Negotiating spatial politics
Site-responsive urban art images in mainland China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4991979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Minna Valjakka (0000-0002-4331-040X, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-281 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | China Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-203X • E-ISSN: 1741-590X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0920203x15589535 |
| OpenAlex | W2307980971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 24 |
Since the mid-1990s, growing urbanization has led to the rise of new forms, needs and sites for visual self-expression in urban public space in mainland China. Drawing on periods of intensive fieldwork in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong since 2006, this article suggests a new approach for examining the spatial politics of urban art images in China based on the concept of 'site responsiveness'. Inspired by discussions on site-specific and site-oriented art and street art, this article aims to clarify the importance of both aesthetic analysis and comparative contextualization of urban art images in relation to (1) the reciprocal relationship between the urban art images and the site, and (2) international developments in the discourses on 'graffiti' and 'street art'. This dual approach provides a starting point for a comprehensive sociospatial interpretation of the visual phenomenon in China while challenging the unproblematized use of the concept of graffiti in existing studies and offering two umbrella concepts - urban art images and creator of urban art images - to facilitate more nuanced research. By examining actions of visual self-expression at the grass-roots level, this article brings attention to an often neglected but crucial perspective to discussions of the city as a living organism and to the interrelations between art and urbanization
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Beijing · China · Contextualization · Economic growth · Epistemology · Geography · Graffiti · Interpretation (philosophy · Mainland China · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urban planning · Urbanization · Visual arts · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Urban and sociocultural dynamics · Urban Studies
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Evoking Nostalgia
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Running and Reading Remnant Danwei Walls in China's Postsocialist City
Writing on the Wall
Urban revolution and Chinese contemporary art
Artistic interventions in contemporary China
Migrant workers and the imaging of human infrastructure in Chinese contemporary art
Urbanized interfaces
One Place after Another
Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art
Space and Public
Created in China
The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing
Cities Surround The Countryside
Aspects of Urbanization in China
Street art, public city
Graffiti in China – Chinese Graffiti
Who is occupying wall and street
The production of space
Advertising the Chinese dream
Urban revolution and Chinese contemporary art
Walls of Dialogue in the Chinese Space
Migrant workers and the imaging of human infrastructure in Chinese contemporary art
Zhang Dali's Dialogue
Creative Industries in China
The Domain of Images
Painting with permission
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |