Urban Encounters: Art and the Public (Culture of Cities)

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Public art is at the urban agenda. Given contemporary claims about the importance of creativity to urban prosperity, opportunities for installing or performing art in the city have multiplied. As cities strive to appear culturally dynamic, the stakes of artistic production rise higher than ever. Exploring the interaction between art and the public in Canadian cities, Urban Encounters features writing by artists, architects, curators, anthropologists, geographers, and urban studies specialists. They show how people and places impact the structure and content of public artistic endeavors, what types of urban spaces and socialities are generated through art, and how you can investigate and interpret encounters between art and its viewers in the city. Discussing quite a few art forms, including mobile cinemas, street improvisation, audiovisual investigations, and assembled objects, the contributors treat public artistic endeavors not just as aesthetic installations, but as agents that participate in the social and cultural evolution of cities. The use of original, hands-on approaches, Urban Encounters reveals how art in the urban public space generates encounters that may change into both the city itself and the ways that people relate to it. Contributors include Alison Bain (York University), Robert Bean (NSCAD University), Lawrence Bird (architect, artist), Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria), Brenden Harvey (Dalhousie University), Wes Johnston (artist, curator), Léola Le Blanc (media artist), Brian Lilley (Dalhousie University), Barbara Lounder (NSCAD University), Mary Elizabeth Luka (York University), Sebastian Matthias (HafenCityUniversity), Christof Migone (Western University), Ellen Moffat (media artist), Kim Morgan (NSCAD University), Solomon Nagler (NSCAD University), Martha Radice (Dalhousie University), Nicole Rallis (McMaster University), Susanne Shawyer (Elon University), Shannon Turner (Aarhus University), Laurent Vernet (INRS Urbanisation Culture Société), and Nick Wees (University of Victoria).

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