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Creative Time 2013: Shannon Jackson

This entry was posted in Blog Creative Time - October 2013 and tagged Creative Time urban vitalism on by .

I think it is so interesting to see Creative Time take questions of artistic social engagement to issues of place and creativity in urban and regional planning. In my own work, I find that these streams of thinking and making are strangely un-aligned, often talking past each other. Socially-engaged art expands the parameters of visual and performing art practice. Sometimes this work seeks to explore relationality as such; sometimes this work is connected to a fairly explicit social justice mission.

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Reimagining the Urban: Louise Pubols

This entry was posted in Blog Reimagining the Urban - September 2013 and tagged Reimagining the Urban urban layered landscapes environmental movement San Francisco on by .

How will the baylands be used? And who will use them?

These two questions lie at the heart of the environmental history of the San Francisco Bay, and current debates over its uncertain future. A richly productive estuary, San Francisco is also densely urban. Its landscape is the joint creation of people and nature, locked in a relationship neither can escape from. And if you were to pick one spot around the bay’s shoreline to illustrate just how contentious this relationship has been over time, you’d be hard pressed to find a more richly layered one than the wet and squishy ground underneath this wooden dragon.

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Reimagining the Urban: Irene Chien

This entry was posted in Blog Reimagining the Urban - September 2013 and tagged Reimagining the Urban urban euphamism race on by .

In mainstream US media, “urban” is a pervasive euphemism for black, a way to register but not directly point at African-American culture within the post-racial political paradigm of colorblindness. “Urban music,” “urban fiction,” “urban comedy,” and “urban entertainment” are all ways to identify media made by, featuring, and marketed primarily to African-Americans without directly naming them. “Urban” in this sense gives value to at the same time it disavows the authenticity of black bodies, voices, and “street” experiences that now circulate globally in the form of hip-hop identity and aesthetics.

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City, Arts and Public Spaces: Irene Chien

This entry was posted in Blog City Arts and Public Spaces - June 2013 and tagged urban race City Arts and Public Spaces on by .

In mainstream US media, “urban” is a pervasive euphemism for black, a way to register but not directly point at African-American culture within the post-racial political paradigm of colorblindness. “Urban music,” “urban fiction,” “urban comedy,” and “urban entertainment” are all ways to identify media made by, featuring, and marketed primarily to African-Americans without directly naming them. “Urban” in this sense gives value to at the same time it disavows the authenticity of black bodies, voices, and “street” experiences that now circulate globally in the form of hip-hop identity and aesthetics.

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City, Arts and Public Spaces: Imanuel Schipper

This entry was posted in Blog City Arts and Public Spaces - June 2013 and tagged urban City Arts and Public Spaces co production organization on by .

Especially when we talk about the specificity of city, we think of something, that is somehow close to a lived situation (with a specific narration, setting, dramaturgy, time-structure) than a fixed place. And this situation is somehow more than „only“ the place. It also seems clear to me that we (as visitors or inhabitants of that city) are producing (or at least co-producing) that situation. I would like to strength the importance of „producing meanings“ (and always re-producing new meanings) to our life and our surroundings – but also the importance of knowing that we are constantly in the process of producing meaning.

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