Overview

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic practices to question the nature of city environments and the diverse productions of space, moving beyond the reduction of ‘the urban’ as a set of existing and static structures. Adopting a practice-led approach, each chapter discusses case studies from across the world, reflecting on personal experiences as well as the work of other artists. While exposing the increasingly limiting constraints placed on public and socially engaged art by the dominance of commercial funding and neoliberal frameworks, the author stays optimistic about the potential of artistic practices to transcend neoliberal logics through alternative productions of space. Drawing upon a Lefebvrian framework of spatial practice and using a structuralist approach to challenge neoliberal structures, the book draws links between art, resistance, criticism, democracy, and political change. The book concludes by looking at how we might create a new course for socially engaged art within the neoliberal city. It will be of great interest to researchers in urban studies, urban geography, and architecture, as well as students who want to learn more about place-making, visual culture, performance theory, applied practice, and urban culture.

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Author:   Cecilie Sachs Olsen (Royal Holloway University of London,UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138343399

ISBN 10:   1138343390
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   23 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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

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