Anne Douglas
Professor, Director, On The Edge Research, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
Chris Fremantle
Research Associate, On the Edge Research, Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
Breaking through the aesthetics of public art
Our paper will address the following research questions drawing on the practices of a selection of artists that we are currently working with
- Is value in art in the public sphere a single distinctive system that stands alongside other social/cultural/economic systems of value or is it an iteration of existing forms of cultural production such as social entrepreurialism?
- In what sense is value in relation to art a process of negotiating across difference? What are the implications for approaches to practice?
- Should one set of the criteria be priviledged over others e.g. public good over the aesthetic?
- Is art uniquely placed to frame social, cultural, aesthetic and ethical value systems?
