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The Ruins of Music
Music has a rather ephemeral materiality rendered in tangible things like CDs, cassettes, records, and perhaps even digital playlists, but its more compelling archaeological dimension is probably the historical landscapes of clubs and music districts that dot nearly every community. Local grassroots music tends to be relatively dynamic, but live music holds a tenacious if ever-transforming grip on the landscape: most communities can point to a distinctive soundscape of clubs, impromptu spaces, and places from churches to schools where music was the heart of local experience.
Music has had a profoundly consequential hold on youth culture for most of the last century, but many places' local musical heritages are in ruins or razed. The musical landscape is exceptionally dynamic: a parade of fringe styles continually step forward in nearly every place, articulating a host of local, generational, and social experiences. Most musical circles seek some modestly satisfying measure of relevance, creative community, and profitability, and some express broad if not universal anxieties and sentiments while others are simply more ephemeral sounds. Read the rest of this entry
Failed Ambition: Ruins, Gaze, and Public Housing
Much of our fascination with ruins—and perhaps some of our uneasiness—revolves around their stark testimony to failure, and perhaps no ruins aesthetically underscore the collapse of modernity more clearly than public housing. Public housing was born from a distinctive marriage of modernist optimism and racist and classist ideologies aspiring to remake the American city (and with many global parallels). Last week Detroit's Brewster-Douglass housing project went under the wrecking ball, another in a series of 20th-century housing projects—Pruitt-Igoe, Cabrini Green, the Robert Taylor Homes—that are routinely stereotyped as the epitaph for modernity's over-reaching ambition, xenophobic nostalgia, or the misplaced optimism of state-supported housing. Regardless of their legacy, the ruins and razing of public housing raise interesting questions about gaze and how we see and imagine particular sorts of ruins.
Ruins fascinate us because they energize our imaginations, providing material evidence of lost experiences while simultaneously underscoring the passing of that heritage. Those lost experiences assume meaning through an idiosyncratic mix of popular iconography, mass discourses, and personal spatial and material experiences that shape how we perceive places like Detroit (what Edward Said referred to as "imaginative geographies"). Every ruin fuels a distinctive corner of our imagination and tells a distinct sort of story, and the narrative of public housing ruination is distinguished in modest but critical ways from the tales woven about industrial decline, dead malls, or eroding post-Soviet landscapes. Read the rest of this entry
The Feral City: The Convergence of Ruins and Nature
Detroit's Brush Park was once one of the city's finest Gilded Age neighborhoods, a 22-block community of mansions that included a host of high style Victorian homes within reach of downtown. Referred to by one period observer as the "little Paris of the Midwest," Brush Park was home to some of the city's wealthiest residents between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century, when it began to gradually decline, transformed into boarding houses during the Depression and subsequently declining along with much of the postwar city. Today, only about 80 of the neighborhood's roughly 300 original structures remains standing. Some rehabilitated homes stand alongside others that are decaying as forlorn testimony to the neighborhood's former glory, and the remaining homes are magnets for artists, preservationists, and urbanites re-imagining the life of the city. Read the rest of this entry
Burying Trauma: Cemeteries and Heritage at Central State Hospital
In September 1903 The Indianapolis Journal reported that Oliver S. Clay and his mother Charlotte "for years have lived in their home at 1405 East Sixteenth street, but on account of reverses, financial and otherwise, were compelled to mortgage their property for several hundred dollars, which, on becoming due, remained unpaid." In many ways, Clay's story of ill fortune might well be told of many of his early 20th-century neighbors. His father J.H. Clay had been the Pastor of the Bethel AME Church in Indianapolis until his death in 1892. After his father's death Oliver was an advocate for African-American education and a Black political party, and in the 1902 election he led an African-American movement to vote a blank ballot, telling The Indianapolis Journal that "if the white politicians will give the negroes recognition then he will advocate voting." However, like many Americans entertaining the American Dream, Clay's ambition and hard work ended in tragedy as he was evicted, institutionalized, and eventually relegated to a potter's field. The ultimate fate of his mortal remains punctuate both his unfortunate end and the way contemporary society routinely ignores the unpleasant histories at the heart of American life.
In 1901 the Public Library Bulletin reported on Clay's aspiration to turn his home into what he dubbed the Claysonian Library. Clay's collection included "the 315 volumes comprising the library of his father, the Rev. J. H. Clay, deceased, to which have been added by donation a sufficient number of books to make the collection 521 volumes, besides miscellaneous magazines and periodicals. The object is to cultivate a taste for literature among the young colored people, especially of the immediate neighborhood." Oliver Clay's neighborhood library was dedicated in April 1901 on what would have been his father's 51st birthday, and several months later he received a gift of 50 volumes from Congressman Jesse Overstreet. The library subsequently hosted regular events at the Clays' home and local venues, such as a lecture on the Emancipation Proclamation's 40th Anniversary in January 1903.
