Border Scenes

Darroch, Michael

doi:10.1080/09502386.2014.937935

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“…They might seem left over and stagnant, but they are always in process: they might be deteriorating further, and/or someone or something might alter or erase them. To highlight this processual character, Darroch (2015), drawing on Edensor (2005b), describes this as the "transformational character of ruins" (Darroch, 2015:307).…”

Section: Historical Context Of Detroit's Urban Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Küttel

2024

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Decades of decline, disinvestment, and racism have left Detroit with an abundance of abandoned buildings, ruins, vacant lots, and illicit trash dumps. Though these structures and materials might have forfeited their previous purposes, they can act as catalysts, substances, and co-creators of artworks. The paper is thus interested in examining the intricate interplay between art, space, and materiality in Detroit further. Drawing from the practices of local artists Olayami Dabls and Scott Hocking, the paper adopts a new materialist framework to investigate the dynamic agency of matter in the artistic process. By considering materials as active participants in the production of art and space, the paper seeks to add to the emerging interest in the emancipation and meaning making of material in art as well as cultural geography's engagements with new materialism.

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Section: Historical Context Of Detroit's Urban Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Küttel

2024

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“…There is a tradition in both academic and popular discussions of the roles artists play in the city's revival. Darroch discusses and takes to task the ability of "scattered hip enclaves" of culture in Detroit to change "acres of abandoned buildings and vacant lots" (Darroch 2015). This discussion attacks what seems to be a consistent theme in the popular press, which Darroch quotes as an exemplar: "Detroit is attracting artists in numbers large enough to earn it a designation as another Berlin: a city with a struggling economy where creative types can live and work cheaply" (Yablonsky 2011).…”

Section: Placemaking and The Narratives Of Revival In Detroit Today (And Yesterdaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural and Social Mecca: Entrepreneurial Action and Venue Agglomeration in Detroit's Paradise Valley and Black Bottom Neighborhoods

Peters¹

2020

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Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley were African-American neighborhoods that housed a vibrant and active popular music scene between World War I and the 1960s. They were home to a dense network of music venues, many of which were owned or managed by African-Americans. Urban renewal projects during the late-1950s destroyed much of the heart of these places. Unfortunately, discussion of this activity is largely missing from the academic literature on placemaking, cultural entrepreneurship, and music scenes in Detroit. To address this gap, I propose a solution that marries discussion of these neighborhoods with a method to measure and compare entrepreneurial activity in a music scene using venue density as a construct.This article examines the nature of entrepreneurial action in the collection of music venues that supported jazz musicians in Detroit's Black Bottom and Paradise Valley neighborhoods during the period of strong African-American business ownership between World War I and the 1960s. Aspects of entrepreneurial agglomeration and placemaking as they relate to musicianship are discussed. This discussion leads toward a methodology of measuring the vibrancy of a scene. Specific attention is paid to the creation of musical venues in the Paradise Valley and Black Bottom neighborhoods in Detroit before destructive urban-renewal projects took place in the early 1960s. These two neighborhoods are viewed using the lens of a modern-day music scene, oft described as vibrant and active. The relative density of music venues as a proxy for their activity is used as a method to compare the historical vibrancy of Paradise Valley and Black Bottom with a well-known contemporary American popular music scene in Austin, Texas.

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“…The repetitive use of ruin photographs throughout various forms of media has engendered dominant, overly one-dimensional outlooks on the city (Darroch, 2015; Ren, 2014), in which Detroit became a metonym for urban failure (Doucet, 2017). Through this lens, Detroit becomes an empty city, devoid of people, life, or hope.…”

Section: Rationalementioning

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Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents

Zebracki

Doucet

Brant³

2018

Space and Culture

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This article contributes to scholarship on urban visual culture by advancing understandings of how visual imageries may become (online and off-line) sites of confrontation between dominant media perspectives and the lived experiences of urban citizens. Based on participatory photography amongst local residents in Detroit, this article provides transformative insights by contrasting sense makings of Detroiters with dominant media portrayals of a “decaying” city. Residents were asked what images they would use to “see” and represent the city. Photo elicitation interviews revealed interlaced lived experienced and narrated reminiscences of local life and the material urban fabric beyond the prevailing narratives of mere neglect and abandonment. This study develops further knowledge of how photography can simultaneously operate as a critical socio-spatial research subject and an empowering tool for research participants. Through shifting the hegemonic locus of media agents toward residents’ positionalities, findings indicated potentials for redressing the misunderstood spaces of the everyday life of ordinary people.

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Border Scenes

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Material agency in art installations: exploring the interplay of art, space, and materials in Detroit

Cultural and Social Mecca: Entrepreneurial Action and Venue Agglomeration in Detroit's Paradise Valley and Black Bottom Neighborhoods

Beyond Picturesque Decay: Detroit and the Photographic Sites of Confrontation Between Media and Residents

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