Editors

Christoph Lindner; Gerard F. Sandoval

Document Type

Chapter

Publication Date

2021

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Publisher Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Book Title

Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City

First page number:

155

Last page number:

175

Abstract

Los Angeles artist Susan Silton has created a type of performance practice based on the ethical imperative of reparative witnessing. Orchestrating deeply researched opportunities for participants to engage in elective communities, her art helps individuals see their roles in historic forms of crisis accountably. Several recent pieces reflect not only on global crises perpetuated by neoliberalism and US political fallout, but on a more specific, if tricky crisis: gentrification. Tracing Silton’s own biographical relation to urban change, as well as the modes in which key works select specific sites of change as text or subtext, this article discusses the roles artists play in gentrification, as well as their potential for attending to its reparative aesthetics.

Keywords

Arts district; Reparative practice; Real estate; Los Angeles; Adaptive reuse

Disciplines

Art Practice | Urban Studies

File Format

pdf

File Size

1296 KB

Language

English

Comments

Book excerpt includes Introduction chapter followed by author's chapter.

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Publisher Citation

Lindner, C. and G.F. Sandoval (eds), Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021

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