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Resisting the creation of forgotten places: artistic production in Toronto neighbourhoods
Author(s) -
BAIN ALISON L.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2006.00155.x
Subject(s) - downtown , neighbourhood (mathematics) , narrative , vernacular , aesthetics , sociology , visual arts , collective memory , media studies , history , art , political science , archaeology , literature , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics
This article analyzes semi‐structured interviews with contemporary visual artists from Toronto, Canada, to explore the relationship between artists, memory, and place. The focus of the article is on three neighbourhoods in downtown Toronto that have the potential to become forgotten places of artistic production: Yorkville, King Street West and The Junction. Through an analysis of artists' spatially grounded narratives about these three neighbourhoods, I reveal how the intense emotional and material connections that artists have to places have the potential to challenge the loss of collective urban memory. This article contributes to intersecting literatures on neighbourhood change, artistic production and the importance of vernacular memory in urban cultural geography .