When art and space meet: An ethnographic approach to artistic practices and urban space in Detroit

Contents
List of abbreviations and proper names
1 Introduction
	1.1 Production of art – production of space
	1.2 Structure
2 Art, society, and space
	2.1 Relational art
	2.2 Socially engaged art
	2.3 Art and/ in/ as public space
	2.4 Culture-led urban regeneration
3 Space and place
	3.1 The city, the urban, and space
	3.2 A global sense of place
4 Interim conclusion
5 How to keep grip of the general and the local
	5.1 Ethnographic research
	5.2 The field?
	5.3 The situatedness of (my) knowledge
	5.4 Moving, observing, asking, and listening
	5.5 Analyzing, evaluating, and reflecting
6 The city of Detroit
	6.1 Detroit’s historical context
	6.2 Recent developments in Detroit
	6.3 Art and/ in Detroit
	6.4 Portraits of artists and interviewees
7 Artistic practices
	7.1 Seeking, finding, and recycling material
	7.2 Working site-specific
	7.3 Making and/ or displaying art outside
	7.4 Focusing on community
	7.5 Documenting and creating stories about Detroit
8 Producing art – producing space
	8.1 Representations of space
	8.2 Materiality
	8.3 Site
	8.4 Public
	8.5 Social
	8.6 Story
9 Space, artistic practice, and Detroit
10 Conclusion, or: space as a simultaneity of stories-so-far
	10.1 Reflection
	10.2 Outlook
Bibliography
List of figures
List of obtained data and visited events