Welcoming uncertainty, McNamara has enthusiastically and intentionally pursued temporary and collaborative projects as diverse as biennial exhibitions, museum benefits, and one night performances in a variety of
public and private spaces resulting in a truly fluid practice that intertwines the art community, social networks and technology.
Anna Minton's 2009 book, Ground Control,
and the 2011 London Assembly Report,
Public Life in Private Hands, both highlight an increase in surveillance and control in the public realm as the management of newly designed public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable&r
Public Life in
Private Hands, both highlight an increase in surveillance
and control in the
public realm as the management of newly designed public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable&r
public realm as the management of newly designed
public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities, resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable&r
public spaces is ceded to developers, rather than retained by elected local authorities,
resulting in a winnowing out of people thought «undesirable».
As a duo, «they're interested in the precarious forms of labor that
result from capitalist structure,
and the boundaries between
public and private spaces» in capitalist economies, according to the gallery's owner Vanessa Carlos.
The indigent are increasingly construed as dangerous
and less deserving members of society,
and the
public and private spaces of these individuals have been shrinking as a
result.
On the other hand, Professor Diane Finegood, CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, led an initiative that provided
private spaces for Big Food to talk to
public health
and was surprised by the
results.