the performative city - metropolis
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The Performative City - between Cultural Policy and Cultural Planning
Dorte Skot-Hansen Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
University of Copenhagen
Metropolis Lab, Copenhagen 2014
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My agenda today:
Performative City
Cultural Planning
Cultural Policy
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What is the Performative City?
The Performative City is playful, dense, and replete with potentiality. It is characterized by enchanted encounters, unexpected and engaging experiences and spaces where “anything might and even should happen”.
(inspired by Houston, 1994)
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3 Strategies for the Performative City
• Re-ritualization of the city
• Re-enchanting public space
• Re-thinking the relationship between performance/audience/place
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Re-ritualization of the city ”Festivals influence people’s idea of a city … At their best, festivals culminate in a ‘festival moment’, creating a momentum born of dramaturgical exellence and high quality content, a powerful experience bringing together audience , festival performers and organisers”. Silvanto & Hellman (2005)
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Re-enchanting public space as
”sites of potentiality, difference and delightful encounters” Watson (2006)
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Teatro Mundi
Spaces characterized by:
• Multifunction
• Disorder
• Difference
(Sennet, 2000)
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Teatro Mundi
“… the more that play between the disorder of public space and conventional behaviour can be exploited and encouraged, the more the public life is enhanced” (Sennet, 2000) (Sennet, 2000, p. 385)
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Performative arts - re-thinking the complex relationship between the performance, the audience and the place where meanings are made
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Metropolis Festival: “… artistic adaptations of significant buildings, squares and roads. These experiences include the staging of everyday life, installations in abandoned buildings, artists working with local groups in creative inner city processes, art experiences in temporary and mobile venues and excursions to the parameters of the city…”
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Cultural Policy ”proper” • Sector-based • Narrow, humanistic
definition of culture • Planning for
experiences of high artistic quality
• Strategic development of the arts and it’s audience
• Top-down
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Challenges: The Performative turn…
• Blurring boarders between art forms • Events instead of works of art • New relations between art & audience • Theater as a social event between play and
ritual Fischer-Lichte (2008)
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Importance of Cultural Policy
• The production of content
• The insistence on quality
• The importance of curating
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Cultural Planning
”The strategic and integral use of cultural resources in community development”
Mercer (2002)
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Cultural Planning ”classic”
• Geographical space • Broad,
anthropological definition of culture
• Planning for diverse lifestyles and subcultures
• Strategic use of cultural resources
• Bottom-up
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Cultural Mapping Quantitative • Population profile • Ethnic groups • Art-related workplaces • Cultural industries profile • Cultural facilities and
institutions • Natural and built cultural
heritage • Tourism and leisure profile • Quality of life profile Qualitative • Sense of place • Cultural attitudes • Artistic expression and their
stories • Accessibility and obstacles • Lifestyle and subcultures
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Critique of Cultural Planning:
”As a result cultural planning is expected to be about almost anything and relevant to almost everything. … only when planners adopt a cohesive and rigorous understanding of culture as something rather than everything will cultural planning emerge as an effective and relevant policy for local creative endeavour”
Stevenson (2005)
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Cultural Planning focuses on:
• Resources
• Relevance
• Relations
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Re-thinking the relation between:
Performative City
-re-ritualization -re-enchanting
- re-think relationships
CulturalPlanning - resources
- relevance
- relations
Cultural Policy
- content
- quality
- curating