What is the relation between public art and the public?
What is the purpose of public art?
How does public art shape the public space?
How is public art distinct from related categories, such as street art, socially engaged art, and participatory art?
Call for Registration for The BSA Workshop on the Aesthetics of Public Art (WAPA)
In person and on Zoom.
The aim of this workshop is to foment discussion on the concept of public art and to question the boundaries which demarcate it from similar categories, such as street art, socially engaged art, and participatory art. Understanding what makes public art ‘public’ implies asking about its purpose, its accessibility, and the artistic process by which it is created. As the widespread removal of statues in 2020 shows, another important concern is who constitutes the public for public art – more specifically, the relation between public art and political authority and the way public art contributes to the construction of civic identity and historical memory. This workshop focuses on the aesthetic and artistic conditions which determine the public nature of a given work, with the purpose of consolidating the theoretical framework of current debates.
Link for registration here.
Programme:
10th November 2022
10-10:45 Chong-Ming Lim - Public Art and the Right to the City
11-11:45 Sreelakshmi Santhini Bahuleyan - Constructing Publics: Site-Specific Art and the Visual Representation of Migrant Farming Community in Malabar, India
11:45- 12:30 Sailee Khurjekar - Public Paintings, Curious Children, and Dire Dangers
12:30-2 Lunch
2-2:45 Jakub Stejskal - Monumentality and Its Public
2:45- 3:30 Adam Woodcox - Community, Collaboration, and the Digital Public
3:45-4:30 Vid Simoniti - tbc
11th November 2022
10-10:45 Cristina Parapar - Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Art Interventions: “douce perturbation” in Public Space
11-11:45 Alfred Archer - Public Art that Consigns People to History
11:45- 12:30 Michael Cholbi - How Shall Public Art Memorialize the COVID Dead?
12:30-2 Lunch
2-2:45 Sarah Hegenbert- Collectives as Aesthetic Forms?
2:45-3:30 Carleen De Sözer – Street Gallery
This event is generously funded by the British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) and sponsored by the Centre for Philosophy and Art.
Organized by Beatriz Rodrigues and Colette Olive (both King’s College London).