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This book is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate. The book is divided into two sections – Displacements and Disruptions. The first section discusses the ramifications of the spatial displacements of bodies, organizations, groups of people and ethnicities, and explores how artists, theorists and arts organizations have an attentive history of revealing and reacting to the displacement of peoples and how their presence or absence radically reconfigures the value, identity, and uses of place. In the second section, each author considers how aesthetic strategies have been utilized to disrupt expected spatial experiences and logic. Many of these strategies form radical alternative methodologies that include transgressions, geographies of resistance, and psychogeographies. These spatial performances of disruption set into motion a critical exchange between the subject, space and materiality, in which ideology and experience are both produced/spatialized and deconstructed/destabilized.

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Author:   Gregory Blair ,  Noa Bronstein
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030553883

ISBN 10:   3030553884
Pages:   185
Publication Date:   06 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: From Place-Making to Placelessness.- Chapter 3: Tong Yan Gaai: Chinese Heritage within North American Communities.- Chapter 4: Mapping Evictions: Urban Displacement and the Myths of the Sharing Economy.- Chapter 5: The City as Composition: Working through Geographies of Memory, Identity and Belonging.- Chapter 6: Out of Place: Displacements of the Body in Artistic Practice.- Chapter 7: Losing Site: Folded Morphologies of Photography and Brutalist Architecture.- Chapter 8: Spatial Strategies for Working with Text.- Chapter 9: Mapping as Aesthetic Practice.- Chapter 10: Learning from Las Vegas: Steve Wynn and the New Business of Art.​

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Gregory Blair is an artist, writer and educator based in Evansville, Indiana. His research incorporates interdisciplinary art practices, mobility studies, cultural geography, environmental aesthetics, continental philosophy, ecocriticism, and philosophies of place. His first book, Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.  Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her practice mainly focuses on investigating issues concerning place and space-making, and thinking through how artists disrupt and subvert systems, including those registering across social, political, and economic structures. Noa has held several positions in the arts, including Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, inaugural Senior Curator at the Small Arms Inspection Building, and Project Manager at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Noa is currently the Executive Director of Gallery TPW.

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