Art and the City

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Talking art 1
Encountering art 3
The urban body 7
SECTION 1
1 The future of art is urban 11
Seeing the street 11
Work/play 15
City-specific art 22
Relational art 27
Relational bodies 30
2 Relational writing 35
Spatial practice 35

Situated encounters 40
Writing art and the city 42
SECTION 2
3 Walking with Wentworth et al. 53
Talking the walk 53
Footprints 66
M¨unster footwork 75
4 London playing fields 97
Urban mobilisations 97
Running free 110
Art and play 125
5 Berlin, Vienna: Performing Holocaust memory 139
Not just a game 139
The silent ‘H’ word 152
Notes 167
Bibliography 181
Index 191