Double Feature: Counter-Practices of World City Monumentality in the Age of the Anthropocene

Enrico Chinellato; Or Haklai

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14652

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Enrico Chinellato University of Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0836-3602

Enrico Chinellato is an architectural designer and Ph.D. student in Architecture and Design Cultures at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. He holds an MA in Architecture (IUAV University of Venice; Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design of Jerusalem). He co-founded the interdisciplinary collective QUIZEPO (Venice; Tel Aviv) focusing on site-specific, temporary, and participatory art projects. Operating at the intersection of art, architecture, and memory studies, his research centers on the correlation between urban places and methods of artistic spatial practice, investigating their agency in recording, resurfacing, contesting, or projecting place-specific memories.
Or Haklai The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Or Haklai is an architectural designer and a MA student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Cultural Studies program. She holds a B.Arch. in Architecture (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design of Jerusalem; IUAV University of Venice). She co-founded the interdisciplinary collective QUIZEPO (Venice; Tel Aviv) focusing on site-specific, temporary, and participatory artistic projects. Her research interests are centered on interdisciplinary and practice-based approaches across art, architecture, and urban theory. Her current research focuses on the city of Tel Aviv and the Azrieli Centre as the symbol of the shift toward a global city, examining its uses against cities’ symbolism.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/14652

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world city, monumentality, counter-practice, Anthropocene, Tel Aviv

Abstract

This article examines the representational strategies of the world city in the age of the Anthropocene by concentrating the discussion on the notion of monumentality. By introducing the concept of ‘world city monumentality’, which can be defined as the projected anticipatory representation of the city’s desired global future embodied in the skyscraper, we attempt at illuminating on how monumentality is contested by its counter-practices, as significant artistic forms of experiential engagement in public space. To do so, we trace a critique of a specific world city monument, the Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, by presenting our site-specific fictive intervention titled “Double Feature” (2021) as a case study.

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