December 2016, COLOURING IN CULTURE

Creative Placemaking, Or a Violently Anti-Working-Class Vision of the Urban Pastoral

Posted on December 23, 2016July 10, 2020 by STEPHEN PRITCHARD

Celebrating Jane Jacobs, James Gulliver Hancock, 2016

Creative placemaking, like its predecessors, new public art and collaborative art, is the soft power weapon of choice for many property developers and councils. Artists are increasingly complicit: willingly enlisted as the pioneers, the missionaries and the “foot soldiers” of gentrification; the harbingers of redundancy, displacement, social cleansing, colonialism and racism. … READ MORE

The New Rules of Public Art (NOW), or The New Situations of Situations

Posted on December 12, 2016July 10, 2020 by STEPHEN PRITCHARD

This blog post reflect some draft writing from my PhD research. The focus here is on Situations; particularly some of their publications and projects in the UK and further afield. The central argument I attempt to make is that Situations’ work often directly or indirectly derives from culture- or arts-led regeneration and that this links the organisation to instrumentalism and to gentrification. … READ MORE