Urban Curating: Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist - Paperback

by Elke Krasny (Author)

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary neoliberalism? Accelerated developments heighten classed, gendered, and radicalized urban injustices. Addressing these issues, Urban Curating is concerned with the interconnectedness of economy, ecology, and labor in urban history as well as practices of remembrance. Drawing on the author's work as an urban curator in cities such as Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Vienna, the focus is on caring repair, refusal, and resistance - fighting the spatialization of injustice by building feminist solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries.

Author Biography

Elke Krasny (PhD) born in 1965, is professor for art and education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is a feminist scholar and curator focusing on critical practices in art, architecture, and urbanism connected to activism, uneven development, and remembrance. Her exhibition "Hands-On Urbanism. The Right to Green" was shown at the 2012 Venice Biennale.