In August, 1903, though, the Indianapolis Sun reported that Clay "has, with the furniture of the institution of which he is founder, been ejected into the street." Clay moved his things back into the home and told the newspaper that "`You may say, mistah, that the Claysonian will be re-established in other quatahs soon and that the good work started by me will never die.'" In September a realtor returned in an effort to eject the Clays and once again "started to move the furniture out into the street. When he looked up he was gazing into the barrel of a revolver held firmly in the dusky hand of the Claysonian. `Claysonia forever!' cried Oliver Clay, `and if you dare to move anything from this house you will forfeit your life.'" Read the rest of this entry
The Time Capsule Effect: Pristine Abandonment and the Ideal Ruin
Sometime in the late-1960s the proprietors of a modest shoe store closed its doors, leaving the stock neatly stacked along its walls. It remained there apparently untouched until a year ago, when a descendant opened the doors to find a mountain of shoe boxes and footwear and a typical small business seemingly as it had been left the day it was shuttered. Shoe collectors' hearts leapt at the prospect of the magical specter of "old store stock" in its original packaging transformed to the status of "vintage." The implied riches of the assemblage on ebay have captured much of the popular curiosity with the little store, but the more fascinating story is the "time capsule" effect of the assemblage and similar "pristine" abandonment spaces, not simply the allure of a pair of vintage wingtips.
Ruins are material and aesthetic vehicles for the imagination, sometimes simply for a "lost time" and in other hands as moral statements about the collapse of cities, industry, or communities. The undisturbed shoe store is an example of perhaps the most compelling of all abandoned sites: the "time capsule" left as it "really was" in an un-staged moment arresting the flow of a distant material life. The archetype for the time capsule site is Pripyat, the nuclear city rapidly abandoned in April, 1986 after the Chernobyl disaster. Tours now venture to Pripyat to walk amidst the detritus of everyday life and the specter of disaster apparently arrested in time. Read the rest of this entry
Ruins and Race in a World War II Ghost Town
Perhaps the most distinctive ruins of the Cold War lie east of Richmond, Virginia. In 1943 a decoy airfield was constructed by the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion to confuse potential aerial attacks on the US Army Air Corps based at nearby Byrd Field in Henrico County. The battalion constructed a series of artificial structures and a fake runway arranged much like that at Byrd Field. Yet a compelling if somewhat more complicated story is provided by the tract's post-war history and its interpretation in the subsequent half-century.
In February, 1947 the state bid to purchase the decoy airport tract in Elko from the War Assets Administration with the intention to build an African-American mental hospital. A streetscape, drainage, fire hydrants, and a water tower were erected, yet by June 1954 the Richmond paper had reported that "$500,000 of utilities are rusting at Elko." In October 1955 the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star reported that the state was beginning training of "the grounds and buildings department of the proposed Negro training school and hospital at Elko near Richmond," but in February, 1957 the Governor approved a switch of the hospital's site from Elko to Petersburg. The unfinished ghost landscape left behind remains an overgrown empty grid today attesting to measures of arrogance, racism, and distorted historical memory that distinguish Cold War America. Read the rest of this entry
Renovating Ruins: Ruination, Consumption, and Art
At the heart of Indianapolis, Indiana's Holliday Park sit the remnants of an artwork its designer hoped would be known as Constitution Mall. The remains are typically referred to simply as "the Ruins," though, and in the heart of the city park they are a picturesque if unexpected backdrop: ambiguously evocative of a deteriorating heritage, the Greek columns, a reflecting pool, and a scatter of limestone statuary are today fenced-in and grown over with weeds. The centerpiece of the remains is an 1898 sculpture designed by Karl Bitter known as "the Races of Mankind" depicting three kneeling figures who represent "the Caucasian, Negro, and Mongolian races bearing mankind's burden."
The three sculptures were created at the end of the 19th century, but the installation itself was created in the 1960s and 1970s, a faux ruin rather than a genuine architectural shell. Park boosters' interest in "renovating" the Ruins now signals that the piece has passed from an artwork evoking romantic ruination to a true ruin that somehow fails to capture an aesthetic ideal and has no self-evident consumable value. The discussion over how to rescue an artwork that was always intended to be a ruin illuminates the complicated intersection of aesthetics and ruination.
