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Public Art, Public Space and the Public
Public Art, Public Space and the Public
The concept of public art is a contested and debated term that evokes passionate views about what form it should or possibly will take and who has the right to make, appreciate and participate in its development.
In a surprising rebuttal to the self declared conquest of hermetically sealed shopping centres as the new public space, strip shops, parklands, streets and city centres are being reclaimed from the urban refuge as decentralisation and urban consolidation plans are revisited.
An approach to public art and the re-emergence of public space is the constructive interpretation of development: a fluid response to a new form of art making whose platform and medium is public space. This is a broad concept based on cross disciplinary and cross cultural practice that, through the process, develops a different understanding of public space and extends the notion of art and art making. The process may result in nothing more than a conversation between groups of formerly anonymous people. It may however, result in a fundamental shift in the notion of public space and how it could be developed.(...)
Find the complete article with images at http://www.architectsforpeace.org/editorial/editorialaugust2004.pdf
The concept of public art is a contested and debated term that evokes passionate views about what form it should or possibly will take and who has the right to make, appreciate and participate in its development.
In a surprising rebuttal to the self declared conquest of hermetically sealed shopping centres as the new public space, strip shops, parklands, streets and city centres are being reclaimed from the urban refuge as decentralisation and urban consolidation plans are revisited.
An approach to public art and the re-emergence of public space is the constructive interpretation of development: a fluid response to a new form of art making whose platform and medium is public space. This is a broad concept based on cross disciplinary and cross cultural practice that, through the process, develops a different understanding of public space and extends the notion of art and art making. The process may result in nothing more than a conversation between groups of formerly anonymous people. It may however, result in a fundamental shift in the notion of public space and how it could be developed.(...)
Find the complete article with images at http://www.architectsforpeace.org/editorial/editorialaugust2004.pdf
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I think its a great move that there is an appreciation within regional governments to promote public art. There are many constituents who could tell you how best to spend that cash, but in many ways, it's a flawed argument. Certainly there needs to be an understanding of how public art and streetscape revitalisation influences our behaviour in the public arena. Not only does this have spin-off effects on the commercial viability of a centre, but it changes our patterns and attitudes to public space from one of consuming, to one of lounging, talking, playing, observing... There's no better way to spend cash than investing in 'our' space.
It's not to say 'public' art has any obligation to be accessible to the taxpayer. The role of art to me is not to feed the norm, but to educate, challenge and change thought.
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