Temporary intervention #1 – photographed at Aylesbury Estate, London, for Writing Visual Culture, Vol. 6

Port-au-Prince is New Orleans

The Neighborhood is dangerous, but we got there

Temporary intervention #2 – photographed at Aylesbury Estate, London, for Writing Visual Culture, Vol. 6
Temporary intervention #3 – photographed at Aylesbury Estate, London, for Writing Visual Culture, Vol. 6

Edgelands Aesthetics

Red Road Re-visions

Temporary intervention #4 – photographed at Aylesbury Estate, London, for Writing Visual Culture, Vol. 6
Temporary intervention #5 – photographed at Aylesbury Estate, London, for Writing Visual Culture, Vol. 6

Ōtomo’s exploding Cities

Between Texts and Cities

—a visual essay for Writing Visual Culture Vol.6.

TEXTS+CITIES explores the relation between texts and urban spaces in contemporary culture and society. Cities have often been compared to palimpsests, their streets, buildings, and subways pleated, crumpled, written and rewritten over and over again: as material texts, poïesis. What is at stake in this conflation of city and text? How do urban spaces relate to artistic, political, or economic texts and ideologies? What transformations occur between the designing of urban spaces, and the building and eventual inhabiting of those spaces?

TEXTS+CITIES brings together scholars and practitioners within an interdisciplinary range of social sciences, humanities, art, design, and media to reflect on ways of producing, reproducing, and experiencing the urban:

» Port-au-Prince is New Orleans: Race, Space, and the Spectacle of Suffering « [Dr Christopher Garland]
» “The Neighborhood Is Dangerous, But We Got There”: Urban Space, Neoliberal Resistance, and Black Representation in Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston « [Dr Demetrios V. Kapetanakos]
» Edgelands Aesthetics: Exploring the Liminal in Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009) « [Lance Hanson]

» Red Road Re-visions « [Dr Peter Clandfield]
» A Disconnected Community? (Re)visioning the Heygate Council Estate Through Digital Activism « [Dr Nicola Mann]
» Superstudio’s Dystopian Tales: Textual and Graphic Practice as Operational Method « [Dr Daniela N. Prina]
» Ōtomo’s Exploding Cities – The Intersection of Class and City in Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s Works Before, During, and After the Bubble Economy in Japan « [Sebastian Klausner]

WRITING VISUAL CULTURE (WVC) is an international peer-reviewed journal for research in visual culture published by the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire.
WVC is the journal of the TVAD Research Group, working on relationships between text, narrative and image. WVC publishes original double-blind peer-reviewed open access scholarship on all aspects of visual culture, spanning art, design and media.
Volume 6: Between Texts and Cities is guest edited by Dr Daniel Marques Sampaio and Michael Heilgemeir. The WVC Series Editor is Dr Grace Lees-Maffei.

Writing Visual Culture, Volume 6
Between Texts and Cities
ISSN: 2049-7180