Co-Editor of Special Edition Forum Kritika on Radical Cultural Responses to Urban Democracy , Kritika Kultura, Online, International, Peer Reviewed Journal, No. 30/31

Malone, Niamh and Merriman, Victor (2018) Co-Editor of Special Edition Forum Kritika on Radical Cultural Responses to Urban Democracy , Kritika Kultura, Online, International, Peer Reviewed Journal, No. 30/31. Kritika Kultura (30.31). p. 228. ISSN 2094 6937

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Abstract

The special edition attempts to communicate a sense of the articles and artist pages published in this Forum Kritika on Radical Cultural Responses to Crises in Urban Democracy, in the context of a symposium during which some of them were first argued. The contributors theorize relationships between art and protest, and the nature of performance, as well as critiquing interventionist performance projects, among dispatches from the front line of performance as public engagement. It also seeks to convey a sense of how culture—and especially performance—interacts, in Britain, with Project Austerity (2010-present). As culture and cultural workers, respond to neoliberalization, they are also increasingly shaped by its project of economizing public institutions, democratic processes, social services, and—some would argue—every social encounter. Influencing this critique is the mythos of Athens, as—across Europe—forces re-shape the democratic urban architecture which it has legitimised since the republican revolutions of the eighteenth century. It is in this context that artists struggle to conceptualize and enact a present public role.

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Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Creative and Performing Arts
Depositing User:	Niamh Malone
Date Deposited:	30 May 2018 13:19
Last Modified:	30 May 2018 13:19
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/2478

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