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The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate

  • Explores how artists, theorists and arts organizations have an attentive history of revealing and reacting to the displacement of peoples

  • Considers how aesthetic strategies have been utilized to disrupt expected spatial experiences and logic

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Disruptions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Souped Up: Slow Building of Support Networks Through Commensality

      • Marsya Maharani, Geneviève Wallen
      Pages 123-136
    3. Epilogue

      • Noa Bronstein, Gregory Blair
      Pages 177-182
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 183-185

About this book

This book is an anthology of the varied strategies of spatial transgressions and how they have been implemented through the arts as a means to resist, rejuvenate, reclaim, critique or cohabitate. The book is divided into two sections – Displacements and Disruptions. The first section discusses the ramifications of the spatial displacements of bodies, organizations, groups of people and ethnicities, and explores how artists, theorists and arts organizations have an attentive history of revealing and reacting to the displacement of peoples and how their presence or absence radically reconfigures the value, identity, and uses of place. In the second section, each author considers how aesthetic strategies have been utilized to disrupt expected spatial experiences and logic. Many of these strategies form radical alternative methodologies that include transgressions, geographies of resistance, and psychogeographies. These spatial performances of disruption set into motion a critical exchange between the subject, space and materiality, in which ideology and experience are both produced/spatialized and deconstructed/destabilized.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Evansville, USA

    Gregory Blair

  • Toronto, Canada

    Noa Bronstein

About the editors

Gregory Blair is an artist, writer and educator based in Evansville, Indiana. His research incorporates interdisciplinary art practices, mobility studies, cultural geography, environmental aesthetics, continental philosophy, ecocriticism, and philosophies of place. His first book, Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. 

Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her practice mainly focuses on investigating issues concerning place and space-making, and thinking through how artists disrupt and subvert systems, including those registering across social, political, and economic structures. Noa has held several positions in the arts, including Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, inaugural Senior Curator at the Small Arms Inspection Building, and Project Manager at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Noa is currently the Executive Director of Gallery TPW.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts

  • Editors: Gregory Blair, Noa Bronstein

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55389-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55388-3Published: 06 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55391-3Published: 07 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55389-0Published: 05 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 185

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Relations Theory, Human Geography, Aesthetics

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