Live Art as Urban Praxis: The Political Aesthetics of the City

Cath Lambert

Sociological Research Online, 2013, vol. 18, issue 3, 130-146

Abstract: This article examines the political possibilities for an aesthetic disruption of urban space and time. Locating the discussion within debates about the neoliberal city, selected art-works from Fierce live art festival in Birmingham, England are used in order to examine how, in a specific and localised context, normative spatial patterns and temporal rhythms can be challenged and subverted. The analysis draws on, and contributes to, a sociological account of the centrality of aesthetics to political and social organisation.

Keywords: City; Urban; Space; Time; Live Art; Political Aesthetics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.2977

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