Title :

Art as a new urban norm: Between normalization of the City through art and normalization of art through the City in Montreal and Johannesburg

Author(s) :

Guinard, Pauline [Auteur]
Laboratoire Architecture, Ville, Urbanisme, Environnement [LAVUE]
Margier, Antonin [Auteur]
Université de Rennes 2 [UR2]
Espaces et Sociétés [ESO]

Journal title :

Cities

Pages :

13 - 20

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2018-07

ISSN :

0264-2751

English keyword(s) :

Art
Montreal
Urban norm
Public spaces
Johannesburg

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Géographie
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

English abstract : [en]

In a context of increased urban competition, art and culture are often used by cities worldwide as tools to improve their image and make urban spaces attractive. In that process, art is – as we will argue – becoming a new ...
Show more >In a context of increased urban competition, art and culture are often used by cities worldwide as tools to improve their image and make urban spaces attractive. In that process, art is – as we will argue – becoming a new urban norm, which is normalizing not only urban space and experience, but also art itself. By contributing to the pacification or securization of public spaces, art could encourage some behaviors or, on the contrary, discourage others. Reversely, this normative dimension of urban art could impact art itself, especially by redefining the limit between artistic forms that are either inclusive or exclusive, dominant or subversive. Through examples found during PhD fieldwork in Montreal and Johannesburg, we will demonstrate that this normalization of the city through art and of art through the city takes place in various urban contexts, that it questions the distinction between Northern and Southern cities, and the definition of a (global) city itself.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Territoires, Villes, Environnement & Société (TVES) - ULR 4477

Source :

Harvested from HAL