L’art en chantier: The arts, and the city in the making

For the past few decades, artists have decided to leave their studios to engage more directly with the polis, working in the public realm of the city. Most of them were at first inspired by dissenting ideologies and linked to revolutionary movements – as reflects the manifests of the pioneers, the Happening, Fluxus or the Situationnists (Lebel 1968; Kaprow 1966; Debord 1958). Critical literature later showed how art and the artists engaging in the public sphere might also have been instrument...