Bestel Nu Reading urban cracks – Riet Steel; Elly van Eeghem

This book questions the why and how of setting up artistic and social practices in interstitial spaces in the city, urban cracks. Urban cracks are conceptualised as in-between time spaces, characterised by an apparent void, where different logics meet and conflict.
The lamination of different historically grown layers of meaning and the crossing of conflicting logics in these ‘useless’ places, are highlighted as significant features which artists and community workers could act upon. The authors discuss the …