political, by juxtaposing two antithetical notions ? weakness and monumentality.Monuments reside on the mar...
© Weak Monument
As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage we present the proposal for the Estonian Pavilion. Below, the participants describe their contribution in their own words. Estonian Pavilion curators, Laura Linsi, Roland Reemaa and Tadeá? ?íha, explore the spectrum between the explicit representation of the monument and the implicit politics of everyday architectures: from the triumphal column to the pavement beneath it, through all that is in between. The title itself ? Weak Monument ? is an oxymoron, a rhetorical device that offers fresh perspectives on how to recognize politics in any built form. Where does the monument stop and the pavement begin" Sometimes maintenance or neglect may overstep the boundary. Sometimes the difference is diminished by a protest, sometimes by a demolition. Sometimes it is the history, the location or the material that blurs the exceptional and the everyday. In those moments that we present, something new occurs, not precisely aligned to how the monument is traditionally understood, says curator Tadeá? ?íha. CURATORIAL
© Weak Monument
Weak Monument examines architecture?s capacity to be political, by juxtaposing two antithetical notions ? weakness and monumentality.Monuments reside on the mar...
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