Interrupting the city : artistic constitutions of the public sphere / Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven (eds.).

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Introducton: a public sphere, for example / Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven -- Part 1: Artistic Imagination of the city -- Voices of finance: the Joris Luyendijk Banking blog and Tom Lanoye's novel Gelukkige slaven / Sander Bax -- Cities & signs : rethuinking Calvino's urban imaginaries / Odile Heynders -- How to dare, interrupt, intrude, fictionalize and scream for a public : an interview with Sarah Vanhee / Bojana Cvejić -- ActionScape / Rennie Tang & Sara Wookey -- Part 2: The city and its politics -- Can we tolerate it? notes on the public sphere after the end of Liberalism / Bram Ieven -- The machinic-dividual city / Gerald Raunig -- The political art of urban insurgency / Erik Swyngedouw -- Part 3: Struggle with the city -- Poet interrupted: Bart Moeyaert as Antwerp's poet lauteate (2006-2007) / Vanessa Joosen -- Embodying the possibilities of public space - Circus Amok: an interview with Jennifer Miller / Tessa Overbeek -- Mysteries of the creative class, or, I have seen the enemy and they is us / Gregory Sholette -- Part 4: Common public space -- Of cities roaring / Geertjan de Vugt -- Commonplaces on the (spatial) commons / Lieven de Cauter -- Peforming the common city: on the crossroads of art, politics and public life / Pascal Gielen.

Interrupting the City explores the ways in which artistic practices and interventions intersect with the public sphere. The tactics by which an intervention is achieved may vary, ranging from a media offensive to a riot in the streets, but each time these activities affect the flow or circulation of urban public space, they also reconstitute it. Interrupting the City, edited by Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen and Bram Ieven, proposes the public sphere as a network of social, political and economic forces in constant flux, and attempts to chart the conditions under which art can contribute to or interrupt this process of the construction of public space. This volume brings together a range of internationally renowned theorists and artists to consider the relations between artistic activity and public space, and proposes how artists can develop their voices in the public sphere.