REBECCA HACKEMANN contact information (note that for security reasons this is not a clickable e-mail link, simply copy it):

m e (at) r e b e c c a h a c k e m a n n . c o m
 
 
Publications

EVERYONE: TAKE A SURVEY ON PUBLIC ART

Survey for Public Art in NYC

 

ARTISTS - TAKE A SURVEY ON YORU PRACTICE

             ARTISTS PRACTICE SURVEY

 

PRACTICE BASED PHD CANDIDATES IN ART OR ARTISTS WITH PHD'S

             ARTISTS WITH PHD'S SURVEY

 

 

 

CURRENT PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH

TITLE

Not on The Plaza: Critical Strategies and Psychoanalytic Theory for Permanent Public Art in New York

My doctoral project will conduct practice based interdisciplinary research within the fields of public art and urban design in New York, in order to develop new paradigms for public art practice. There is a deficit of research-oriented approaches to permanent public art (1)in the US; this I claim, has lead to a disconnect between artists’ intentions, the processes that lead to public art, and residential communities that live in the vicinity of public art. My key research questions are:


• What new roles can permanent public art play in relation to it’s own history, that of art and architecture, public space and residents?


• How are permanent public art works perceived by multiple “publics”?


• How can a psychoanalytic approach deliver new readings and approaches for public art as a coherent field?

A psychoanalytic reading of public art practice will inform a deeper, new and rigorous analysis at the nexus of architecture, urban planning, public art, space and spectatorship.

 

Here is a recent presentation at the research group "The Practice Exchange" (scroll down to Jan 11th, 2012).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Note here that I am not focusing on temporary work, such as social practice art in the public realm that is primarily presented in the form of documentation later on. Rather, the work must exist in the public sphere for a significant amount of time and be encountered there.