Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

ISBN-13: 9781138343399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 206 str.

Cecilie Sachs Olsen

Opis

This book explores alternative understandings of socially-engaged art projects in the age of neoliberal urbanism. It does so by questioning the very nature of these environments and the proposing alternative productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of ‘the urban’ as a set of existing and static structures, institutions, and flows. The book adopts a practice-led approach to range of case studies from across Europe and North America, asking how artists reconcile the creation of critically-informed transformative art practice with the increasingly limited constraints placed on public art by the dominance of commercial funding and neoliberal frameworks. The author points to the transcendence of a neoliberal urban through alternative productions of space, drawing upon a Lefebvrian framework of spatial practice and ‘lived space’, using a structuralist method to challenge neoliberal structures.

Spis treści

Introduction: Producing Urban Imaginaries in Socially Engaged Art  PART I Problematizing Socially Engaged Art  1. Criticisms, Reimaginings, Collaborations  2. Resistance, Participation, Politics  PART II Meaning-Making: The Reciprocal Relation Between the Material Environment and Social Practices  3. Promoting New Ways of Being in the City  4. Mobilizing Communities  PART III Participatory Processes: Critically Engaging with Urban Space in Socially Engaged Art  5. Contesting the City as a Natural Urban Order  6. (Re)inventing Urban Democratic Practices  PART IV Representative Frames: Constituting Identities and Issues in Socially Engaged Art  7. stadtARCHIV: The Invited Space and the Logic of the Institution  8. Montopia: Collaborative Inventions and Antagonistic Encounters  9. St. Clement’s Utopolis: A Crisis of Identity – Art or Social Work?  Conclusion: Creating a New Course for Socially Engaged Art Within the Neoliberal City 

O autorze

Cecilie Sachs Olsen is a British Academy Post Doctoral Researcher at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.