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The universal and ineluctable consequence of this crusade to secure the city is the destruction of accessible public space. The contemporary opprobrium attached to the term ‘street person’ is itself a harrowing index of the devaluation of public spaces.
To reduce contact with untouchables, urban redevelopment has converted once vital pedestrian streets into traffic sewers and transformed public parks into temporary receptacles for the homeless and wretched.
The American city, as many critics have recognised, is being systematically turned inside out- or rather outside in. The valorized spaces of the new megastructures and supermalls are concentrated in the centre, street frontage is denuded, public activity is sorted into strictly functional compartments, and circulation is internalized in corridors under the gaze of private police.
Mike Davis City of Quartz
To reduce contact with untouchables, urban redevelopment has converted once vital pedestrian streets into traffic sewers and transformed public parks into temporary receptacles for the homeless and wretched.
The American city, as many critics have recognised, is being systematically turned inside out- or rather outside in. The valorized spaces of the new megastructures and supermalls are concentrated in the centre, street frontage is denuded, public activity is sorted into strictly functional compartments, and circulation is internalized in corridors under the gaze of private police.
Mike Davis City of Quartz
Pil and Galia KollectivOur artwork is primarily film, video and performance based, though we also make collages and sculptures / installations related to our films. It explores utopian discourses of the twentieth century and the way they operate in the context of a changing landscape of creative work and instr
umentalised leisure. We are interested in the role of politics and commerce in relation to the paradigms of modernism and the avant garde. We often use choreographed movement and ritual as both an aesthetic and a thematic dimension. Reading dada and the Bauhaus backwards through punk and new wave to rescue the humour and critical vitality that have been subsumed by the canonisation and commodification of modernism, we find new uses for the failed utopias of the past.
umentalised leisure. We are interested in the role of politics and commerce in relation to the paradigms of modernism and the avant garde. We often use choreographed movement and ritual as both an aesthetic and a thematic dimension. Reading dada and the Bauhaus backwards through punk and new wave to rescue the humour and critical vitality that have been subsumed by the canonisation and commodification of modernism, we find new uses for the failed utopias of the past.THE BIG ISSUE website: www.bigissue.co.uk/
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