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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.55,Issue15,P.3474-3491

语言

英文

关键字

art in public space; conflict; Global South; Hannah Arendt; urban renewal; DIVIDED CITIES; SOUTH; GENTRIFICATION; REGENERATION; CULTURE; CITY

作者单位

[Aharon-Gutman, Meirav] Technion, Haifa, Israel. Aharon-Gutman, M (reprint author), Technion, Architecture & Town Planning, Kiryat Hatech, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel. E-Mail: meiravag@technion.ac.il

摘要

Based on fieldwork conducted in a seam line neighbourhood in Jerusalem, this article contributes to the ongoing discourse on art in public spaces as a generator of urban renewal. The article suggests that re-thinking this convention from a Global South perspective would enable us to critically discuss the relation between art in public spaces and urban renewal. This research shows how site-specific intervention art activities had produced a conflict that consequently led to the expulsion of the artists group from the neighbourhood. Three theoretical concepts from Hannah Arendt's work were used in the analysis of the results: political/social, action and public realm. This article claims that the artists' group has aspired to be simultaneously social' and political': by means of a political act they wished to create a dialogue' and a meeting point' with Palestinians residing in East Musrara. Every attempt to be simultaneously political and social was perceived by the neighbourhood representatives as deceitful and threatening.