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The Event Landscape: The Contemporary Encounter of Art and the City

The Event Landscape: The Contemporary Encounter of Art and the City The evenT Landscape The Contemporary Encounter of Art and the City Gavin Kroeber oday, as arts industries venture ever more frequently out of their traditional architectures and into the streets, as urban spaces are converted into venues for art at a fever pitch, we are witnessing the mutual recomposition of art and the city. The ways we experience both art and the city, and the ways we conceive of them, are being transformed. If those of us charged with the care of art and the city (artists, curators, producers, and other art workers; architects, planners, policy makers, and other urbanists) want to engage this reciprocal shift, we will have to do more than simply join the mounting chorus celebrating the obvious facts that the city is being redesigned to accommodate the arts and that the arts are activating the city. There is a larger project in play, visible if we step back to take stock, first, of the particular ways art and the city are becoming intertwined today and, second, of the fact that this intertwining is not new, that art has long been entangled with the city. This essay attempts to trace the contours of the encounter http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art MIT Press

The Event Landscape: The Contemporary Encounter of Art and the City

Kroeber, Gavin
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Volume 37 (2) – May 1, 2015
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MIT Press
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© 2015 Performing Arts Journal, Inc.
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1520-281X
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1537-9477
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10.1162/PAJJ_a_00257
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The evenT Landscape The Contemporary Encounter of Art and the City Gavin Kroeber oday, as arts industries venture ever more frequently out of their traditional architectures and into the streets, as urban spaces are converted into venues for art at a fever pitch, we are witnessing the mutual recomposition of art and the city. The ways we experience both art and the city, and the ways we conceive of them, are being transformed. If those of us charged with the care of art and the city (artists, curators, producers, and other art workers; architects, planners, policy makers, and other urbanists) want to engage this reciprocal shift, we will have to do more than simply join the mounting chorus celebrating the obvious facts that the city is being redesigned to accommodate the arts and that the arts are activating the city. There is a larger project in play, visible if we step back to take stock, first, of the particular ways art and the city are becoming intertwined today and, second, of the fact that this intertwining is not new, that art has long been entangled with the city. This essay attempts to trace the contours of the encounter

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PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press

Published: May 1, 2015

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