INTERRUPTING THE CITY: ARTISTIC CONSTITUTIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

Edited by Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven
Published by Valiz
October, 2015
English
326 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm
Softcover
ISBN 9789492095022

Price: 94 lei

To interrupt the city (be it digitally or materially) means to arrest the flow or circulation that the city consists of. The tactics by which this interruption is achieved may vary, ranging from a media offensive to riots in the streets, but each and every time these activities affect the public sphere, also make the public sphere. Thus, the public domain is constituted by a combination of social, political and media forces, in a continuous flux, continuously being interrupted. This book attempts to chart the conditions under which one is able to develop a voice in the public sphere, and to ask in what way these conditions could be altered by means of artistic interventions.

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