Art and the City

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To Henri Lefebvre, the space and “”lived everydayness”” of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold chances of identifiction and realization through frequently imperceptible interactions and practices. Art and the City takes this statement as its cue to examine the role of art against a backdrop of globally rising urban populations, making an allowance for the more up to date performative and relational “”turns”” of art that have sought of their city settings to identify a participating spectator — an implicated citizen.

In exploring how artistic endeavors present themselves as a means wherein to navigate and plot the city for a writing interlocutor, Nicolas Whybrow discusses diverse examples, representing three key brand new modalities of urban arts practice. The first, walking, involves works by Richard Wentworth, Francis Alÿs, Mark Walllinger and others, the second one, play, includes art by Antony Gormley, Mark Quinn and Carsten Höller. The third, cultural memory, Whybrow addresses through the controversial urban holocaust memorial sites of Peter Eisenman’s memorial in Berlin and Rachel Whiteread’s in Vienna.



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