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25 – 28 Feburary 2009
CAA 2009 Conference, Los Angeles

CAA College Art Association
97th Annual Conference

Session: Stealth Public Art

Traditional, sanctioned models of public art generally do not ebb into extinction (although we sometimes may wish this were so) but coexist with new initiatives competing for legitimacy and currency. Object- and design-driven models of permanent public art persist, but other initiatives and innovations have produced an exciting, unsettling, and discursive range of artifactual, social, spatial, and political manifestations—including installations, interventions, performances, products, reenactments, and multiple forms of collaboration—that engage subjects and issues with agility and urgency. It is this thrilling instability and ubiquity that makes “stealth” public art difficult to dismiss and elusive to examine critically. The session comprises papers and presentations from artists, art historians, critics, and curators on alternative practices, projects, and initiatives that seek to question, bypass, or transform existing models and accepted conventions of public art. Whether peripatetic, unobtrusive, or clandestine, these frequently artist-initiated works anticipate imminent issues and stimulate critical ideas regarding the future of the public art and public space.

Wednesday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Concourse Meeting Room 408B, Level 2
Los Angeles Convention Center

Chair: Patricia C. Phillips, Cornell University

Orange Work: Renegotiating Public Space, John Hawke, Suffolk Community College

Take It to the Air: Radio as Public Art, Sarah Kanouse, University of Iowa

Networked Cultures: Circulations of Unsoliticed Connectivity, Helge Mooshammer, Vienna University of Technology

Meanwhile, Zoe Sheehan Saldana, Baruch College, City University of New York

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