Flea Market Painting
Mersinis, Michael (2025) Flea Market Painting. [Artefact]
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Creators/Authors: | Mersinis, Michael | ||||||||
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Abstract: | In criminology, the ‘Broken Windows Theory’, introduced in 1982 by social scientists Wilson and Kelling, proposes that visible signs of disorder create an urban environment that encourages further disorder. There is an implication that the urban landscape allows a communication of lack of authority and this, in turn, proliferates a disregard for social norms and law. A new social geography emerges leading to a continuous deterioration of culture and community, as disorder becomes more common. The works scrutinize the nuanced relationship between causality and correlation and advocate a complex response to how the urban landscape ultimately can become a site of resistance of marginalised communities and how disorder reflects the complexities of class dynamics. Disorder is reframed as a complex phenomenon, imbued with transformative potential and latent opportunities for societal renewal and magical opportunities. The work submitted to the 'Le Salon D’Echangiste' show aims to not only support STudnet endeavours, and curatorial practices that are interesting, but to also allow itself (as a photograph) to move away from simple representation and to instead consider itself as exchange currency | ||||||||
Output Type: | Artefact | ||||||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: | photography, class matters, exchange, artwork as currency | ||||||||
Media of Output: | Exhibition | ||||||||
Schools and Departments: | School of Fine Art > Fine Art Photography | ||||||||
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Funders: | Glasgow School of Art | ||||||||
Projects: | Broken Windows, This City | ||||||||
Output ID: | 10174 | ||||||||
Deposited By: | Michael Mersinis | ||||||||
Deposited On: | 17 Mar 2025 16:12 | ||||||||
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2025 16:12 |