Priscila Arantes to Speak in Atlanta
Curator speaks in conjunction with GSU’s CENCIA
Atlanta Art Now Staff
Brazilian critic, curator, and professor Priscila Arantes discusses contemporary art in “post-urban” settings, considering Atlantan and Brazilian artists. Dr. Arantes’s talk is a response to the book Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape.
Atlanta Art Now is a biennial critical investigation of contemporary art in Atlanta. 2011 is its inaugural year.
Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape
Table of Contents
+ Series Preface
Louis Corrigan, Possible Futures,
Inc.
+ Foreword
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior
Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
+ Introduction
Jerry Cullum, Catherine Fox, and
Cinqué Hicks
In a globalized era, Noplaceness may be
where new paradigms are born.
+ Battle Grounds: Spatial Contest and the Fictions of Place
Cinqué Hicks
Artists see physical space is the
battleground of competing political and economic claims.
+ We Are Not Danes in Denmark: Displacement and the Liquid
Self in Atlanta Art
Jerry Cullum
Atlanta artists respond to a sense of
dislocation now common in the globalized world.
+ Out in Public: Recent Moves in Art in Public Space
Catherine Fox
Artists take advantage of public space to
add depth to the urban experience.
+ The In-Between: Identity and Global Anxiety
Cinqué Hicks
Artists explore the in-between spaces as
cultural origins don’t mean what they used to.
+ Apocalypse!
Catherine Fox
Atlanta’s visual artists have contemplated
the end of place altogether.
