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Deconstructing public artopia: Situating public-art claims within practice.
- Source :
- Geoforum; Sep2010, Vol. 41 Issue 5, p786-795, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Abstract: This paper problematises public artopia, in other words the collection of claims in academic literature concerning the allegedly physical-aesthetic, economic, social, and cultural-symbolic roles of art in urban public space. On the basis of interviews with public-art producers (artists, public officials, investors, and participating residents) in a flagship and a community-art project in Amsterdam, we analyse the situatedness of their public-art claims according to actors’ roles, geographical context, and time. The research suggests that public-art theory and policy suffer from three deficiencies. Theoretical claims about public-art and policy discourse feature, first, a failure to recognise different actors’ perspectives: claims fail to locate situated knowledges that are intrinsically (re)constituted by actors’ roles articulating with one another in time and space. Second is the lack of geographical contextuality: claims do not elaborate appropriately on distinct discourses about art projects’ spatial settings. Third is the lack of temporal perspective. Claims neglect the practice of public-art realisation: that is, the evolution of claims and claim coalitions over the time horizon of the art projects: preparation, implementation, and evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PUBLIC art
COMMUNITY arts projects
PUBLIC spaces
AESTHETICS
ACTORS
GEOGRAPHY
DISCOURSE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Geoforum
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 53407992
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.04.011