Theorising Artists as Actors of Urban Change

Murzyn‐Kupisz, Monika; Działek, Jarosław

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“…In general terms, the key aim of artists is often to fill a gap in the approach of policymakers to meeting social challenges. This is well-documented in the literature on art and social innovation (Coenen, 2023), critical urban artists (Kaddar et al, 2020), grassroots artists and political imagination (Zilberstein, 2019), and art activism (Murzyn-Kupisz and Działek, 2017). In our case, however, this phenomenon appears to be associated with the contradictions of a city that simultaneously attracts and rebuffs local residents and emerging artists.…”

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Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

Morea,

Dalla Chiesa

2024

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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This article examines art collectives in Venice that use their artistic and cultural projects to act as public entrepreneurs seeking to improve urban welfare and elicit social change for reasons of societal betterment. These ventures are developed against a backdrop of ongoing socio-economic challenges arising from exploitative tourism in the city. Interviews with some art collective members revealed that: (1) their local rootedness is shaped by issues of gentrification and a search for a city that benefits all; (2) their core values are translated into artistic propositions addressing local demands and institutional voids and (3) their private goals have a public-service background. Our study unveils a unique type of entrepreneur that mediates local demands but has no significant impact at the policy level, thus only scratching the surface of institutional change. This insight contributes to our understanding of artists as public entrepreneurs who, despite their use of activist language channelling public demands, are constrained by the very institutional voids they seek to close.

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Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

Morea,

Dalla Chiesa

2024

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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“…While spatially concentrated buzz might indeed be one of the most important urban resources at the disposal of artists, too much focus on spaces associated with it might lead to a rather narrow, one-sided understanding of artists’ presence in cities. Although some artists’ spatial preferences and choices are in line with expectations regarding a bohemian lifestyle and their contribution to the creation of bohemian spaces either throughout their artistic career or at a certain stage of it (Hracs 2009; Ryberg, Salling, and Soltis 2013), one must acknowledge that on the whole, taking into account the diversity of artistic genres and styles, social and economic status, demographic features, and preferred lifestyles, artists are an extremely heterogeneous professional group (Debroux 2013; Gornostaeva and Campbell 2012; Murzyn-Kupisz and Działek 2017; Wilson 1999; Zhong 2016). Bain (2004:420) therefore remarks on the need to pay attention to what is hidden and less visible in artistic practices in urban space:For the most part, artists tend to work in self-imposed isolation, hidden behind closed studio doors, deliberately choosing to remain invisible and anonymous to others, rather than actively fostering interaction and exchange with other practitioners.…”

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“…In the past few decades, the relationships between artistic practices and urban space have developed into a growing field of interest for geographers, sociologists, economists, and other urban studies scholars (Grésillon 2014; Guinard and Molina 2018; Hawkins 2017; Markusen 2014; Montgomery 2008; Murzyn-Kupisz and Działek 2017; Scott 2010). Among the factors which impact the spatial choices of artists, two motives are most often discussed.…”

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Immersion in Buzz or Withdrawal to Solitude? Artists’ Creative and Social Strategies in Urban Settings

Murzyn‐Kupisz

Działek

2021

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Expectations of bohemian inclinations of artists and their need to immerse in buzz shape the popular image of artistic professionals and often become a point of departure for public policies. The aim of our study, moving beyond preconceived notions on artists’ social and spatial preferences, has been to take a more nuanced look at artists’ attitudes toward buzz and its presence in urban settings. Drawing on the results of a research project conducted in two Polish cities, we have considered to what extent buzz is indeed an important artistic resource in contemporary urban centers and in what locations and types of spaces it is experienced by artists. We have also taken into account artists’ use of the opposite of buzz, that is, silence and solitude, in their urban creative strategies as well as analyzed what factors impact on the diversity of artists’ attitudes, needs, and strategies toward buzz-rich environments. Research findings point to the complexity of artists’ strategies toward buzz which might in turn translate into specific spatial strategies and choices they make within cities.

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“…Badania gentryfikacji w ujęciu popytowym odnoszą się zwykle do stylu życia i konsumpcji oraz cech społeczno-demograficznych gentryfierów (np. zukin 1989;Ley 2003;Murzyn-Kupisz, Szmytkowska 2015;Murzyn-Kupisz, Działek 2017). W drugim -podażowym -podejściu przedmiotem uwagi jest wyjaśnianie uwarunkowań i czynników ekonomicznych gentryfikacji.…”

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Koncepcja gentryfikacji turystycznej i jej współczesne rozumienie

Kowalczyk-Anioł

2018

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Contemporary cities are in a state of constant transformations, which in a great part of the world literature, including Polish, is considered in the context of the concept of gentrification (R. Glass). One of its newer developments is the concept of tourism gentrification proposed in 2005 by K.F. Gotham. This view well interprets today's cities where tourism has grown to the rank of an urban strategy of economic development. In recent years, the effects of urban tourism development have more and more often caused a widespread debate and tourist gentrification has been becoming a constitutive element in it. The insufficient presence of the tourism gentrification problem in Polish literature, especially in the field of urban tourism, was an inspiration to undertake the following research. The aim of the study is to present the concept of tourism gentrification of K.F. Gotham, its evolution and current understanding. The basic method is a review, mainly of English-language literature, and its critical analysis. The conclusions show that this concept is subject to expansion along with the transformation of tourism and cities. There are also differences in the recognition of the studied phenomenon from the perspective of urban studies and studies on tourism. Tourism gentrification becomes an important challenge for the 21st century city. It can be perceived as a simultaneous economic, physical, social and cultural influence exerted by the development of tourism and favourable revitalization processes (triggered by the market forces and actions of authorities), inseparably connected with the displacement of residents caused by tourism. Its effect is the transformation of the urban social space into the space of tourism and entertainment consumption. In extreme cases, tourism gentrification can take the total form-a collective displacement and replacement of residents with temporary users of urban space, unseen in the classical processes of gentrification.

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Theorising Artists as Actors of Urban Change

Cited by 8 publications

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Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

Scratching the surface of urban change: Art collectives as public entrepreneurs

Immersion in Buzz or Withdrawal to Solitude? Artists’ Creative and Social Strategies in Urban Settings

Koncepcja gentryfikacji turystycznej i jej współczesne rozumienie

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