White on Black: Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen
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White on Black : Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen. / Reeh, Henrik.
Bodies in the Street: The Somaesthetics of City Life. ed. / Richard Shusterman. Brill, 2019. p. 60-85 (Studies in Somaesthetics, Vol. 2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - White on Black
T2 - Snow in the City, Skiing in Copenhagen
AU - Reeh, Henrik
N1 - Bidraget rummer seks digitalfotografier ved forfatteren
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Snowfall transforms the city in sensory and practical terms. Sometimes it is even possible to ski in the city. Such an event may promote an intense and altered experience of space, body and the self. All of a sudden, the urban walker is transformed into a skier, as well as the dark cityscape of horizontal surfaces and rectangular forms take on a white appearance and a whole new geometry. Moreover, an altered acoustic but also new forms of social reciprocity come about and soon affect the skier's perception of places and people. In addition to six digital photographs of nightly urban snowscapes by the author, and to a series of personal notes on a skiing experiment in central Copenhagen, this essay addresses the issue of urban snowscape by way of Walter Benjamin’s writings exploring snow in Moscow and Berlin of the early 20th century. Six short chapters – ”State of Exception”, ”The Physics of Snow”, ”New Spaces and Forms”, ”Humans in the Night”, ”A Project of Photography” and ”At Home Again” – add up to a mimetically based reflection on the somaesthetic potentials of urban snow and skiing in contemporary urbanity.
AB - Snowfall transforms the city in sensory and practical terms. Sometimes it is even possible to ski in the city. Such an event may promote an intense and altered experience of space, body and the self. All of a sudden, the urban walker is transformed into a skier, as well as the dark cityscape of horizontal surfaces and rectangular forms take on a white appearance and a whole new geometry. Moreover, an altered acoustic but also new forms of social reciprocity come about and soon affect the skier's perception of places and people. In addition to six digital photographs of nightly urban snowscapes by the author, and to a series of personal notes on a skiing experiment in central Copenhagen, this essay addresses the issue of urban snowscape by way of Walter Benjamin’s writings exploring snow in Moscow and Berlin of the early 20th century. Six short chapters – ”State of Exception”, ”The Physics of Snow”, ”New Spaces and Forms”, ”Humans in the Night”, ”A Project of Photography” and ”At Home Again” – add up to a mimetically based reflection on the somaesthetic potentials of urban snow and skiing in contemporary urbanity.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Urban culture
KW - Walter Benjamin
KW - Roland Barthes
KW - Copenhagen
KW - Moscow
KW - Berlin
KW - Urban snow
KW - Urban skiing
KW - Urbanity
KW - Nighttime light
KW - Photography
KW - Analog photography
KW - Digital photography
KW - Cityscape
KW - Darkness
KW - Color photography
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-90-04-41112-8
T3 - Studies in Somaesthetics
SP - 60
EP - 85
BT - Bodies in the Street
A2 - Shusterman, Richard
PB - Brill
ER -
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