Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel, “Lernen von New York?,” in NewYork: Strukturen einer Metropole, ed. Häußermann and Siebel(Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1993), 21; Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier, “Das Dilemma der Städte: Sozialpolitik in New York City,” in Häußermann and Siebel, New York:Strukturen einer Metropole, 239.
Peter Marcuse, “Wohnen in New York: Segregationund fortgeschrittene Obdachlosigkeit in einer viergeteilten Stadt,” in Häußermann and Siebel, New York:Strukturen einer Metropole, 226. See also: “Homelessness today [is] somethingnew, something that one could call ‘advanced homelessness’ and which occurs asthe logical concomitant of a whole range of economic and political changes ... : homelessness in a technologically developed society,homelessness amid wealth and affluence,” 205.
Statistics of the “InterfaithAssembly on Homelessness and Housing'” (1990), cited in If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism: AProject by Martha Rosler, ed. Brian Wallis(Seattle: The New Press, 1991), 207.
If You Lived Here..., press release.
Pierre Bourdieu,“Physical Space, Social Space and Habitus,” Rapport (Department of Sociology andHuman Geography, University of Oslo) 10 (1996): 11.
Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch, “Wiedas Territorium gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge strukturiert,” in Stadt-Räume, ed. MartinWentz (Frankfurt am Main: Campus 1991), 246. Since 1960 Kevin Lynch has beenusing cognitive mapping as a research method to show the variable access ofdifferent groups to the city in which they live. Maps drawn from memory reflecthow different people perceive distances differently, or even the very existenceof city districts, depending on whether or not certain areas are frequented bya given social, ethnic, etc., group. Intentional omissions can occur (in thecase of socially higher-placed groups), and prohibited access can be subtlyindicated (with regard to underprivileged groups).
Rosler refused to makeuse of objects from the New York exhibition for an exhibition in St. Louis in1992: “And I told them this doesn’t interest me, because this has nothing to dowith the local community. So I stayed in St. Louis for a couple of weeks. Iwent to a lot of different sites and asked people if they would be interestedin working with me. There are no organized groups of homeless people, St. Louisis in the south of the United States and things are really different there.” Rosler inconversation with the author, Berlin, September 15, 1996.
Charles Wright, Director’s Report 1993–94, 2.
Jochen Becker, “L’art pourl’institution,” Kunstforum international 125 (January/February 1994): 227.
The DiaArt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York StateCouncil of the Arts were sponsors for both of the projects.
“I called my project ‘If You LivedHere...,’ from the memory of a gigantic sign Iused to see in childhood ... . In 1989 I chose this slogan for the showsbecause it is a real-estate line, one I had subsequently seen repeatedelsewhere ...” Martha Rosler, in Place, Position, Presentation, Public,ed. Ine Gevers (Amsterdam:Jan van Eyck Akademie/Maastricht, 1993), 82.
February 11–March 18, April1–19, and May 13–June 17, 1989, respectively.
Martha Rosler,in Wallis, If You Lived Here..., 33.
The areaextending west of Times Square is referred to primarily by real-estate agents as “Clinton”after a corporation that invested there. Otherwise the name “Hell’s Kitchen” iswidespread.
Linda Baldwin, Gustavo Bonevardi, Morgan Hare, and Lee Ledbetter.
Previously shown at the BronxInstitute, Herbert H. Lehmann College, and at the City University of New York.
The speakers were Irma Rodriguez,Chairwoman of the “Task Force on Housing Court,” a legal counseling andplacement organization for tenants; Neil Smith, Professor of Geography atRutgers University; Jim Haughton, representing several activist tenantorganizations; Oda Friedheimof the “Housing Justice Campaign”; the filmmaker BienvenidaMatias, who participated in the exhibition; andLori-Jean Saigh, the performance artist in the“Clinton Coalition of Concern.” The panel criticized mayor Edward Koch at thecommunal level as well as Reagan’s political decisions and their consequencesfor the United States. Smith introduced the image of the “frontier” into thediscussion connected with gentrification in Manhattan. During the unrestbetween police and demonstrating gentrification victims in the Tompkins Squarearea of the Lower East Side on August 6, 1988, Koch spoke of “frontierviolence”—a formulation testifying to what he saw as border struggles andterritorial claims. Smith quotes Koch in Wallis, If You Lived Here...,108.
The participants in this second legof the project were mainly members of activist aid and self-aid groups,self-organized accommodation, workshop, and political action groups.
The panel consisted of theorists andplanners: Robert Friedman of New York Newsday; the artist JamelieHassan; Peter Marcuse, urban planner at Columbia University; Mary Ellen Phifer, Chairwoman of the “Association of CommunityOrganizations for Reform Now” (Acorn), which organizes the reconstruction ofderelict and uninhabited buildings by and for the homeless; the politicalscientist Frances Fox Piven; and Peter Wood, Directorof the “Mutual Housing Association of New York” (MHANY).
Yvonne Rainer, in Wallis, If You Lived Here..., 169.
Martha Rosler,“If You Lived Here...,” in Copyshop, Kunstpraxis & PolitischeÖffentlichkeit, ed. BüroBert (Berlin: Edition ID-Archiv, 1993), 73.
Martha Rosler,“Fragments of a Metropolitan Viewpoint,” in Wallis, If You Lived Here...,15.
See for example BüroBert, Copyshop, Kunstpraxis& Politische Öffentlichkeit,73–76.
“The habituscould be considered as a subjective but not individual system of internalizedstructures, schemes of perception, conception, and action common to all membersof the same group or class.” Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice, trans.Richard Nice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 86.
See for example ed. Jonas Ekeberg, NewInstitutionalism, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 2003.
See also my text “The Rise and Fallof New Institutionalism,” Transform, August 2007, →.
Translated from the German by Christopher Jenkin-Jones