Who Has The Right to the City?

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm UTC-05:00

19 Washington Square N | New York

NYUAD Institute
Publisher/HostNYUAD Institute
Who Has The Right to the City?
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Roundtable on socially engaged public art, urban memory, and belonging, inspired by Katia Arfara’s new book Curating the Commons
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Since the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the Occupy movements around the globe, artists have increasingly turned to new models of artistic production and community engagement, expanding their work beyond the walls of theaters and museums and into situated social and ecological practices. Katia Arfara’s new book, Curating the Commons. Socially Engaged Public Art, offers an in-depth study on performance-centered artworks she curated in unexpected urban spaces in Greece during the austerity years, complicating notions of memory, agency, mobility, and belonging. This roundtable explores how the book contributes to the larger effort to craft human and other-than-human narratives and repair shattered urbanities in response to the multifaceted crises of our time.

Photo: Dmitry Vilensky

Speakers
Katia Arfara, Author, "Curating the Commons. Socially Engaged Public Art" (University of Michigan Press, 2025); Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, NYUAD
Peter Eckersall, Sidney E. Cohn Professor in Theatre, PhD Program in Theatre and Performance, The Graduate Center CUNY
Edward Ziter, Professor of Theatre Studies, Department of Undergraduate Drama Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

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19 Washington Square N, 19 Washington Square North, New York, United States

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