Title & Author:

Back to the city : strategies for informal urban interventions : collaboration between artists and architects / edited by Steffen Lehmann.

Publication:

Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2009.

Description:

262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"This publication documents installations in public space, with a particular focus on Back to the city, an experimental art-architecture exhibition of 18 site-specific installations in Newcastle city centre, held for 4 weeks in January and February 2008"--Page 6
"Published in January 2009 to document the first public art festival Back to the city, which brings the arts to public spaces and laneways"--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Hidden in the urban fabric : art + architecture -- a case study of collaboration in interdisciplinary contexts / Steffen Lehmann -- 15 Critical essays: Lost in space / Angela Philip -- The commodification of urban culture, or : the (re)emergence of Berlin as creative city / Steffen lehmann -- Creating elsewhere / Stephen Garrett -- Projects at play : public works / J. Meejin Yoon -- Creative conditions / Joanne Cys -- Cloud in musée du quai Branly : photography in archiecture / Catherine De Lorenzo, Deborah van der Plaat -- Public space and public art : the metapolitics of aesthetics / Michael J. Ostwald -- Imposed subservience : a cationary note on misuses of Jacques Rancière's taxonomy of art / Steven Fleming -- Public art and audience reception : theatricality and fiction / Sandra Kaji-O'Grady -- The city as event space : defying all calculation / Dorita Hannah -- Beneath the pavement / Kit Messham-Muir -- The living city / Anne Graham -- The second gallery, or squatting by means of the arts / Ludwig Seyfarth -- Place making and place faking : the continuiing presence of cultural ephemera / Michael Cohen -- Regenerating the city / Steffen Lehmann -- Art + Arch map -- 18 installations in Newcastle -- 10 installations in Berlin and Brisbane -- Selection of other submitted proposals -- Appendix.

Summary:

"When empty city lots and abandoned buildings are reclaimed for creative architectural or artistic interventions, interesting things happen. These days, as the postindustrial city continues to morph, and often to atrophy, public space has become an increasingly exciting laboratory for interdisciplinary cooperation among artists, architects, urban planners and landscape architects." "Featuring essays by experts in architecture, urbanism and contemporary culture, Back to the City documents 28 site-specific installations and temporary interventions in Germany and Australia, which offer interesting prospects for the revitalization of empty land, neatly demonstrating the great potential of provisional usage of urban spaces. All projects date from 2002 to 2008, as curated by architect and urban planner Steffen Lehmann, Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, UNESCO Professor for Sustainable Urban Development and the founding director of sL̲ab Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design."--Jacket

ISBN:

9783775723299
3775723293

Subject:

Art and architecture Australia New South Wales Exhibitions.
Art and architecture Germany Berlin Exhibitions.
Urban renewal Australia New South Wales Exhibitions.
Urban renewal Germany Berlin Exhibitions.
Public art Australia New South Wales Exhibitions.
Public art Germany Berlin Exhibitions.
Public spaces Australia New South Wales Exhibitions.
Public spaces Germany Berlin Exhibitions.
Art et architecture Australie Nouvelle-Galles du Sud Expositions.
Art et architecture Allemagne Berlin Expositions.
Rénovation urbaine Australie Nouvelle-Galles du Sud Expositions.
Rénovation urbaine Allemagne Berlin Expositions.
Espaces publics Australie Nouvelle-Galles du Sud Expositions.
Espaces publics Allemagne Berlin Expositions.
Art Intégration à l'architecture Australie Nouvelle-Galles du Sud Expositions.
Art Intégration à l'architecture Allemagne Berlin Expositions.
Art and architecture
Public art
Public spaces
Urban renewal
Stadtgestaltung
Stadtplanung
Stadtsanierung
Städtebau
Architektur
Landschaftsarchitektur
Kunst
Intervention
Öffentlicher Raum
Arte pública.
Germany Berlin
New South Wales
Newcastle
Brisbane
Berlin
Newcastle <Neusüdwales>
Cities and towns - New South Wales - Newcastle
Cities and towns - Germany - Berlin
Urban renewal - New South Wales - Newcastle
Urban renewal - Germany - Berlin
Art and architecture - Australia

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Newcastle.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ausstellung Newcastle <Neusüdwales, 2008>.

Added entries:

Lehmann, Steffen, 1963-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261453
Call No.: BIB 192463
Status: Available