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

曼哈顿下城曾经是酷儿和艺术前卫创意的聚集地，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年金融危机以来该地区发生的中产阶级化，借鉴骗子安娜·德尔维（Anna Delvey）的生活、表演艺术家Penny Arcade的作品和高线公园（High Line）的发展。使用混合方法，我将调查艺术和学术，探索纽约的中产阶级化，询问中产阶级化是如何以及为什么是一种抹除和强迫遗忘的实践，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'.