Enright Theresa
University of Toronto, Canada.
Urban Stud. 2023 Jan;60(1):67-84. doi: 10.1177/00420980221087035. Epub 2022 Apr 21.
High-profile architecture and design, alongside integrated arts and cultural programming are now ubiquitous features of public transit networks. This article considers how and why transit-based arts and cultural programmes are proliferating globally as well as the impact of these programmes on transit and urban dynamics. Through critically analysing the discourses surrounding different transit art initiatives and the institutional structures which support them, this article shows how transit art is used today for varied - and often contradictory - ends. Based on this, it argues that we should not uncritically celebrate the rise of transit art as an unmitigated civic good. Rather, we must situate the rise of transit art within a political and aesthetic economy in which art has become 'expedient', and contend with the way transit art is implicated in elite, exclusionary and unsustainable processes of urbanisation.
引人注目的建筑与设计，以及综合艺术与文化项目，如今已成为公共交通网络中随处可见的特征。本文探讨基于交通的艺术与文化项目在全球范围内激增的方式与原因，以及这些项目对交通和城市动态的影响。通过批判性地分析围绕不同交通艺术倡议的论述以及支持这些倡议的制度结构，本文展示了如今交通艺术如何被用于各种不同且往往相互矛盾的目的。基于此，本文认为我们不应不加批判地将交通艺术的兴起颂扬为纯粹的城市福祉。相反，我们必须将交通艺术的兴起置于一种政治和审美经济之中，在这种经济中，艺术已变得“权宜”，并应对交通艺术如何牵涉到精英化、排他性和不可持续的城市化进程。