Bitter's statues came to Indianapolis in 1958 after the St. Paul Building in New York City was torn down. Architect Francis Keally presided over a committee that reviewed proposals for re-using the statues: the city of Indianapolis, as well as New York University, Columbia, and Farleigh Dickenson submitted plans to re-use the sculptures. The New York Times' Meyer Berger reported that "Indianapolis was awarded the figures by a committee because it plans to set them in the middle of a reflecting pool, a lofty setting identical to that envisioned by the sculptor." The paper indicated that Indianapolis architect David V. Burns "has drawn tentative plans for the future installation." Read the rest of this entry
Beneath the Surface of Abandonment
Abandonment art is routinely lamented for its literal and metaphorical focus on aesthetic surfaces; that is, abandonment art risks reducing the weathered, damaged, and derelict exteriors of abandoned buildings to an ahistorical style that fails to illuminate processes of ruination. Some critiques of ruin art are guilty of their own romantic desire to paint transparently uplifting or "authentic" pictures of a place; in many instances, they somewhat xenophobically resist a host of "outsiders" spilling into eroding urban cores; and some critics of "ruin porn" hazard ignoring the genuine structural decline of much of urban America. Nevertheless, a shallow gaze on abandoned landscapes may indeed hazard trivializing complicated historical decline by fixating on the visual dimensions of ruin.
Ruins may well have assumed their elevated contemporary prominence because of the digital documentation of abandonment: the likes of flick'r and tumbl'r are awash with ruin images; instagram-armed camera phones document a decaying planet; and artsy urban transplants have led a digital dissection of the ruins in their midst. Images of decline can quite productively evoke waste, loss, and transition and fuel interventions against structural processes of ruination; the challenge simply is to avoid romanticized notions of an aesthetic decline disconnected from deep-seated inequalities.
An archaeological approach to ruination ideally sifts through layers of ruination and visually and materially interprets processes of creation, growth, decline, and ruin. Some artists may be borrowing much the same method to creatively rethink ruins. Polish artist Ewa Fornal, for instant, might be circumspectly characterized as an abandonment artist. Fernal, who lives and works in Ireland, toys with the distinction between aesthetic surfaces and the historical depth of ruination. Many photographers work with the visual representation of abandonment, but Fornal is among a handful of artists who work with the material detritus of ruins (e.g., the 2010 Modern Ruin exhibit in Dallas). Read the rest of this entry
Abandoned Faith: The Aesthetics of Religious Ruins
Perhaps the most compelling abandonment art evokes emotional absence, the literal loss of people if not whole ways of life that once inhabited the buildings, communities, and discrete places in ruin art. Mental hospitals and schools, for instance, are routinely featured by photographers because they once housed emotionally intense experiences, be it the depths of mental illness and the despair of incarceration or the innocence of childhood and the hopefulness of education. Those powerful but ephemeral feelings are in some ways heightened in hindsight by the decay of the buildings themselves, whose decaying shells help us see change and imagine what has been lost. In many cases ruined spaces aesthetically evoke social "illnesses," like the stigmatization of mental illness and the health care abuses implied in the shell of an asylum; the decline of industry underscored in an abandoned factory; or the changes in mass leisure and post-war suburbanization that led to the collapse of grand city theaters.
Few abandonment sites paint more compelling if idiosyncratic emotional absences than Holy Land USA, a Waterbury, Connecticut religious park that closed in 1984. Abandonment art routinely depicts amusement parks, whose ruins cast a captivating aesthetics of imaginative play and imply a certain innocence. Yet Holy Land USA breaks from the conventional amusement park in both its subject matter and the materiality of the decaying park. The park has been the focus of numerous abandonment artists and urban explorers drawn to the host of eroding Holy Land dioramas. Amusement parks often figure in abandonment art since its meanings are rooted in pleasure even as their ruins tragically underscore the advance of nature.
Holy Land USA is also a compelling symbol of faith, and perhaps even more so in decline than it may have had at its height as a tourist attraction in the 1960s and 1970s. Abandonment artists routinely examine churches, which symbolize something ostensibly timeless, capture the depth of hope invested in some spaces, and evoke both the consequence of faith and the decline of religion. Like amusement parks littered with aesthetically novel and fascinating things, churches provide exceptionally powerful aesthetic spaces, especially in decline: church spaces can be visually arresting, often-monumental shells through which light streams in captivating ways through now-absent congregations. Just as amusement parks often reveal the shifts in mass-consumed leisure in the 21st century, churches document the 20th-century city, forlorn in many neighborhoods depopulated by choice and circumstance alike. Abandonment art paints churches as symbols of the collapse of the urban core, and the ruin's symbolism as a dead space shallowly intones the decline of religion itself.
