(Re)routing and (Re)rooting in Urban Exile

Schwarz, Mareike (2023): (Re)routing and (Re)rooting in Urban Exile. Exploring Villa Ocampo in Buenos Aires and Jassim House in Bombay with Actor-Network-Theory. In: Dogramaci, Burcu; Aygün, Ekatarina; Hetschold, Mareike; Lee, Rachel; Karp Lugo, Laura und Roth, Helene (Hrsg.): Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices. Bristol: intellect. S. 287-310

Abstract

In the first half of the 20th century two private homes in Buenos Aires and Bombay became the nodding point for creative exchanges between local and exiled artists. The Villa of Victoria Ocampo – writer, founder of Sur magazine and key figure in the art scene of Buenos Aires – was a space of encounters between Argentine writers such as José Luis Borges with emigré artists like the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti. The Villa was architecturally a mix of vernacular elements with European style features. Equally cooperative in spirit was the cultural circle around the Jassim House in Bombay. The three Asian co-founders of MARG magazine Mulk Raj Anand, Anil and Minnette de Silva were sewed into a diverse exile network here. Together with the Austrian artist couple Käthe and Walter Langhammer as well as the Indian art collector Homi Bhaba, they fostered a unique discourse on art and architecture. Again, the built environment resembled this social openness and permeability. Based on historic text and photographic material the paper analyses the human and non-human relations of these contact zones. Deploying Actor-Network-Theory it asks, which spatial, aesthetic, and personal factors constitute the “agency” (Latour 2010) of these social infrastructures in two metropolises shaped by emigration. In conclusion, the paper outlines the conditions for transcultural exchange in urban exile.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 724649
• EU-Projekte: Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Consolidator Grant > ERC Grant 724649: METROMOD - Relocating Modernism. Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile
• Publikationsform: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Urban Exile, Actor-Network-Theory, interdisciplinary research, architecture history, transcultural exchange, SUR magazine, MARG magazine, Villa Ocampo, Jassim House
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Department Kunstwissenschaften > Kunstgeschichte
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 700 Künste ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 720 Architektur
• ISBN: 9781789387674
• Ort: Bristol
• Bemerkung: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 724649- METROMOD)
• Sprache: Englisch

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