The Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation is an international institution for cultural studies and philosophical research in Venice, Italy.[1][2] It focuses on image politics in different areas of social communication, the media and the arts. Special emphasis is given to the study of image criticism in the avant-garde of the early 20th century.
The Institute grew out of the class on politics of representation at the IUAV University in Venice.[3] It was founded in 2006 by Lewis Baltz, Marco de Michelis , and Wolfgang Scheppe.[4] In 2009, it became an independent entity under the direction of Wolfgang Scheppe known for his urbanist and image critical work since the 2002 project Endcommercial.[5] It began exhibiting in its current location, the Marinarezza spaces in Venice, in 2017.[6]
The Institute's exhibitions are usually conceived as traveling exhibitions for international venues, designed and probed in the Venice premises in the form of laboratory installations. For example, the 2017 exhibition Tous Contre le Spectacle led to the large exhibition on the Situationists at the HKW in Berlin in 2018.[7] They are complemented by a program of lectures, conferences, guided tours and workshops.
The Arsenale Institute is located in a prominent building named Marinarezza located directly on the waterfront (Riva dei Sette Martiri).[4] It is recognised as an important example of Venetian vernacular architecture that anticipates the urbanism of the modern city.[8]
The complex, dating back to 1347 includes a series of houses that, since the 14th century, were given free of charge to seamen and shipyard workers at the Arsenale who had rendered services to the Republic of Venice.[9][4] In 1645, a front building for workshops and warehouses was added to the ensemble, enclosing the two alleys with monumental arches facing the waterfront. The three parallel rows of Gothic dwellings behind it embody not only one of the earliest known approaches to the concept of public housing, but also that of modular architecture.[10]
The following publications are based on research conducted or supported by the Institute:
Wolfgang Scheppe: Migropolis / Atlas of a Global Situation, 2 Vol., Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2009, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society, The British Council/Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2010, Шаблон:ISBNФайл:AI Books Barricade 9458 grey.jpgWolfgang Scheppe: Taxonomy Of The Barricade. Image Acts of Political Authority in May 1968, Nero, Rome, 2021, Шаблон:ISBN
Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point, Steidl, Göttingen 2011, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: 'The Garden of False Reality', in Candlestick Point, Steidl, Göttingen 2011, Шаблон:ISBN
Lewis Baltz: 'Migropolis', in: Texts, Steidl, Göttingen, 2012, Шаблон:ISBN
Lewis Baltz: Venezia Marghera, Steidl, Göttingen, 2013, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: The Things of Life / The Life of Things, 3 Vol., Walther König, Cologne, 2014, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: Logical Rain, SKD, Dresden, 2014, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: Supermarket of the Dead, Fire offerings in China and the Cult of Globalised Consumption, 3 Vol., Walther König, Cologne, 2015, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: 'L’invention de l’image de la Ville', in: Le Marais en héritage(s), Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2015, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: Surveying the Non-Human. On the Aesthetics of Racism, SKD, Dresden, 2016, Шаблон:ISBNФайл:AI Books Weiner 9468 grey.jpgWolfgang Scheppe: Leaving an Island (Lawrence Weiner’s farewell), Walther König, Köln, 2022, Шаблон:Isbn
Wolfgang Scheppe: 'Die legislative Erfindung des Stadtbildes', in: ARCH+ 225, 2016
Roberto Ohrt, Wolfgang Scheppe: The Most Dangerous Game, 2 Vol., Merve, Leipzig, 2018, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: 'The Ground-Rent of Art and Exclusion from the City', in: The Property Issue. Politics of Space and Data, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2020, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: Taxonomy of the Barricade, Image Acts of Political Authority in May 1968, Nero, Rome, 2021, Шаблон:ISBN
Michael Vahrenwald, Wolfgang Scheppe: The People's Trust, Kominek, Berlin, 2021, Шаблон:ISBN
Wolfgang Scheppe: Leaving an Island (Lawrence Weiner’s farewell), Walther König, Köln, 2022, Шаблон:ISBN