Holy Land USA was the inspiration of Waterbury lawyer John B. Greco, a devout Catholic who began construction of the park in 1956 with the ambition to "bring people closer to God." Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and various biblical stories were represented by unique, handmade figures and structures whose mixed scales, hand-crafted style, and decorative deities might be interpreted as both kitsch and craft. The park was roughly akin to the sacri monti (i.e., sacred mountains) that dotted Italy during the late 15th and early 18th centuries. Like Greco's Holy Land, the sacri monti recreated the Holy Land for pilgrims unable to venture to the near East. Greco and a team of volunteers made the park's dioramas representing Biblical moments including Bethlehem, Daniel in the Lions' den, and the hilltop of the Crucifixion, crafting the exhibits from whatever they had on hand. In 2005 the Hartford Courant indicated that the distinctive Holy Land ruins "featured a non-working, doorless upright freezer housing a statue of Jesus with the Sacred Heart, and a Garden of Eden display consisting of naked mannequins — Adam and Eve — amid fake plants inside a mobile home."
Greco had traveled in the Near East and visited some of the spaces represented in his park, but the park borrowed from popular cultural symbolism and pure imagination alike. The park's hillside, for instance, was covered with an illuminated Holy Land USA sign like the Hollywood letters, and in 1997 a Boy Scout project restored the letters. Yet other displays like Herod's Palace had no stylistic reference to any classical architectural form and instead looked like a modest shed laid out on a putt-putt course. After Greco's death the park was inherited by a Catholic religious order, falling into disrepair even as its idiosyncratic style attracted photographers and repelled style arbiters. In 2002, for instance, the New York Times indicated that "the gray plaster Temple of Jerusalem, affectionately called `unhistorical and funky' by one local religious scholar, now more closely resembles a prop from a Japanese monster movie." The Times described the park as "Catholic-oriented religious kitsch — much of it miniaturized and built with scrap machine parts." The Daily Show dispatched Stephen Colbert to the scene in 2002, examining the disagreements over the park's preservation and the projection of kitsch onto faith.
Unlike kitsch, though, Holy Land USA certainly seems not to have been fabricated as intentionally garish excess; instead, it looms as heartfelt folk art whose symbolism seems melodramatic only because it was proselytizing, and appeals to the soul rarely are articulated with subtlety. Pictures of Greco's park now expose its hand-crafted essence of chicken wire figures, recycled plywood, machine parts, and paper mache now eroding into the Connecticut hillside. In 2008 the eroding 56-foot cross planted on the hilltop was replaced by a 50-foot steel cross, but the remainder of the park appears to be in relatively rapid decline. The ruins of Holy Land USA depart from utterly commercial material shows of faith consumption (e.g., The Holy Land Experience), and in its decline Holy Land USA paints a compelling aesthetic of faith and folk art. Like the most compelling ruins, it provides a visually arresting evocation of absence, in this case evoking the proselytizers and pilgrims who once trooped through the park.
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Frances Chamberlain 2001 The View From/Waterbury; A Hilltop Landmark Undergoes a Revival. New York Times 4 November.
Martin Kearns 1986 Man Who Built Waterbury's Holy Land USA Dies. The Hartford Courant 11 March:B1.
Ann Marie Somma 2005 At Holy Land USA, A Vision Crumbles: Waterbury's Faded Monument Of Religious Kitsch Is Still Controversial. Hartford Courant 28 August.
Paul Zielbauer 2002 A Sight That Inspires Ambivalence; Ruins of a Religious Park Await Restorers or the Bulldozer. The New York Times 12 November.
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Metaphors for Abandonment: Exploring Urban Ruins
An astounding number of web pages document abandoned materiality, encompassing a broad range of architectural spaces including asylums, bowling alleys, industrial sites, Cold War sites, and roadside motels as well as smaller things like pianos and even scale models of abandonment. This ruination lust is not simply the province of a small handful of visual artists, hipsters colonizing Detroit, or recalcitrant trespassers; instead, it invokes something that reaches far deeper socially, has international dimensions, extends well into the past, and reflects a deep-seated fascination with—if not apprehension of—abandonment. The question is what explains our apparently sudden collective fascination with abandonment, ruination, and decay. The answers are exceptionally complex and highly individual, but there seem to be some recurrent metaphors in these discourses.
For "urban explorers" (a term that might loosely include artists, photographers, archaeologists, and curious folks alike), such journeys seek out "abandoned, unseen, and off-limits" spaces that imagine ruination in a wide range of artistic, emotional, scholarly, and political forms. Many of these urban explorers and artists see themselves as visual historians, documenting the architectural and community heritage reflected in abandoned spaces. For instance, Jonathan Haeber's urban exploration blog Bearings explains that "I'm just an eye. I'm just a camera. … An urban explorer is just a documentarian. … We only appreciate the creations that are overlooked. … It is what remains that is the democratic equivalent of a revolution."
