[ecrea] CFP: ‘Artist strategies and methods of resistance in the regenerated city’

*Call for papers for the 7th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Stockholm 
University, June 18th - 21st 2017 *

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*Session: ‘Artist strategies and methods of resistance in the 
regenerated city’*

*Convener*

Dr Pat Naldi (Art Programme, Central Saint Martins, University of the 
Arts London)

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*Session theme:*

Urbanism as process and product is the source and profit of capital 
production. Hence the city, its urban fabric and socio-spatial structure 
manifest and correlate with its economy. Artists and art have long been 
at the centre of the economic transformation of the city with a 
well-established relationship between the arts sector and the private 
(commercial) sector of urban regeneration and gentrification. This 
varies from the temporary inhabitation of post-industrial urban areas 
and buildings under disrepair, as studios, galleries, and sites for 
temporary art works, through to the flagship tenant status of 
educational, gallery and museum institutions, and the commissioning of 
public artworks within urban redevelopment and regeneration projects. 
Their presence builds a positive image of a cultural ‘creative hub’ that 
both attracts a different social set and adds value to the area. This 
added cultural and commercial capital value asset for the developers 
render art and artists as complicit agents in social and economic 
injustices and inequalities effected through regeneration and 
gentrification processes. Their actions valorise the decanting of 
low-income residents and independent businesses, and help to striate the 
socio-economic make up of urban areas from which they eventually also 
end up excluded.

This panel seeks to bring together researchers from across disciplines 
such as artists, geographers, curators, spatial and socio-economic 
theorists and practitioners to question and propose how might art, and 
artists contribute as agents for positive long-term socio-political 
change? One in which their actions and artworks do not give credence to 
developer and governmental neoliberal regeneration and gentrification 
strategies. Contributions are invited in the form of papers, 
presentations, and performances/readings that challenge the current 
status quo and propose alternate strategies, and methods of resistance 
and action for artists and art in the regenerated city.


*Please submit paper *abstracts by midnight (GMT) 15 December ***to:*

(p.naldi /at/ csm.arts.ac.uk)

Abstracts should have a maximum length of 250 words, in plain text, and 
be saved in Word format. Please adhere to the following format:

  * Name of the session
  * Title of the paper (lowercase letters)
  * Author’s name and e-mail
  * Author’s institutional affiliation
  * Body of the paper abstract

Paper authors will be notified by 15 January and accepted abstracts will 
be published on the conference webpage. Session conveners will organize 
their sessions and coordinate the submission of papers and/or presentations.

Conference website: http://www.humangeo.su.se/english/ngm-2017

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