Arts space under (narrative) construction.
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2012-10-03
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Located at the intersection of urban development and civic arts governance, an experimental arts space is diversely represented by its three vested groups. For Calgary Municipal Land Corp (CMLC), the Seafood Market is a grassroots marketing campaign; for Calgary Arts Development Authority (CADA), the repurposed building is an experiment in arts space governance; and for artists the donated space is a temporarily affordable haven at the centre of a ‘creative city’ make-over. Helping to identify the underlying motives and methods of these narrators are Bourdieu’s capitals theory and Lefebrve’s notions of spatial practices. By combining a narrative research approach for data analysis with an arts-based research text, this communications case study demonstrates the conscription of artists as characters in the dominant narrative of urban gentrification and the influences limiting their active participation in complicating that narrative.
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Deimert, J. (2012). Arts space under (narrative) construction. (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24999