The City in Time
Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Illuminates how the city has shaped contemporary artistic practice in Southeast Asia In The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually "postwar." Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social transformations as reflected through the urban landscapes of Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. As she argues, artists' engagements with urban space and form reveal ways of grasping multiple and layered senses and concepts of time, whether aligned with colonialism, postcolonial modernity, communism, or postsocialism. The City in Time traces the process through which collective memory and aspiration are mapped onto landscape and built space to shed light on how these vibrant Southeast Asian cities shape artistic practices as the art simultaneously consolidates the city as image and imaginary. Featuring a dynamic array of creative productions that include staged and documentary photography, the moving image, and public performance and installation, The City in Time illustrates how artists from Vietnam and Cambodia have envisioned their rapidly changing worlds.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Contemporary Art, History, and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia
- Chapter 1: Affective Communities: Imagining Saigon/Vietnam
- Chapter 2: Art and the Urban Order: Spatial Interventions in Ho Chi Minh City
- Chapter 3: Making Space: The Documentary Impulse and Civil Spectatorship in Cambodia
- Chapter 4: Jumping Scales: Performing the Postcolonial Cityscape in Phnom Penh
- Conclusion: Cities in Conjunction and Comparative Prospects
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index