PUBLIC 53: MEGA-EVENT CITIES: Art/Audiences/Aftermaths

[Keren Zaiontz]

Dear friends,


I'm delighted to announce the PUBLIC special issue of MEGA-EVENT CITIES: Art/Audiences/Aftermaths co-edited with Peter Dickinson and Kirsty Johnston.

http://www.publicjournal.ca/53-mega-event-cities/

MEGA-EVENT CITIES brings together leading scholars, artists, and activists to examine the role of the arts in articulating the social agendas of urban mega-events like Olympic Games and World Expos. As mega-events circulate from one city to the next, they leave complex (often ruinous) infrastructural legacies for artists and communities, with scenarios of national celebration transiting swiftly to austerity measures and socially cleansed urban cores. The contributors to PUBLIC 53 engage with the exhilaration and sober aftermaths of the "mega" by taking stock of the fluid politics of officials who seek to commemorate mega-events through public art programs, and activists who choose to question the same events through creative acts of resistance. With particular focus on Vancouver and London-but ranging beyond to Sochi, Rio, Milan, Calgary, and Baku, Azerbaijan-this issue asks how art and culture can intervene in the pressing security, human rights, and environmental issues that shape mega-events. Mega-Event Cities addresses the local politics of global placemaking and shows the shared artistic practices, performative interventions, and resistant acts that can be found across host city sites.

Introduction

Mega-Event Cities, Peter Dickinson, Kirsty Johnston, Keren Zaiontz

PART 1: Vancouver 2010
Hosts and Guests, Lorna Brown

The Illusion of Inclusion: Agenda 21 and the Commodification of Indigenous Culture in Olympic Games, Janice Forsyth

"You just Censored Two Native Artists": Diseased Logics and Anti-Olympic Resistance, Jennifer Adese

PART 2: London 2012
Olympian Performance: The Cultural Economics of the Opening Ceremony of London 2012, Michael McKinnie

Media Archaeologies of the Olympic City, Angela Piccini

Inelastic Olympic Hopefuls: Rhythmic Mis-Interpellation in Three Auditions for the London 2012 Ceremonies, Keren Zaiontz

PART 3: Reflections on Art and Activism after the "Big Show"
Battle for a Brave New World, Jenny Sealey

Public Art as Collective Practice: A Conversation with Neville Gabie

The Aesthetics of Austerity: A Conversation with Liz Crow

PART 4: Suspending Freedom, Sustaining Spectacle: Mega-Event Cities, Past and Present
Calgary (1988): A Cultural Olympiad Avant La Lettre, Susan Bennett

Olympic Homonationalisms, Heather Sykes

All that Glitters: Sport BP, and Repression in Azerbaijan ("The Great Coming Out Part of Azerbaijan" and "What the Marriage has Created"), Emma Hughes and James Marriott

States of no Exception: EXPO 2015 in Milano, Urban Subjects

Figures (2015)-Mass Sculptural Durational Performance, Liz Crow

Collective Breath poster, Neville Gabie

The issue will soon be available through institutional library subscription vis-a-vis Intellect and hard copies be ordered through PUBLIC. Enjoy!


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Keren Zaiontz, PhD
Assistant Professor and Queen's National Scholar
Department of Film and Media
Cultural Studies Graduate Program
Queen's University
Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6
E. keren.zaiontz at queensu.ca<mailto:keren.zaiontz at queensu.ca>
Reviews Editor: Performance Research<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprs20/current#.VgL4KrQmehM>

Queen's University sits on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee & Anishinabek
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