Re-Imagining the City

Kristen Sharp is an academic, writer and curator. She is Associate Dean of Discipline, Art, in the School of Art, RMIT University. Her research focuses on contemporary art and urban space, contemporary Asian art, sound art and collaborative art practices in transnational projects. She is the co-author of Screen Ecologies: Art, Media and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region (with L. Hjorth, S. Pink and L. Williams, MIT Press, 2016) and co-leader of the Migration + Mobilities research area for the contemporary art and social transformation (CAST) research group at RMIT University.Contact: School of Art, RMIT University, 124 LaTrobe Street, Melbourne 3000, Australia.Elizabeth M. Grierson is professor of art and philosophy at RMIT University, Australia, and editor of the academic journal ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communications, Cultural & Policy Studies. She is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the United Kingdom and an adjunct professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is also an Australian Legal Practitioner, Barrister, and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.

• Foreword – Manfred B. StegerChapter 1: Situating Art, Urban Space and Globalization – Elizabeth Grierson and Kristen SharpSection I: Art and Urban PlaceChapter 2: Art and Culture: The global turn – Malcolm Miles Chapter 3: Catalysing our Cities: Architecture as the new alchemy for creative enterprise – Tom Barker Chapter 4: The Place of the Urban: Intersections between mobile and game cultures – Larissa Hjorth Section II: Transforming Spaces and Experiences of the City Chapter 5: Driving the Sonic City – Kristen Sharp Chapter 6: ‘The Vacant Hotel’: Site-specific public art and the experience of driving the semi-privatized geographies of Melbourne’s EastLink Tollway – Ashley PerryChapter 7: The Transient City: The city as urbaness – Maggie McCormick Section III: Exchange and TransactionChapter 8: ‘The Liquid Continent’: Globalization, urbanization, contemporary Pacific art and Australia – Pamela ZeplinChapter 9: Abdul Abdullah: Art, marginality and identity – Leslie MorganChapter 10: The Visible Hand: An urban accord for outsourced craft – Kevin Murray Section IV: Interventions in Public Space Chapter 11: Border Memorials: When the local rejects the global – SueAnne WareChapter 12: Encountering the Elephant Parade: Intersections of aesthetics, ecology and economy – Elizabeth GriersonChapter 13: Re-imagining Dutch Urban Life: The Blue House in Amsterdam – Zara StanhopeConclusionChapter 14: Cities as Limitless Spaces of Simultaneity and Paradox – Chris Hudson