There Goes the Neighborhood
There Goes the Neighborhood is an exhibition, residency, discussion and publishing project for May 2009. The central element of this project will be an exploration of the politics of urban space. It will explore the complex life of cities and how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world.
At the heart of the exhibition is Redfern, an inner city suburb of Sydney which has been home for a large working class and Indigenous community, and which is undergoing a process of rapid development and change.
Artists involved include:
- Brenda L Croft (Australia)
- 16beaver (USA)
- Daniel Boyd (Australia)
- Temporary Services (USA)
- Jakob Jakobsen (Denmark)
- Lisa Kelly (Australia)
- SquatSpace (Australia)
- Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro (Berlin/Sydney)
- Evil Brothers (Ned and Tom Sevil, Australia)
- You Are Here (Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg, Australia)
- Michael Rakowitz (USA)
- Miklos Erhardt and Little Warsaw (Hungary)
- Bijari (Brazil)
- Democracia (Spain)
- A re-enactment of Allan Kaprow’s Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann 1963 (with thanks to the Allan Kaprow Estate). Coordinated by Lucas Ihlein.
Resulting from There Goes the Neighborhood is a book of the same name, available for download [PDF], which opens with a close study of Redfern before expanding into international examples of gentrification.
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