Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Arts and Culture for Urban Development in North American Cities (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Volker Kirchberg

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 12:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 5.326 (ICAM)

Inhalt: Throughout my academic life I have studied changes in the urban meanings and functions of culture and the arts for urban development in Baltimore and Hamburg. In both cities, the usage and the interpretation of the arts for urban development has clearly changed over time. In Baltimore, the narratives have changed from a Eurocentric attitude of an established bourgeoisie, “educating the masses”, in 1988, to a neo-liberal economization of the arts as “rendering the creative city” in 2004, to an experimental “nurturing the creative edge” in specific artistic districts in 2010. In 2016, I looked again at Baltimore, specifically at the racially discriminatory effect of the arts in that city, and I resumed the comparative perspective in 2022 by studying issues of racism and diversity in Hamburg’s arts institutions. This seminar now will also have a heavy empirical orientation, going back to the initial research question of the functions and meanings of arts and culture for Baltimore's urban development. How have these functions and meanings changed in the last years, who are the main artistic, socio-cultural and urban players, and where are the fault lines, if there are any, between a still mostly neoliberal state and a partially progressive socio-cultural civil society? We will review some of the main scholarly texts on the topic but then will immediately formulate a questionnaire and interview these players and potential agents of change trying to find answers to the above question(s).

• Masterprogramm Cultural Studies: Culture and Organization - Kernbereich - Fields of Culture and the Arts
• Masterprogramm Humanities & Social Sciences: Kulturwissenschaften - Culture, Arts and Media [ab Studienbeginn WS 13/14] - Minor Praxisfelder der Künste - Wissens- und Praxisformen in künstlerischen Feldern