Urban Interventions: Art, Performance and the Politics of Space

城市干预：艺术、表演和空间政治

• 批准号: AH/E004725/1
• 负责人: David Pinder
• 金额: $ 3.28万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE004725%2F1
• 关键词: Urban; Interventions; Art; Performance; Politics

Urban Interventions: Art, Performance and the Politics of SpaceThis project is concerned with artistic practices in cities and examines how selected artists and cultural practitioners critically engage with urban spaces. It is particularly concerned with the role of such artistic 'interventions' in challenging dominant ways of seeing, understanding and using urban spaces, and in imagining and realizing alternatives. Through a focus primarily on cases from London and New York, the project addresses the role of artistic and spatial practices in tracing out other possibilities in cities, whether that is in the context of heightened security and increasing electronic surveillance of public space (in relation to which I ask, how might artistic performances play upon, question or even subvert that process?); or the 'packaging' of cities for touristic and heritage spectacle (how might different memories of cities be presented and performed through strategies of tours and guided walks?); or the remaking of neighbourhoods through urban restructuring and gentrification (how can different stories and accounts of the process find a voice through forms of urban documentation?). The project seeks to contribute to key current debates about cities and urban cultures in geography, cultural studies and related arts, cultural and political fields by developing understandings of how urban public spaces in contemporary capitalist cities are imagined, experienced and the subject of political conflict and struggles. In particular, it traces out practices that embody a struggle for a more vibrant, democratic urban public sphere against those processes that close it down, and as such it seeks to provide glimpses of other possible urban worlds. The project marks a significant development of my earlier research interest in utopian visions of cities, which led to my book Visions of the City (2005). As opposed to utopian visions based on grand plans and blueprints, the new project is concerned with a form of utopianism that seeks inspiration from the streets and everyday urban spaces, and addresses what is possible within present conditions. It is also interested in the potential contribution of a growing dialogue between artists, cultural practitioners and academics around critical analysis of cities to contribute to this endeavour. The research project will be completed through the writing of four closely connected papers. It will also involve dissemination through presentations and talks. While each of these papers takes a different angle and focuses on different artists and events, the papers are bound together by their shared concern with the possibilities contained within cities and urban spaces, and with the potential role of artistic and cultural practices in questioning or challenging powerful interests that influence city life so that something other might emerge. The papers also have many shared reference points, a key one of which is the practice of 'psychogeography'. Initially developed during the 1950s and 1960s by the avant-garde groups, the Letterist and Situationist Internationals, its multiple roots and routes are manifest in three of the papers, and it is the subject of direct investigation and analysis in a fourth.One intended outcome of the research project is to develop connections and collaborative links with colleagues in other disciplines concerned with these research questions, in particular those within performance, urban studies and the visual arts, as well as artists and cultural practitioners working in this field. More specifically, an aim is to contribute and significantly advance the research programme at the new City Centre at Queen Mary, University of London, which is itself seeing to establish connections within and beyond academia, and which has as one of its major research strands 'Art, performance and representation'.

城市干预：艺术，表演和空间政治这个项目关注城市中的艺术实践，并研究选定的艺术家和文化从业者如何批判性地参与城市空间。它特别关注这种艺术“干预”在挑战观看，理解和使用城市空间的主导方式以及想象和实现替代方案方面的作用。通过主要关注伦敦和纽约的案例，该项目探讨了艺术和空间实践在探索城市其他可能性方面的作用，无论是在加强安全和增加对公共空间的电子监控的背景下（关于这一点，我问，艺术表演如何可能影响、质疑甚至颠覆这一过程？）;或者对城市进行旅游和遗产景观的“包装”（如何通过图尔斯和导游步行策略呈现和表现城市的不同记忆？）;或通过城市结构调整和中产阶级化改造街区（如何通过城市文献形式表达对这一进程的不同看法和描述？）。该项目旨在通过发展对当代资本主义城市中城市公共空间的想象，体验以及政治冲突和斗争主题的理解，为当前关于地理，文化研究和相关艺术，文化和政治领域的城市和城市文化的关键辩论做出贡献。特别是，它追溯了实践，体现了一个更有活力，民主的城市公共领域对那些关闭它的过程的斗争，因此，它试图提供其他可能的城市世界的一瞥。这个项目标志着我早期对城市乌托邦愿景的研究兴趣的重大发展，这导致了我的书《城市愿景》（2005）。与基于宏伟计划和蓝图的乌托邦愿景相反，新项目关注的是一种乌托邦形式，从街道和日常城市空间中寻求灵感，并解决当前条件下的可能性。委员会还对艺术家、文化工作者和学术界之间围绕对城市的批判性分析开展越来越多的对话以促进这一努力的潜在贡献感兴趣。该研究项目将通过四个密切相关的论文的写作完成。它还将涉及通过介绍和谈话进行传播。虽然这些论文中的每一篇都采取了不同的角度，关注不同的艺术家和事件，但这些论文都因共同关注城市和城市空间所包含的可能性而结合在一起，并与艺术和文化实践在质疑或挑战影响城市生活的强大利益方面的潜在作用联系在一起，以便其他东西可能出现。这些论文也有许多共同的参考点，其中一个关键点是“心理地理学”的实践。它最初是在20世纪50年代和60年代由先锋派团体Letterist和Situationist International发展起来的，它的多重根源和路线在其中三篇论文中得到了体现，它是第四篇论文中直接调查和分析的主题。研究项目的一个预期成果是与与这些研究问题有关的其他学科的同事建立联系和合作关系，特别是那些在表演，城市研究和视觉艺术，以及艺术家和文化从业者在这一领域的工作。更具体地说，一个目标是促进和显着推进在新的城市中心在玛丽，伦敦大学，这本身就是看到建立学术界内外的连接，并作为其主要研究股之一“艺术，性能和代表性”的研究计划。