Collectively Alternative Economies Annotated Community- based Bibliography Decolonial Narratives On Artistic Practices in the Expanded Field Environmental Issues of Public Art Feminisms Impacting Mediascapes research by Visible Project Indigenous Rights Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto Fondazione Zegna Labour Fights and Public Art Agency Sweden Legal Loopholing Making Assemblies edited by Judith Wielander and Matteo Lucchetti Migrant Movements New Archives Sustainable Social Rural Racial Queer Publishing Protest Performing Pedagogical Urbanisation Design Politics Struggles Cultures Matters Forms Communities Platforms Preamble Alternative Economies Community- based by Rebecka Katz Thor, Public Art Agency Sweden Decolonial Narratives Environmental Issues At this moment, in the autumn of 2020, our shared public space is as contested as ever. As a consequence of the pandemic, citizens around Feminisms the world are asked to keep a safe distance from each other, which alters our movements in the public sphere. And even more pressing, the passing Impacting Mediascapes of the summer bears with it a great responsibility to reflect on the demands made by the Black Lives Matter movement, questioning whether statues of Indigenous Rights former slave traders and colonisers should remain in the public domain. Art in the public sphere will, and should always, be discussed, assessed Labour Fights and reassessed. This publication and digital platform are the Legal Loopholing result of a longstanding commitment by the Public Art Agency Sweden, as a governmental agency, to matters of knowledge production in terms Making Assemblies of collective and critical work in the expanded Migrant Movements New Archives Sustainable Social Rural Racial Queer Publishing Protest Performing Pedagogical Urbanisation Design Politics Struggles Cultures Matters Forms Communities Platforms Alternative Alternative Economies field of public art. Between 2018 and 2020, the field of public art and provide a resource for its Public Art Agency Sweden was commissioned to development. Secondly, we wanted to reconnect initiate and support a wider dissemination of to a previous activity of the Public Art Agency Community- based knowledge of public art, as a part of the policy of Sweden, namely the Informationscentrum (Centre ‘Designed Living Environment’ and urban and for Information) which ran from 1976 to 1996 and societal transformation. We have encouraged, was a resource for art production, with an archive commissioned and funded academic research, and a library open to the public. The actual Decolonial Narratives organised conferences and seminars, published physical library resulting from this commission an overview of academic research at Swedish will, in a similar manner, facilitate both academic universities and collaborated with artistic and and artistic research, as well as being a resource curatorial education programmes to further the for artistic and curatorial commissions and Environmental Issues field – in order to establish and expand knowledge collaborations. With this we hope to further on the nature of public art, its processes and develop strategies for knowledge production within curatorial methods, as well as readings and and beyond the agency. Feminisms reflections on existing and historical works. In the spring of 2019, we invited Visible to – Rebecka Katz Thor, edit an ‘annotated bibliography’, that is, a classic Editor for In-Depth Materials and Reflection, bibliography with brief explanations of the major Public Art Agency Sweden, October 2020 Impacting Mediascapes themes of each book. Our aim was to broaden the scope and reach beyond solely Western academic publications, into other realms and expressions Indigenous Right relevant to the field of public art on a global scale. What you have before you is the result of that Labour Fights commission – together with a digital platform available on Visible’s website and a physical library consisting of the books presented in this Since 1937, Public Art Agency Sweden has explored Legal Loopholing publication at the Public Art Agency Sweden’s and developed the interaction between contemporary headquarters in Stockholm. art and public spaces. Through site-specific art, The idea behind this commission was temporary interventions, urban development projects, twofold: firstly, as stated above, we wanted to edit discussions and publications we strive to contribute to the Making Assemblies an overview of the knowledge of the extended development of both contemporary art and public spaces. Migrant Movements New Archives Sustainable Social Rural Racial Queer Publishing Protest Performing Pedagogical Urbanisation Design Politics Struggles Cultures Matters Forms Communities Platforms Contents Alternative Economies Collective Narratives for Urgent Transformations 7 by Matteo Lucchetti and Judith Wielander – Visible Community- based Collectively Annotated Bibliography. 