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Tour 13: From Precarity to Ephemerality

Pages 432-452 | Received 18 Feb 2016, Accepted 11 Jul 2016, Published online: 03 Nov 2016
 

Abstract

This article explores a temporary street art project in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, Tour 13. The project, which involved more than 100 street artists taking over abandoned apartments and transforming them, to be displayed for a one-month period before the building was demolished, draws attention to the rhythms of creative destruction that underlie urban renewal practices. Moreover, the process of waiting to enter the building and the works contained within function to draw attention to both the losses caused by precarious economies and the need for an alternative social temporal framework, one more focused on ephemerality. Bridging recent discussions in cultural studies, rhetoric, and critical urban studies, this article explores the politics of precarity and the creative class as it effectuates built space in Paris and argues that ephemerality offers an alternative temporal and political response to precarity.

本文探讨巴黎第十三郡十三区的临时街头艺术计画。共计有一百多名街头艺术家参与了该计画,他们接管了弃置的公寓并将之转化,在该建筑被拆除之前进行为期一个月的展示,以吸引对于构成城市更新实践基础的创造性破坏律动之关注。此外,等待进入建筑的过程,以及内部的工作,发挥作用以吸引关注不稳定的经济所导致的损失,以及更为聚焦短暂事物的另类社会时间架构之必要。本文连结文化研究、修辞学和批判城市研究的晚近讨论,探讨不稳定性和创意阶级的政治,该政治贯彻了巴黎的建成环境。本文并主张,短暂事物对不稳定性提供了另类的暂时且政治性的回应。

Este artículo explora un Proyecto de arte callejero temporal en el décimo-tercer arrondissement de París, Tour 13. El proyecto ––que involucró a más de 100 artistas callejeros para apropiarse de apartamentos abandonados para transformarlos, con el objeto de desplegarlos durante un período de un mes antes de que el edificio fuese demolido–– atrae la atención hacia los ritmos de la destrucción creativa que subrayan las prácticas de renovación urbana. Aún más, el proceso de esperar a entrar al edificio y a los trabajos ubicados dentro del mismo funciona para atraer la atención tanto para las pérdidas causadas por economías precarias como la necesidad de un temporal marco social alternativo, uno que se enfoque más en la condición de lo efímero. Uniendo discusiones recientes en estudios culturales, retórica y estudios urbanos críticos, este artículo explora la política de la precariedad y la clase creativa en cuanto efectúa espacio construido en París y sostiene que lo efímero ofrece una alternativa temporal y una respuesta política a la precariedad.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author thanks the editor and anonymous reviewers for comments, and Emma Imbrie Chubb, Erica Johnson, and copanelists at the 2015 Affect Studies: Worlding, Tensions, Futures conference for comments on earlier versions of the text.

FUNDING

Research was conducted with support of Northwestern University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship.

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Funding

Research was conducted with support of Northwestern University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship.

Notes on contributors

Caitlin Frances Bruce

CAITLIN FRANCES BRUCE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. E-mail: [email protected]. Her research interests include public art, urban space, critical theory, and affect studies, particularly regarding how public art creates spaces for encounter transnationally.

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