VIRTUAL Barcelona Livable Cities

Abstract

Public art, creative interventions and sub cultures can rupture large urban cityscapes, they can gather diverse communities through that shared interest. This presentation will reflect on a larger collaboration that situated France and Canada as a specific point of entry for creative ruptures within public space. The work unpacks how we produce space to understand, cities as living entities constantly transforming. If we continue to look toward future generations, we can see the potential to create space that is more reflective of diverse bodies, revealing and exposing relationships to people, language, and place. The collaboration between Dr. Nagam’s theoretical and artistic work grapples with deconstructing historical narratives, extending our notion of time by engaging the memories and the stories that the land keeps. Much of her past artwork deconstructs the cartographic process based on layering archival materials, current images, projections, paintings, drawings, and installations. Professor and artist Igloliorte whose practice explores colour, language, old and new technologies, painting, and skateboarding. His work as part of Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022 was inspired by Inuit stone arrangements around arctic fish spawning sites — Saputiit – Fish Weir Skate Plaza and currently working on a new skateboarding plaza Maujagak, a series of low, angular platforms that replicate the fragmented spring ice pans. This presentation will reflect on artistic practices, research creation that allows for ongoing investigations of cities as sites that are transformative. Building on the possibility of cities through the daily meanderings to different locations which demonstrate ruptures or transformations. These new investigations explore the relationship between urban space and place to understand the connection to place through activities such as walking and skateboarding.