Artistic Constitutions of the Public Sphere
ed. by Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen and Bram Ieven ; with contr. by Lieven De Cauter, Tessa Overbeek, Sara Wookey [ ...et al.]
- Author(s)
- Lieven De Cauter, Tessa Overbeek, Sara Wookey, ...et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven
- Publication
- Amsterdam : Valiz, 2015
- Scope
- 327 Pages, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789492095022
How do artistic interventions constitute the public sphere? 'Interrupting the City' looks at how artistic practices and interventions constitute the public sphere. To interrupt the city (be it digitally or materially) means to arrest the flow or circulation of the urban system. The tactics by which this interruption is achieved may vary, ranging from a media offensive to street riots, but each and every time these activities affect the public sphere, they make the public sphere. Thus, the public domain is constituted by a combination of social, political and media forces, in a continual flux that is constantly being interrupted. This book attempts to chart the conditions for developing a voice in the public sphere, and to ask in what way these conditions may be altered by means of artistic interventions. Its contributions delve into the relations between artistic practices and public space, including the urban relations between art and politics.
- Keywords
- critical aesthetics , public space , counter culture , politics , social practice
- Location
- Cabinet 31 - 6: Kunst en engagement
- Remarks
- Incl. Notes, Index ; temporarily located kast 30 - 4 : Tentacular Thinking / Mind Map
