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No Room to Move
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


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Proud to be Flesh: A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net Editorial content | PTBF
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A few lines on Rio and the Olympics News & Analysis
Submitted by RWILLMSEN on Wednesday, 21 October, 2009 - 15:20
Richard Willmsen

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda wrote in Raízes do Brasil that south of the equator, there is no such thing as sin. When one thinks of Rio de Janeiro, it is this unboundedness that comes to mind: the spontaneous coming together of bodies, whether in pleasure or in pain, a visceral sensuality and brutality, everything in glorious excess: sex, violence, heat and rhythm; excitement and danger; glamourous wealth and spectacular poverty.

subject: Regeneration

Airing Dirty Laundry in Public Art Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 16 July, 2009 - 14:54
Malcolm Miles

On visiting ‘Art in Public Places: the Archive of the Public Art Development Trust', Malcolm Miles evaluates the role of art commissioning agencies in changing the face of public art in the UK

 


Undoing the City, and Ourselves Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 - 13:55
Anthony Iles

A recent festival in Copenhagen dedicated to the cultural politics of the city escalated into a Dionysian street party-cum-riot. With the stakes raised by this sudden, if fleeting, show of force, conceptual discussions around urban activism took on new perspectives – report by Anthony Iles

 

 


Mute Vol 2 #12 - The Creative City in Ruins Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 2 June, 2009 - 16:46

Post-Fordist State planners, developers, and their entrepreneurial service arm have debased the meaning of ‘creativity’ to a shallow pretext for the further looting of cities and public wealth. The cookie-cutter aestheticisation of selective zones of our cities (tourist promenades, waterside public art, creative quarters), is a mere fig leaf covering the acts of enclosure and exclusion that cultural regeneration entails. As the sensibilities of the Creative Class are sensationalised, courted, and monetised, the creative possibilities of the dehumanised majority narrow.


Mersey, Without the Beat Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 - 15:38
Peter Carty

The omission of local, working class voices from Liverpool's City of Culture programme is no less conspicuous in film-maker Terence Davies' plummy elegy, Of Time and the City - writes Peter Carty

 

subject: Film | Regeneration

CG 2014: Formulary for a Skewed Urbanism Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 15 April, 2009 - 12:41
Neil Gray

Using the 2014 Commonwealth Games as a launch pad for further analysis, Neil Gray unmasks the dehumanising and exploitative realities behind the logic of urban regeneration strategies in Glasgow

 

The Games offer our country a chance to advertise to a global audience of over 1 billion people. Glasgow is an incredible city and Scotland is an unforgettable country. The more people who get the chance to see this the more we can grow in the future.

subject: Regeneration

Duck! You Regeneration Sucker Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 11 November, 2008 - 16:31
Neil Gray

David Panos & Anja Kirschner's film, Trail of the Spider, allegorises the public-private land-grab known as ‘urban regeneration' using the form of the Spaghetti Western. This is no shallow postmodern genre surfing, writes Neil Gray, but a passionate re-engagement with history for the sake of the present

 


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