Against Cultural Amnesia - Art, Memory and Resistance in 21st Century gentrified Manhattan

下曼哈顿曾经是酷儿和艺术前卫创造力的聚集地，现在是一个高度中产阶级化的目的地社区。本文将探讨自2008年金融危机以来，这一地区发生的中产阶级化，借鉴骗子安娜德尔维的生活，表演艺术家佩妮拱廊的工作和高线的发展。使用混合方法的方法，我将研究艺术和学术探索纽约的中产阶级化，质疑中产阶级化如何以及为什么是一种擦除和强迫遗忘的做法，以及创造性的方法是否成功地抵制这种“文化健忘症”。

Once a site of queer and artistic avant-garde creativity, Lower Manhattan is now a highly gentrifieddestination neighbourhood. This thesis will explore the gentrification that has occurred in this area sincethe 2008 financial crash, drawing on the life of the con-artist Anna Delvey, the work of performanceartist Penny Arcade and the development of the High Line. Using a mixed-methods approach, I willinvestigate art and scholarship exploring New York's gentrification, interrogating how and whygentrification is a practice of erasure and forced forgetfulness and whether creative approaches aresuccessful in resisting this 'cultural amnesia'.