This is a politically circumspect expression of the explorer as a visual chronicler who records the prosaic material dimensions of abandoned material heritage. It focuses on the power of aesthetically documenting abandonment, often to fortify a general appreciation for the breadth of heritage but not always in especially articulate ways. Urban Ghosts: Forgotten Places and Urban Curiosities, for example, argues that its mission through such images is to underscore that "History is all around us, on every street corner. Almost every place has a story to tell, but so much goes unnoticed, or simply pales into insignificance alongside heavy-hitting giants like the pyramids."
The thorough Guerilla Historian page argues that urban exploration can produce a historical narrative that is complicated by the physical and aesthetic depiction of ruination, arguing that "Staring into the unfamiliar past, artificial environments and composites of micro-histories is a way to construct a depth perception for our own timeline." This focus on the experience of exploring ruined materiality is not at all novel, but the Guerilla Historian envisions this producing a historical narrative focused on people's story-telling. Such a people's history of ruination is based on grassroots commitment to the details of everyday heritage that some observers believe is outside conventional academic history. Guerilla Historian suggests that "If history is written only by the winners, we are all losers. I come from a place where history is something you can walk on and climb on, something to be found and felt. Come with me. Our past has been relegated to weighty dusty bookshelves in this culture, treated as dead weight that holds modernity, innovation and progress itself back—I disagree. Our past is always obscured behind the veil of contemporary interpretation, and this work represents mine: a world where the past is freed from rotting pages and can teach us who we are." Some urban explorers share a comparable vision of their historiography as a foil to mainstream narratives; this risks over-stating the conservatism of academic historians, but it does capture that much of everyday materiality is absolutely irrelevant to mainstream historians, and urban explorers (including most historical archaeologists) celebrate the everyday world even as they acknowledge the profoundly complicated histories of loss in America.
Many of these projects focus on how the photographic representation of abandonment is utterly dependent on the bodily experience of a creative, curious, and sympathetic eye moving through ruined landscapes. Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America page has thoroughly chronicled urban abandonment, and his assessment of abandonment hinges on the physical experience of moving through these ruined landscapes, which he refers to as the "visceral experience of entering a parallel universe." In an Atlantic Cities article on "ruin porn," Christopher acknowledged that "It was a case of that old cliché, 'a picture speaks a thousand words.' … When I'd try to talk about the presences that seem to linger in these places, people would look at me like I should be in an asylum myself. When I showed them pictures — they'd suddenly get it." Many if not most urban explorers believe that a visual record of a place is uniquely documented by a photographer who thinks creatively and embraces prosaic ruination, taking pictures in ways that our sight may not otherwise have seen and stressing what Travis Parno calls "the potency of the imagination." Beauty in Decay, for instance, aspires to "walk in the eerie footsteps of long departed souls through haunted houses turned to dust and industrial complexes surrendered to nature," arguing that "to understand the siren song of these places requires a certainly more poetic mindset than one might be used to occupying. Think back to your childhood for a moment and it all begins to make sense. … At the very point we cross the border from childhood into adolescence we cross real physical borders too. It's the moment in our lives when we test the boundaries."
For some of these explorers, this is more than an exercise in taking good pictures or breaking into buildings. The Beauty in Decay project acknowledges that with "a digital SLR camera and High Dynamic Range software it has become very much easier to take awesome photographs," yet they do not reduce it simply to an aesthetic exploration; instead, they argue that "photography appears to be the symptom and not the disease." Rather than reduce urban abandonment to voyeuristic curiosity or shallow artistic vision, the Beauty in Decay project suggests that explorers "in the comfortable and over-protected 'first world' are living in an enforced and extended state of childhood. They have remembered that they are capable of having unmediated experiences of reality and they welcome the fear that may (or may not) come with those experiences. The fear itself is the gateway to go through. It's the gateway that leads for many to 'wonderland'. This is the world through the looking glass that in some dark corner of every soul, we are all looking for." This frames urban exploration as the pursuit of meaningful experiences in an over-built world that provides a false security; it is in the ruins of that very world that we encounter ourselves and our society and plumb the depths of our most unsettled sentiments about ourselves and modernity.
Many urban explorers characterize ruin as "beauty," a romantic nostalgia with deep historical roots. For urban explorer Jonathan Haeber, for instance, the ruined landscape provides "beauty and ephemerality," securing its aesthetic appeal from its very ruination and the decay inevitable in all materiality's return to nature. The implication of this notion of beauty is that the seeds of decay are in all materiality and technology, and we acknowledge this transience through our own willingness to see that ruination all about us. One somewhat overwrought description of the Beauty in Decay project rhapsodized that urban explorers "collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new, polished, uniform, and mundane. Urban explorers find the beauty—layers of graffiti by years worth of writers, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, someone's initials left in the dust on a broken stained glass window—and physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces can hold." This views decay as traces of memory, a somewhat romantic notion of the ruin as a pleasing fantasy whose materiality haunts the present but does not invoke the future.
