{"id":21107,"date":"2017-04-05T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/en\/?p=21107"},"modified":"2017-04-05T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:48:08","slug":"resource-highlight-making-place-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/resource-highlight-making-place-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource Highlight | Making Place Work: Site-Specific Socially Engaged Art in 21st Century Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21112 alignnone\" alt=\"makingplacework\" src=\"http:\/\/artbridgesblog.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/makingplacework.png\" width=\"452\" height=\"589\" \/>Making Place Work: Site-Specific Socially Engaged Art in 21st Century Toronto<\/strong><br \/>\nYork University | ON | 2014<br \/>\nMaggie Hutcheson<br \/>\n\u00ab\u00a0Site-specific socially engaged art practices are on the rise, particularly in cities. Global migration, global networks and online communication notwithstanding, artists, curators and cultural institutions are increasingly working to \u201cactivate\u201d audiences in and through local encounters premised on shared exploration of specific urban sites. What kinds of social engagement are made possible through these local encounters? And what kinds of engagement are precluded or overlooked when artists try to engage their publics site-specifically? This dissertation considers site-specific socially engaged art in the context of 21st Century Toronto, a city that is rife with multiple historical and ongoing displacements and that is also facing new challenges, including increasing spatial polaraization along class and race lines and considerable political apathy.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Click through the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artbridges.ca\/view_item\/learning_resource\/405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArtBridges Resource Portal<\/a>\u00a0for the full document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Place Work: Site-Specific Socially Engaged Art in 21st Century Toronto York University | ON | 2014 Maggie Hutcheson \u00ab\u00a0Site-specific socially engaged art practices are on the rise, particularly in cities. Global migration, global networks and online communication notwithstanding, artists, curators and cultural institutions are increasingly working to \u201cactivate\u201d audiences<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-more sd-all-trans\" href=\"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/resource-highlight-making-place-work\/#more-21107\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[80,404,1254],"class_list":["post-21107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-resource","tag-thesis","tag-york-university"],"cp_meta_data":{"_edit_last":["1"],"_wpml_media_featured":["1"],"_wpml_media_duplicate":["0"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artbridges.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}