19 On Artistic Practices in the Expanded Field of Public Art Alternative Economies 20 Decolonial Narratives Community-based 30 Decolonial Narratives 38 Environmental Issues 56 Feminisms 72 Environmental Issues A Conversation with Emanuele Coccia 81 Impacting Mediascapes 89 Indigenous Rights 93 Feminisms Labour Fights 102 Legal Loopholing 106 Making Assemblies 110 Migrant Movements 119 New Archives 126 Impacting Mediascapes Museum as a Public Space of Care by Gabi Ngcobo 137 Pedagogical Platforms 145 Indigenous Rights Performing Communities 152 Protest Forms 164 Publishing Matters 186 Labour Fights A Conversation with Andrea Phillips 193 Queer Cultures 201 Racial Struggles 207 Legal Loopholing Rural Politics 215 Social Design 219 Sustainable Urbanisation 222 Making Assemblies Fundamental Readings on Socially Engaged Art 2000–2011 227 Biographies 229 Migrant Movements New Archives Sustainable Social Rural Racial Queer Publishing Protest Performing Pedagogical Urbanisation Design Politics Struggles Cultures Matters Forms Communities Platforms Collective Narratives Alternative Economies for Urgent Transformations Community- based by Matteo Lucchetti Decolonial Narratives and Judith Wielander –Visible Environmental Issues ‘Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which Feminisms we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.’ Impacting Mediascapes Audre Lorde The Commission Indigenous Rights As curators of the Visible project, 1 we have been fascinated by the way in which long-term socially engaged art projects take form in their initial phases. What makes an artist, a curator or a collective decide to Labour Fights dedicate so much of their initiative, time and energy to give shape to a proposition for the collective good? When asked, they would often refer 2011, to reading as a source of inspiration for the alternative perspectives that their projects embodied. So, when the Public Art Agency Sweden Legal Loopholing commissioned us with compiling this annotated bibliography on the expanded field of public art, we didn’t have to look any further than to the translocal network of practitioners that we have established through Visible in the last ten years of work. The original commission Making Assemblies was to draft a bibliography that could be closer to the evolving methodologies of artists and curators, in their attempt to transform Festival de Performance de Cali, de Cali, de Performance Festival th by Helena Producciones, 1998–ongoing. Producciones, Helena by 8 Courtesy recipient) of the artists. Award (2011 Visible Migrant Movements 6 7 New Archives Sustainable Social Rural Racial Queer Publishing Protest Performing Pedagogical Urbanisation Design Politics Struggles Cultures Matters Forms Communities Platforms Alternative Alternative Economies Community- based Decolonial Narratives Environmental Issues Feminisms by Cooking Sections, 2015–ongoing. Cooking Sections, by Impacting Mediascapes Indigenous Rights Climavore – On Tidal Zones Tidal Zones – On Climavore Photo by Colin Hattersley. Courtesy of the artists. by Colin Hattersley. Photo shortlisted project) Award Visible (2019 theoretical achievements into new spaces for action in the so-called a global context, through a transnational, intergenerational, gender Labour Fights expanded field of public art. In dialogue with the Public Art Agency, and racially diverse advisory board. We imagined a corpus of about we problematised the notion of ‘public art’ as a category responding to 150 printed materials, composed of publications focusing on artistic a very Western perspective on art and public space, and we interpreted practices in the expanded field of art with a public purpose. the expanded field as an interdisciplinary one, where many forms of The selection of the texts reflects a decolonial perspective that Legal Loopholing knowledge and points of view could join. takes into account the bias, privileges and power positions of those who wrote the dominant perspectives on art history so far. This research mutated its procedures from the collaborative By acknowledging the ever-changing and multidisciplinary methodology through which the Visible project has been conceived, protagonists of such a field, this annotated bibliography aims at Making Assemblies creating, every second year, forms of solidarity and support with the showing the interdependence of the several