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ON-CURATING.ORG ISSUE 11
This edition of On-Curating.org deals with aspects of the public
sphere, public space, and public art in seven different metropolises
around the world. The point of departure was a competition that was
held for a master plan for public art in the new Europaallee district
in the centre of Zurich, the first such plan in Switzerland. The
urbanist Richard Wolff presents the urban development project
Europaallee, which is currently being built, and traces the around
50-year-long historical development of the project and its changing
politico-economic conditions. With Europaallee, the neoliberal city of
Zurich is bolstering its position as a global city that is competing
with other global cities economically.
What functions does public art claim to fulfil in the given economic
and social context? What understanding of the public sphere underlies
public art? And how does it create room for public activities? We are
interested, taking the globally networked space of Europaallee as a
starting point, in broadening our perspective and putting up for
discussion how artists, curators, urbanists, and cultural studies
experts in other cities think and act. This edition of On-Curating.org
is a mosaic consisting of different perspectives of different authors
from different disciplines from different big cities across the globe.
It creates a picture of what the public sphere, public space, and
public art can mean today against the background of regional
conditions.
The architect Rupali Gupte and the urbanist Prasad Shetty examine
concrete urban formulations and different scopes of the much-discussed
concept ³production of space² in the Indian metropolis Mumbai. The
curator and critic Li Zhenhua investigates the changed public sphere in
China and the possibility of artists to interact with the Chinese
public. The cultural theorist and photographer Jürgen Krusche shows the
different notions and perceptions of the public sphere in the two Asian
metropolises Tokyo and Shanghai. The artist Minerva Cuevas discusses
the ways in which art uses public space in the megalopolis Mexico City.
The cultural studies expert Derya Özkan addresses issues related to
location and neighbourship as well as the possibility to create
(social) space through art in Istanbul. The article is followed by a
conversation between Özkan and the three members of the artist
collective Oda Projesi. Curator Siri Peyer concludes this issue of
On-Curating.org with an interview with Jeanne van Heeswijk, an artist
who lives in Rotterdam and makes different kinds of interventions, of
interactive and participatory projects that often accompany urban
planning processes.

Editors
Institute for Contemporary Art Research IFCAR [6]www.ifcar.ch
Selma Dubach, Christoph Schenker
Editorial Office
Franz Krähenbühl
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