The New Rules of Public Art (NOW), or The New Situations of Situations
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. Situations are, of course, careful to avoid these perspectives...