TY - JOUR

T1 - Urban artistic interventions

T2 - A typology of artistic political actions in the city

AU - Hoop, Marie

AU - Kirchberg, Volker

AU - Kaddar, Merav

AU - Barak, Nir

AU - de-Shalit, Avner

PY - 2022/6/1

Y1 - 2022/6/1

N2 - How do critical artists intervene in urban space, and why? This question is explored in an interurban fieldwork study examining artistic interventions in four cities: Hanover and Hamburg in Germany, and Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem in Israel. Grounded on a plethora of artistic interventions gathered in these cities, the article proposes a typology based on techniques, goals, sociability degrees and relations to urban space. On the one hand, urban artistic interventions vary from a compensatory improvement of social conditions to a highly political and protest-driven irritation of existing urban power structures and processes. On the other, the discourses behind the different modes of urban artistic intervention reveal similarities, bringing recurring concepts of “art in public space” to the forefront and referring to similar lines of reasoning which guide urban artists in their practice. This article extends the existing literature by offering a typology of artistic interventions in urban space, highlighting the critical agency of urban artists.

AB - How do critical artists intervene in urban space, and why? This question is explored in an interurban fieldwork study examining artistic interventions in four cities: Hanover and Hamburg in Germany, and Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Jerusalem in Israel. Grounded on a plethora of artistic interventions gathered in these cities, the article proposes a typology based on techniques, goals, sociability degrees and relations to urban space. On the one hand, urban artistic interventions vary from a compensatory improvement of social conditions to a highly political and protest-driven irritation of existing urban power structures and processes. On the other, the discourses behind the different modes of urban artistic intervention reveal similarities, bringing recurring concepts of “art in public space” to the forefront and referring to similar lines of reasoning which guide urban artists in their practice. This article extends the existing literature by offering a typology of artistic interventions in urban space, highlighting the critical agency of urban artists.

KW - Sociology

KW - Soziologie der Künste

KW - Stadtsoziologie

KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization

KW - Künstler und Stadt

KW - artistic interventions

KW - urban space

KW - typology

KW - agency

KW - socially engaged art

KW - utopia

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126523336&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100449

DO - 10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100449

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 29

JO - City, Culture and Society

JF - City, Culture and Society

SN - 1877-9166

M1 - 100449

ER -