Ren / Luger Art and the City

Worlding the Discussion through a Critical Artscape
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-30301-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

Artistic practices have long been disturbing the relationships between art and space. They have challenged the boundaries of performer/spectator, of public/private, introduced intervention and installation, ephemerality and performance, and constantly sought out new modes of distressing expectations about what is construed as art. But when we expand the world in which we look at art, how does this change our understanding of critical artistic practice?

This book presents a global perspective on the relationship between art and the city. International and leading scholars and artists themselves present critical theory and practice of contemporary art as a politicised force. It extends thinking on contemporary arts practices in the urban and political context of protest and social resilience and offers the prism of a ‘critical artscape’ in which to view the urgent interaction of arts and the urban politic. The global appeal of the book is established through the general topic as well as the specific chapters, which are geographically, socially, politically and professionally varied. Contributing authors come from many different institutional and anti-institutional perspectives from across the world.

This will be valuable reading for those interested in cultural geography, urban geography and urban culture, as well as contemporary art theorists, practitioners and policymakers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ren, Julie

Luger, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Harriet Hawkins

Introduction

Julie Ren

1. How Colour Replaces Fear

Yazmany Arboleda and Nabila Alibhai

2. The Collective Moment: Post-Museum's Rowell Road Period

Jennifer Teo and Woon Tien Wei

3. Art/Movement as a Public Platform: Artistic Creations in the Sunflower Movement and the Umbrella Movement

Pei-yi Lu and Phoebe Wong

4. Ghana ThinkTank: Mobility, Reversal and Cultural Differences

Gretchen Coombs

5. Diversifying the Stage of Policymaking - A New Policy Network in Berlin's Cultural Field

Friederike Landau

6. Alternative Art Schools in London: Contested Space and the Emergence of New Modes of Learning in Practice

Silvie Jacobi

7. RENT Poet: Commodity, Respectability and Scam in Los Angeles

Brian Sonia-Wallace

8. Artist Activism as Essential Threshold from the 'Peaceful, Rational, Non-violence' Demonstrations towards Revolution: Social Actions in Hong Kong in the pre-Umbrella Movement Era

Liza Kam

9. The Climate Games: Space, Politics and Resistance at the COP21 Paris

Ben Parry

10. New Genre Public Commission? The Subversive Dimensions of Public Art in post-Fordist Capitalism

Thierry Maeder, Mischa Piraud and Luca Pattaroni

11. Unpacking Public Places in Gothenburg - The Event City: Becoming a Cannibal

Marika Hedemyr

12. Our House in the Middle of the Street

Nela Milic

13. Crowd Creations: Interpreting Occupy Art in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement

Sampson Wong

14. #Beirut, Urbanism and I: Framing the City through Space, Identity and Conflict

Luisa Bravo

Conclusion

Jason Luger

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Ren is a Fellow in Human Geography at the London School of Economics, UK.

Jason Luger is an urban researcher and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.