Urban Art as Visual Noise in Bogotá
Caitlin Bruce reports on urban art and social movements in Bogotá.
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance
In this issue's Global Public Art column, Caitlin Bruce discusses her Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project, which connects post-industrial cities across the US/Mexico border and offers new ways of producing and engaging graffiti and mural-making.
“Lo Internacional”: The International as Horizon for Legal Graffiti in Mexico
Caitlin Bruce examines the graffiti practices of a legal graffiti program in León, a city in central Mexico. Through her discussion of recent civic events, policies, celebrations, and news coverage dedicated to the program, Bruce shows how the international is a horizon of possibility, but also a looming constraint for the practice of public art.
Ser Humano/Ser Urbano: How Urban Art in Mexico Became a Carrier for So-Called Universal Values
In the first of her series of posts on transnational public art movements, Caitlin Bruce explores tensions around the relationship between urban identity and street art in Mexico.
The Speed of Power, The Pace of Protest: Resistant Urban Rhythms
Caitlin Bruce identifies the polyrhythmic nature of the city as a potent model for resistance to the Trump administration's tactics, and to anti-urban representations of the city as population instead of populace.
No Cities to Love: The Urban as Population, not People
Caitlin Bruce argues that the city could not figure in public imaginaries as a space for authentic populism in the 2016 U.S. election in part because of its long-standing representation as a contagion in cinema.