The most distinctive definition of the relationship between beauty and ruin is a rapidly emerging school of photographic art that uses abandoned ruins as the stark backdrop for fashion images or nudes (for a relatively SFW example, see Beauty in Decay compiler Romanywg's facebook page). For instance, visual artist Miru Kim's "Naked Spleen" series depicts her nude in a variety of urban ruins, explaining that "Experiencing feelings of alienation and anxiety in the city–a city that has increasingly become more surveilled and commodified–I began to understand how many artists and authors suffered from severe bouts of depression, inertia, and isolation, which the term spleen embodies. One of the ways I escaped such feelings was to visit desolate and hidden places in the city. … Exploring industrial ruins and structures made me look at the city as one living organism. I started to feel not only the skin of the city, but also to penetrate the inner layers of its intestines and veins, which swarm with miniscule life forms. These spaces—abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards—form the subconscious of the city, where collective memories and dreams reside. … As I momentarily inhabit these deserted sites, they are transformed from strange to familiar, from harsh to calm, from dangerous to ludic." This actually invokes a common urban explorers' desire for an unmediated experience, it simply inflates the sensory dimensions of that experience and produces more jarring images by juxtaposing a nude with ruination. Others have used urban ruins as a very different sort of backdrop: For instance, the Gakuranman site's guide to urban exploring includes the story that one urban explorer "tells us that she has also bumped into crews shooting adult photography and video on more than one occasion, which was quite embarrassing for both parties."
Matthew Christopher has a sober explanation for the meanings of his images of abandonment. He somewhat counter-intuitively (if rhetorically) argues that his images have no intended moral or political lessons, arguing that each picture of an abandoned place "filters a fraction of another microcosm of loss. This place was many things to the many people who knew it: a source of income, memories of good times with family and friends, maybe even an inspiration or an ideal. Those things are gone now. Here is the corpse left behind, which we can parade around for our entertainment, and wax philosophical."
The specific reasons for focusing our gaze on those "corpses" reveal the complicated sociopolitics of ruination. Brian Dillon argues that late-18th century Romanticism turned the mutilated remains of classical artworks or the fragments of buildings to a "randomly chosen instant," celebrating decay and the ruined fragment but resisting a unified narrative. This perspective would seem well-suited to many urban explorers fascinated by material details and idiosyncratic experiences in abandoned spaces, and their fascination with preserving the moment is reflected in the recurrently invoked "code of honour" to "take only pictures, leave only footprints." That code aspires to freeze the moment of abandonment, merging the abandoned ruin with nature and leaving it to "natural" decaying processes.
Yet many observers approach abandonment as an exposition of the "ruins of modernity," casting ruination scholarship as fascination with the "corpse" of a history we believed to be resistant to transience if not permanent. This is a perspective that risks romanticizing stability, even if at least obliquely reflecting a simultaneous discomfort with modernity's lust for "progress." In 1911 Georg Simmel argued that ruination is inevitable, and he suggested that ruins emphasize the folly of political and cultural permanence. Julia King's fascinating study Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past has examined how contemporary historic sites have constructed "ruins" to frame historical interpretations on otherwise blank landscapes. Her assessment of such manufactured ruins in Southern Maryland dissects the inelegant ideology of aestheticized historical ruins that borrow from 19th-century romanticization of ruins, seeking a permanence that inelegantly effaces the landscape of racism in places like Southern Maryland. Such permanence is what Albert Speer aspired to ensure for the Third Reich in his "theory of ruin value", which described architecture designed to decay gracefully and aesthetically. In his 1970 memoirs, Speer indicated that during a construction project the
"Nuremberg streetcar depot had to be removed. I passed by its remains after it had been blown up. The iron reinforcements protruded from concrete debris and had already begun to rust. One could easily visualize their further decay. This dreary sight led me to some thoughts which I later propounded to Hitler under the pretentious heading of `A Theory of Ruin Value.' The idea was that buildings of modern construction were poorly suited to form that `bridge of tradition' to future generations which Hitler was calling for. It was hard to imagine that rusting heaps of rubble could communicate these heroic inspirations which Hitler admired in the monuments of the past. By using special materials and by applying certain principles of statics, we should be able to build structures which even in a state of decay, after hundreds or (such were our reckonings) thousands of years would more or less resemble Roman models."
