Outsider: Public Art and the Politics of the English Garden Square
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Pollak, C., Deller, Jeremy and Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd 2015. Outsider: Public Art and the Politics of the English Garden Square. London common-editions.
Authors | Pollak, C., Deller, Jeremy and Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd |
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Abstract | Railings are everywhere in the urban context, they control access to private and public space, and determine the behaviours sanctioned within the areas they enclose. Outsider: Public Art and the Politics of the English Garden Square incites us to take a closer look at railings in the city, and to question their function and use. This book is published as a complement to Catalina Pollak Williamson’s public artwork, Phantom Railings (2012–2014), a project born from the artist’s interest in a particular moment in London’s social history: the removal of railings from garden squares as part of the 1940s war effort. In a comment on the railing-in of public green space within the city, the artist installed sensor-based acoustic devices along the perimeter wall of a London square, to evoke the ghost of an iron fence removed decades previously and never replaced. Outsider features an essay by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, describing the rise of the English garden square and the major debates around their ownership, as well as a conversation between Catalina Pollak Williamson and Jeremy Deller about public art, politics and the idea of ‘play’ as an essential human need. |
Year | 2015 |
Publisher | common-editions |
Publication dates | |
01 Nov 2015 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 24 Feb 2017 |
Place of publication | London |
ISBN | 978-0-9931563-4-2 |
0993156339 | |
Web address (URL) | http://common-editions.com/shop/outsider/ |
Copyright holder | common-editions |
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