Cartiere, Cameron, and Martin Zebracki, eds. <i>The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space and Social Inclusion</i>

Catterall, Kate

doi:10.1080/21502552.2018.1430298

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“…As public art has predominantly been investigated with regards to its revitalizing socio-economic effects in processes of culture-led urban development and regeneration (Cartiere and Zebracki 2016;Hall and Robertson 2001;Mathews 2010;Pollock and Sharp 2007;Zebracki 2012), public artworks are often functionalized to facilitate policy objectives such as social cohesion, the celebration of diversity, spurring of urban growth and pacifier against displacement (Chang 2019;Sachs Olson 2017). In that sense, public art is often geared towards constructing consensus between heterogeneous urban communities (Miles 1997).…”

Section: Pushing Public Art Beyond Consensusmentioning

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Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley

Landau

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The article unpacks the multiple political implications of commissioned murals in contested urban space. It examines public artwork in Hogan’s Alley, a historically Black neighborhood in Vancouver, BC, situated on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Coast Salish Nations. Drawing from ethnographic field research and semi-structured interviews with local artists, policymakers and community activists, I read the mural Remember Hogan’s Alleny (2019), covering the sidewall of a subsidized housing project, as a contested public space. In this conflictual space, multiple pasts appear, disappear and reappear, oscillating between the celebration of Black culture, food and entertainment and the systematic displacement of Black residents and businesses. By contrasting diverging rationales, expectations and dreams regarding murals’ contributions to memory-making and cultural reconciliation, I trace where and how conflicts about public art inscribe themselves into the urban cultural fabric. The article intervenes into the predominantly ‘positive’ discussion of sanctioned public art to develop a more conflict-attuned understanding of artworks placed in the public realm. It deploys a framework of hauntology to discuss the appearance of ghosts invited into the public realm via official art commissions. These ghosts, becoming visible on urban walls via acts of placemaking, conjure memories of spatial displacement and racial discrimination, as well as stories of community care and healing. In sum, the article argues that the analytic of ghosts assists to foster an understanding of public art as always-already conflictual, thus inviting to stay with conflicts of belonging and memory, rather than to suppress them or shy away. By reflecting on what public art does politically – unpacking diverse narratives of the past that continue to mark present racial inequalities – the article contributes to sketching a conflict-oriented understanding of public space that is needed in cities wounded by racism and displacement.

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Section: Pushing Public Art Beyond Consensusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley

Landau

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Art is an expression that generates affect" (Ibid, p118). Although academics have not been kind to the community arts over the past two decades, socially engaged art practices have been evolving widely in different communities "building a critical mass in terms and its tangible real-world thinkers and educators" (Cartiere and Zebracki, 2016). Community arts programseven if it was not intended to be -has been a channel to address social issues, at this point it would be helpful to have a closer look into art projects that managed to actively engage the community, for example; (Towns 2002).…”

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Community-Engaged Arts as a Tool For Social Change. A Case Study on the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

Mohammed

2021

International Design Journal

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Community-based art. Art for Social Change. Creative Activism. Community murals. Site-specific art Public Art. Art and civic engagement.This Study Aims to illuminate the correlation between civic engagement and community-engaged arts. As art and politics often correlate to each other, in the early 1990's "new genre public art" has developed out of the previous traditional public art movements with decoration purposes (Lacy, 1995). These New genres have functioned as social intervention channels. this essay will carry out the study of the correlation between the new socio-political phenomenon and public art practices as: (participatory art, dialogic art, community-based art, activist art). Using Art-based research methodology the researcher intends to investigate contemporary community-based art practices and its contribution to local communities' development. A case study on the city of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program is carried out in this research.

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Cartiere, Cameron, and Martin Zebracki, eds. The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space and Social Inclusion

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Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley

Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley

Community-Engaged Arts as a Tool For Social Change. A Case Study on the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program

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