2023
DOI: 10.1177/23996544231172122
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Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley

Abstract: The article unpacks the multiple political implications of commissioned murals in contested urban space. It examines public artwork in Hogan’s Alley, a historically Black neighborhood in Vancouver, BC, situated on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Coast Salish Nations. Drawing from ethnographic field research and semi-structured interviews with local artists, policymakers and community activists, I read the mural Remember Hogan’s Alleny (2019), covering the sidewa… Show more

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“…This point is also made by (Tunali, 2020), who argues that the aesthetic of street art has been co-opted by neoliberalism, with its appropriation by developers robbing graffiti of much of its capacity for dissidence. However, this is not to say that all examples of commissioned street art are devoid of the capacity to provoke challenge in public space, as the example of Black artists commissioned by local authorities to create works on racial discrimination in Vancouver demonstrates (Landau-Donnelly, 2023).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This point is also made by (Tunali, 2020), who argues that the aesthetic of street art has been co-opted by neoliberalism, with its appropriation by developers robbing graffiti of much of its capacity for dissidence. However, this is not to say that all examples of commissioned street art are devoid of the capacity to provoke challenge in public space, as the example of Black artists commissioned by local authorities to create works on racial discrimination in Vancouver demonstrates (Landau-Donnelly, 2023).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%