Despite this pronouncement coming from a Nazi, Speer voiced a common aspiration for architecture to provide a state a historical, ideological, and material presence long after its fall. Naomi Stead cleverly argues that Speer's caricature of the ahistorical ruin was a reaction against the relics around him that were obviously part of his social moment and testaments to its failures. The distinction between most contemporary ruins and Speer's idealized relics is that most of the abandoned factories, theaters, and asylums in our midst have a historical patina but are nevertheless clearly of a moment we recognize as "ours." Speer instead aimed to produce ruins that belied their age and merged with nature, casting these buildings as timelessly historical.
Matthew Christopher persistently uses the metaphor of "death" to describe his images of abandonment, arguing that "At its core, the photography of ruins is fundamentally about death. … the very basis for the entire genre is that the photographs are of abandoned–or dead–spaces. … the key element is that what they once were created for is no longer. Much in the same way, a host of chemical and biological processes continue in a corpse but it is still no longer considered living." This assessment of ruination art, exploration, and abandonment discourse focuses on the corpse of modernity retaken by nature, a gaze that can be reduced to romantic nostalgia (ironically, a central feature of modernist gaze), or it can view the ruin as an active entity that has a genuine politics revived by an aesthetic gaze.
This "death" underlies Christopher's political argument that his images document not simply an abstract notion of abandonment and decay; instead,
"Each one represents failure. On a micro level, this is evidenced in the building itself and the failure of the owners to fund/maintain whatever it was established for. On a macro level, it often applies to the community's inability to support the business, and to an even greater extent can be indicative of lost industries and economic collapse on the county and state level. I would argue that the culmination of these failures shows a trend even greater (and more ominous), that of an overall social decline leading to the fall of an entire empire."
This sober if not dystopian perspective views images as "a eulogy for the lost ways of life they represent, a statement of their emotional, spiritual, and metaphoric relevance to our everyday lives, and a sense of the visceral experience of entering a parallel universe of silence, rust, and peeling paint." These profoundly consequential tales of abandonment are counter-intuitively told with exceptionally prosaic spaces, but many artists of ruination and post-apocalyptism routinely depict the world's most famous landmarks, with appearances from Big Ben, Red Square, Cristo Redentor, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, the Pentagon, Harrods, and of course the Statue of Liberty. This casts ruination into the future and places us clearly within a material and historical landscape constantly in processes of decay and ruination.
Christopher invests his politics into his images but is counter-intuitively reluctant to assume the political meanings of the pictures. Instead, he argues that "As is often the case, I have the question–not just an idle curiosity, but a big gaping hole where meaning is supposed to be–but not the answer. … Why does the husk of the building photographed matter? Why does the moment this image captured matter? Why does it matter that you're looking at it now and reading this?" For Christopher those are open questions posed by images, and it remains for us to turn them into political and policy statements that address built preservation and illuminate the structural conditions that produce contemporary abandonment.
Brian Dillon
2005 Fragments from a History of a Ruin. Cabinet 20.
2010 Decline and Fall: Tracing the History of Ruins in Art. Frieze 130.
Greco, Joann
2012 The Psychology of Ruin Porn. Altantic Cities.
Julia A. King
2012 Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. (partial reading version on google books)
Naomi Stead
2003 The Value of Ruins: Allegories of Destruction in Benjamin and Speer. Form/Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Built Environment 6:51-64. Available online at Naomi Stead's wordpress site.
Urban Ruins web pages
There are an astounding number of web pages documenting abandoned structures, ruins, and the aesthetics of urban exploring. Try starting with this list of pages.
Abandoned Places flick'r group
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Conserving the Twentieth Century
Explorations of Beauty and Decay
Haikyo: Urban Exploration in Japan
Sub-Urban: Main Drainage of the Metropolis
Image credits
Abandoned manor image courtesy howzey flick'r group Abandoned Manor
Runwell Hospital image courtesy howzey flick'r group Runwell Mental Hospital
Nuremberg image courtesy Adams Jones Ph.D. Global Archives Nuremberg flick'r set
Potato factory image courtesy Harm Rhebergen flick'r page
Tampere factory image courtesy Tiia Monto in wikimedia commons
Spreepark image courtesy Norbert Lov flick'r group Spreepark
Nike missile silo image courtesy www78
Cocoa Palms resort image courtesy peptic_ulcer
Cork building image courtesy slinky2000
child's chair in asylum image courtesy World of Good
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What you say when someone says something that sounds perverted. Kinda like "that's what she said"
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uMARK.IT is a start-up focused on developing mobile tech solutions to help small business and those organizations facilitating their success. Our first product enables entrepreneurs to record financial transactions on their mobile while our 'cloud' server constructs their financial statements for them. The product is being tested by street vendors in New York City, and a partnership with a microfinance institution in Peru is being established to provide more testing and feedback. The second product is a data- capturing platform built on SMS text messages. An NGO in Singapore is using the platform to track data and measure their impact using the IRIS metrics, developed by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Acumen Fund.
