Del gesto artístico a la producción de espac io público: creación y acción en la ciudad vivida

Abstract

From the artistic gesture to the production of public space: creation and action in the living city explores the forms of intervention in the public space that relate art to the transformation of contemporary cities. The articles main objective is that of presenting a new genre of creative space practices which, in a critical and collaborative manner, are generated from the field of art and destined for the social construction of the urban landscape. Framed within the research of a thesis project, an attempt is made to cross the borders of the discipline of town planning and the more orthodox architecture to open them to other views and ways of doing things. They discover the transforming potential of artistic practice in the urban environment within the political and social sphere. The traditional idea of public art, a contaminated binomial, is deconstructed in a certain decadent way through the work of three European artists: Loraine Leeson, Marjetica Potrc and Lara Almárcegui. These three, from among many others, appear here as heirs of the Seventies who opened the way to a new artistic genre which involved the incorporation of art into the nearest and most common experiences. Past and recent examples will focus on the details and conditions of contemporary public space. This, in turn, reveals deficiencies and opportunities in ways to make us sociable and to make a city, constructing as a whole, a critique of our daily surroundings.