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As such, because the pièces are of a discursive,
site-specihc mandate and are not entering into the
gaüery systém, the exhibitionary complex cannot ap-
propriate them, leaving a moment where the works'
critical engagement with the city can be theorized
as a stand-aloneb Currently, these are works that
are as anti-art as they are art, occupying a space of
représentation that is entirely dépendant on the ar-
chitectural site of exhibition and placement within
the greater urban space.
Deiming the Urban Public Sphere(s)
The notion of an urban public sphere(s), plural-
ized in brackets, accentuâtes a theoretical demand
that accounts for a multitude of spheres acting
within a public realm at any given point of time. The
purpose is to dehne the agency of the individual as
a control-agent that can, actively and purposeiully,
dehne his or her own lexical valency within the
greater visual language of the urban. The idea of
the sphere, especially in a public sense, aliows for a
communicative and participatory action that rests
within the inhnite or god like in its associations.
Each sphere can be equal, lesser, or greater than
any other at any given point in hrne. The purpose in
theorizing multiple sphere(s) is to allow for power
motives, such as Foucaulťs operative episteme and
overlaying coercive apparatus, to at any one point
supersede the others at any given instance. Foucault
comments: "(ArAk-A7v Z? kA%p//AA, A^F&nřTAAA
A/w/A /'AfA-MW/ť h A A/) h A /A A/ iwr cAA
Arr^ o// k A A/ A/ AroA, DA//. AÎAy A A//A
yhpw, yA A A A ro//M?rA%<?A cř kA//
//////^ kA// rř // HkAč*// ^//í*
A to//Æ/AtA// k rAA Ak." There are theorists, such as
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, who argue that
the invocation of a monotheistic god aliows a guar-
anteed transcendental or inhnite rule through lawh

^ As they hâve not been publicly exhibited in a gaüery setting
nor received any kind of funding, the works are inherently
independent public activations. It wiü be interesting to exami-
ne how this working method can be adapted into the gaüery
systém, but it is beyond the scope of this paper to speculate
how the works may effectuate the space. For a thorough
discussion of the above, see BUSKIRK, M.: TA Cc/kAy/zt
Oppk Cambridge (Mass.) 2003; KWON,


2. G/vA/w LA/k/<A 200k. Pkc/c.* G^/zk^yt gf G. FvzwAk.

Following Hardt, Negri, and Foucault, power can be
localized to a larger sphere that would encompass
ail of those lesser spheres within it, but the triek to
the systém lies in the precariousness of a pluralized
sphere.
A pluralized sphere can be anywhere, larger than
any other or smaller than any other at any one point
in time dépendent on the agent's place position in
space. It is a referent to an inhnite agent specihc
multipücity that lies within us ail, and because we ail
hâve it, not one of us can děny nor accept another's
opinion of its existence. To argue for urban public

M.: 0%ř FA
Cambridge (Mass.) 2004.
FOUCAULT, M.: Ak/kA kfk&Uy Gc/zri Co/Ay
AFA/Mť, /277- 727k. Paris 2004, p. 102.
HARDT, M. - NEGŘI, A.: F/ypkv Cambridge (Mass.) 2001,
p. 78.

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