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Art for Pleasure or for Burden; Visual Art in Public and Semi-Public Spaces
Art for Pleasure or for Burden; Visual Art in Public and Semi-Public Spaces
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC37 Sociology of Arts (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In his book on architecture and sociology in Oslo (1998), the respected Norwegian sociologist and philosopher Dag Østerberg describes how architecture may be experienced as a relief or a burden, depending on the cultural knowledge of the users. In a similar way the dichotomy pleasure and burdenmay describe how people experience visual art in public and semi-public spaces; for example art at work or art placed in public buildings, public parks, public squares, memorial sites, airports, etc. This session calls for papers examining public and semi-public art and how the public art audience experience art in their everyday life, placed in public and semi-public spaces. Does it lead to pleasure, enthusiasm and inspiration? Or is it a burden; is it controversial and create media debates (and in that case, how do they appear), or is it indifferent to most people in the current workplace, building or among people passing by? Papers may describe one or more examples of public or semi-public art, as well as the reactions to the current artworks. (It may also describe social backgrounds of people in the art audience, and connections between cultural capital and their experiences of public art).
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