This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art.
This multidisciplinary companion offers a comprehensive overview of the global arena of public art.
It is organised around four distinct topics: activation, social justice, memory and identity, and ecology, with a final chapter mapping significant works of public and social practice art around the world between 2008 and 2018. The thematic approach brings into view similarities and differences in the recent globalisation of public art practices, while the multidisciplinary emphasis allows for a consideration of the complex outcomes and consequences of such practices, as they engage different disciplines and communities and affect a diversity of audiences beyond the existing 'art world'. The book will highlight an international selection of artist projects that illustrate the themes.
This book will be of interest to scholars in contemporary art, art history, urban studies, and museum studies.
PART I: Introduction
1. Expanding Our Collective Imagination Through
Public Art and Social Practice PART II: Activation
2. Towards a Public of
the Otherwise
3. Japans Rural Art Festivals: The Echigo-Tsumari Paradigm
4. Shaking the Snow Globe and Changing the City
5. Political Art and
Metaphoric Exchange
6. Gardens and Grains: Design Activations in the Public
Realm
7. ACT: Activating City Transience PART III: Social Justice
8. Art as
Protest: The Forced Eviction of the Shijhou and Saowac Urban Indigenous
Tribes in Taiwan
9. Participation Problematises: Together in Violence
10. As
If: An Embodied Account
11. Quiet Gestures, Gift Exchange, and Public
Formations: The Work of D.A.N.C.E. Art Club and Public Share
12. Surviving
Institutionalised Care: Accessibility as Social Practice PART IV: Memory and
Identity
13. Suspended Memory: Ebbs and Flows in Attempts at Memorialising in
Post-Apartheid South Africa
14. The Double Act of Flower Time
15. (In)famous:
Contemporary Lessons from Historys Heroes
16. Public Art, Cultural Identity,
and the River of Oblivion
17. Luandas Emotional Geography
18. The Imaginary
Institution of Place: Notes on Art-led Place-Making as Aesthetic, Social, and
Temporal Engineering
19. The Battle of Public Sculptures: On Three Sculptures
in Hong Kong
20. Public Art, Gentrification, and the Preservation of Black
and BrownUrban Identity: The Case of Little Haiti, Miami an Interview with
Muralist Serge Toussaint PART V: Ecology
21. Digging in the World: Art and
Emergent Forms for Living
22. Landscape, Eco-Arts Practice, and Digital
Technology in the Public Art Realm
23. Changing Space
24. Ensemble Practices
25. Public Art Visions and Possibilities: From the View of a Practising
Artist
26. A Compass Rose for the Anthropocene: New Maps for Old the Art of
Transforming Cultures for Sustainable Futures
27. In the Time of Art with
Policy: The Practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Alongside
Global Environmental Policy Since the 1970s
28. The Harrisons Practice in
the Context of Global Environmental Policy and Politics from the 1960s to
2019: A Timeline PART VI: Mapping Social Change
29. Mapping Art in the Public
Realm 20082018
Cameron Cartiere is a creative practitioner, writer, and researcher focused on public art, urban renewal, and environmental issues. She is co-editor of The Everyday Practice of Public Art (with Martin Zebracki) and The Practice of Public Art (with Shelly Willis).
Leon Tan is an arts, culture, design, and mental health consultant and educator, whose research focuses on cultural expression and the public realm. Dr Tan is an associate professor of design and contemporary arts at Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
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