Art as Intervention in Public Space

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Freedland, Barry

Keywords

Art, Public Space, Intervention

Area of Concentration

Visual Arts

Abstract

I have designed this thesis so that I may study and practice subversive and revelatory artistic projects in an effort to reconfigure spatial production as an empowering, playful experience. I contend that art-interventions in public space can effectively function as tools for critical insight, creative appropriation and direct re-aestheticization. For my research I have drawn mostly from histories related to Dada, Situationist International, Minimalism, Earthworks, Conceptualism, and contemporary public art. In addition I have studied the spatial theories of Guy Debord and Henri Lefebvre in order to develop a critical analysis of art in public space. With all this in mind, I have set out to create various public situations through installation art. The projects represent an effort to demonstrate how space may be d�tourned, or subverted in a way that reveals and alters some form of latent significance therein.

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