Session:
Public Art and Accountability: Whose Art for Whose City?
Convenors:
Dr. Martin Zebracki
Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
martin.zebracki@wur.nl
Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
martin.zebracki@wur.nl
Dr. Joni Palmer
Geography Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
joni.palmer@colorado.edu
Geography Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
joni.palmer@colorado.edu
Session abstract:
Art in public space is a burgeoning phenomenon in Western cities, and matters from geographical levels of the body to international developments. Public art comprises permanent or temporary artworks, either physical or immaterial, on sites that have open public access and are located outside museums and galleries. This session invites scholars from across all disciplines, who are engaged with multidisciplinary articulations of social and cultural theory, to critically analyse the socio-spatial contexts, experiences and affects of public art.
Public art is a geographical conversation piece that is not uncritical in the least. This session welcomes papers that may engage with one or more of the following critical questions, or related relevant matters. By…
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