http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/ has a lot of detailed case studies of a lot of public art/regeneration projects including documentation of Project Row Houses in Houston and a project in Ijburg, East Amsterdam that maybe we should visit (I didn’t know about this?). I’m not necessarily into the full rhetoric of the site but it’s a good resource. It also has documentation of a project I really would like to talk about more, called Further Up In The Air which was in Liverpool a few years ago. Various flats in a housing tower due to be demolished were occupied by different artists doing projects, in quite strong conversation with the former occupants of the flats. The element of interest for us is the quality of the collaboration, and the fact that it dealt with the specific situation of being in a community that was not going to exist after the demolition. I’ll try and get hold of the catalogue, there were some good projects in it.
January 1, 2009...9:49 pm
Public art projects and regeneration
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