Currently, our 2 member team is based in New York City, but we have work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and SE Asia. Our technical lead has developed numerous web and android products, in addition to experience in commercial finance. The business development lead has experience in the microfinance, non-profit and mobile payments sectors.
Deliverable: App for Nokia Ovi Store
Position Type: Contract
Start Date: ASAP
Position Description:
We are looking for a consultant to build an app for Nokia's Ovi store that will act as an interface for our web platform that constructs users' financial statements. In short, the app will allow small businesses to record and store information about financial transactions then send the data to our web-based server via the mobile web.
We would like to start evaluating proposals as soon as possible.
How to apply
If this opportunity interests you, please contact us at email@example.com, and we will send a terms of reference document in order for you to realistically estimate feasibility, time and costs. Applicants with previous experience developing apps for Nokia and/or Android phones are preferred.
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Henrion's big weekend leads UNH to victory
The UNH men's hockey team earned three out of four points in a crucial series against UMass-Amherst this past weekend, with a 2-2 tie on Friday night and a 4-0 win Saturday night. The Wildcats now sit in second place in Hockey East (31 points) trailing UMass-Lowell by a single point.
John Henrion lead the Wildcats over the weekend, scoring four goals between the two games, tying him for the lead in goals (13) with Austin Block.
Friday night's game had one of the craziest finishes of the season for the Wildcats. With just 1:05 left in the third period, Eddie Olczyk was able to knock in a rebound to give the Minutemen a late lead. Henrion was able to tie the game with just 3.7 seconds left, giving UNH a tie and one point.
UNH dominated the second game, with Henrion playing one of his best games of the season.
"I thought the team jumped out early and maintained it for sixty minutes," UNH head coach Dick Umile said. "We didn't let up at all."
After a scoreless first period, Henrion scored his first just 1:10 into the second period. Nick Sorkin forced a turnover on the back check on UMass' breakout, resulting in a 2-on-1 rush for the Wildcats with Casey Thrush and Henrion. Thrush fed Henrion with a saucer pass over the defender's stick and Henrion tipped the puck past UMass goaltender Steve Mastalerz.
Henrion's second goal of the evening came on the power play at the 10:43 of the second period. who the puck behind the net and created some space to shoot, getting enough time for his wrist shot to go under the glove of Mastalerz.
""I couldn't even see the net, I just fired it there," Henrion said. "It was a big scrum in front of the net, credit to those guys (on the power play) for screening the goal."
The third goal came in the third period when Kevin Goumas had his pass deflected in the neutral zone. The puck slid to Matt Willows, who got behind the defense and unleashed a wrist shot that went past Mastalerz's blocker.
Henrion tallied his hat-trick with an empty net goal with just 28 seconds remaining, bringing the game to its final score of 4-0.
"The guys did a great job with the power play, it was a good night," Umile said. "We've said before (Henrion's) got a great shot...Casey (DeSmith) makes big saves when he has to make them."
DeSmith notched his fifth shutout of the season, and now leads Hockey East in all four primary goaltending categories (wins, save percentage, goals against average and shutouts).
The Wildcats are now sitting in second place behind the Riverhawks of UMass-Lowell, trailing by just a point. The Riverhawks are playing some of the best hockey in the country, going 17-2-1 in their last twenty games. The Wildcats, however, have beaten them three times this season by a combined score of 13-4.
Boston College and Providence College are tied for third place with thirty points, hoping to make up some ground in the last weekend of the season. Boston University (28 points) and Merrimack College (27 points) are in fifth and sixth place, respectively, and still have a chance to jump into the top four to earn home ice during the Hockey East tournament.
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"We'll be watching the other games (on Sunday night)," Umile said on Thursday. "We're in control of our destiny from here on out."
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TRIPOLI – One person was killed and at least four others were injured when a rocket struck a commercial area in Libyan capital Tripoli late Tuesday night, eyewitnesses said.
The rocket set caused a fire that spread into several shops in the southeastern Sidra district, where eyewitnesses say it might have been fired from the southwest.
Eyewitnesses also said the rocket might have aimed at - but missed - a militia camp located near the area.
Sounds of gunfire and explosions were heard in many areas across Tripoli on Tuesday night, as key army generals announced support for renegade commander Khalifa Haftar who has unleashed an offensive against militias in the restive eastern Benghazi city since Friday.
The fighting in Benghazi, which flared up on Friday, has left 75 people dead and 141 injured.
On Sunday, militants said to be loyal to Haftar attacked parliament headquarters in capital Tripoli and kidnapped several lawmakers.
Libyan authorities have struggled to restore law and order since Gaddafi's ouster and death in 2011 amid the continued refusal of armed militias – which helped overthrow the late leader – to give up their weapons.
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