Performing the City
Urban spaces have always been a source of inspiration for artists and their vision of the city often allows us to move beyond preconceptions. As a result, the mutations of global urbanization necessarily resonate in their work. The visual artist Alain Bublex and the philosopher Bastien Gallet discuss what could be termed the “totalization” of urbanization, as a phenomenon entailing threshold effects and differentiated layers of reality. Articulating flows and places, they describe the cityscape in terms of spatialities and non-programmable uses rather than formal spaces. Alain Bublex is a french visual artist. Bastien Gallet is a writer and philosopher. He teaches at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR). (interview with Philippe Chiambaretta)
