- Title
- The living city
- Creator
- Graham, Anne
- Relation
- Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions: Collaboration Between Artists and Architects p. 124-133
- Relation
- http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00002329&lang=en
- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz Verlag
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper explores a series of works by artists and curators who, for the most part, operate outside of a gallery context, they operate in the city. For them the city is both site and raw material for the development of interactive community-based participatory initiatives. The city becomes a laboratory for social interaction and invention; exhibition becomes process and artworks are mobile, constantly evolving, reflecting a changing political environment. This paper makes certain arguments for, and against, this form of practice. Is the artist/curator promulgating an orthopaedic relationship to the participants? Do these activities provide a platform for the artist to make a spectacle of poverty, difficulty and difference? Or do these works provide the opportunity for collaboratively generated insight, for empathy and reciprocal elucidation? Do these works create a space for a transitional moment which might allow the viewer to come to terms with a metaphor or story which in turn allows time for an acceptance of a difficult reality?
- Subject
- community participation; urban space and viewer relationship; subversive and political models of collaboration; community-based initiatives; homelessness and displacement
- Identifier
- uon:8514
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918107
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783775723299
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