No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City

The Picopress commission is to design and layout the book, create a POD print book, distribute this online throught Amazon and the clients own web site. Second is to create an eBook and dirstibute the book as far and wide as possible to online free to share systems; Google books, Scribd, P2P. Lastly Picopress will mount a promotion on partner web sites and social networks.

About the book

As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. Focusing on artists and consultants who have engaged critically with the exclusionary politics of urban regeneration, their analysis locates such practice within a schematic history of urban development’s neoliberal mode. Breaking down into a report and collection of interviews, this investigation consistently focuses on the possibility and forms of critical public art within a regime that fetishises ‘creativity’ whilst systematically destroying the preconditions for it in its pursuit of capital accumulation. How, they ask, is critical art shaped by its interaction with this aspect of biopolitical governance?

The project is a Mute magazine publication and you can read the publication here.

Due for publication early March 2010.