Momentography of a failure : Finfinnee, ʼAdis ʼAbabā, Addis Ababa /
Momentography of a failure brings essays, timelines, film, photography and a series of conversations together to deal with Ethiopia's controversial urbanization and the transformative space of the city. It explores the gradual transition of rural-urban space, inner-city migration, emerging and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Amharic Oromo |
| Language Notes: | Text in English, Amharic and Oromo. |
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Berlin :
Archive Books,
[2020].
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| Summary: | Momentography of a failure brings essays, timelines, film, photography and a series of conversations together to deal with Ethiopia's controversial urbanization and the transformative space of the city. It explores the gradual transition of rural-urban space, inner-city migration, emerging and disappearing spaces, and commoning in public space. Momentography of a failure is established at the verge of a hyper-documented world, a hybrid space of digital sociability. While the media production, its reception, and distribution was pluralized by digitization, practices such as "media-sharing" and "citizen journalism" established new conditions for visibility, reinvented the authorial image and promoted yet another dematerialization of authorship. The author camouflages in the cloud(s). Adoption, appropriation and recycling are standardized. Authorship becomes secondary to content and alternative models of authorship are formulated: co-authoring, collaborative creation, interactivity and strategic anonymity, in which cultural activism is reinforced. Momentography of a failure sets out on this point and draws up a multidisciplinary artistic and urban research platform that calls for practicing forms of participatory citizenship through collaborative thinking, creation and reflection. Momentography of a failure is a network of artists, urbanists, writers and activists that stand where aesthetic-artistic practice and sociopolitical activism come together to explore failure, and its various realities, and claim, reaffirm and dream alternatives. |
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| Physical Description: | 287 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783948212407 3948212406 |