This web page illustrates some of the areas of public and urban culture Jonathan Vickery's research has taken him - the content of this page largely features a selection of past art and cultural criticism, and a few conference papers.
The core of my interest is 'cultural politics' - the way in which cultural production (objects, spaces and places) are sites of instititutional, social or managerial-organizational power. See my analysis of the concept of culture-led regeneration, below:
Culture-Led Regeneration 
See also (if you read Russian): 'Culture-Led Regeneration: synthesising social, cultural and urban policy' in Romanov, P. and Iarskaia-Smirnova (eds) Urban Optics: Images of Social Reality (Moscow: Variant Press, 2009).
'Design Management, Urban Regeneration and the Organization of Culture' in Gerrard, B. and Hands, D. (2007) Design Management: Fieldwork and Applications, London: Routledge.
I have worked with artists -- creating intellectual dialogue, extending both their work and my own understanding of the conditions of contemporary art. In the case of international artist Jochen Gerz, I can hardly claim to have extended his work, but through 3 years during his Coventry project 'Public Authorship' I organised an international conference on his work at Warwick Arts Centre, with Jochen, two public symposia, and a lot of other research-based collaboration between my Warwick students and some outstanding Coventry University School of Art and Design students. SEE below for an article I wrote for Public Art Online in 2003, during Jochen's 5 year project in Coventry.
http://www.jochengerz.eu/
Jochen Gerz
PublicAuthorship
Colin Halliday
My first association with Colin Halliday goes back to Camden Town in London when we collaborated on an exhibition in 1987! He is a landscape artist, but has developed a compelling means of articulating both nature in the urban and urban in the natural, and our contemporary experience of space and environment. My work is largely intellectual dialogue, with occasional peices of art criticism (see to the right).
Charles Quick
I have worked with Charles Quick over the last 12 months developing a new concept of urban art, we call 'infrastructures'. Charles has worked in urban art for the last 30 years, particularly with innovative or bespoke technology and electrical systems. This project was in the de-industrialised town of Hebburn in the North East of England, once a global centre for industrial innovation. Our first product was a book (see right), which I edited and have a large article, 'Creating FLASH@Hebburn'.
Here is an anthology of contemporary critical art writings I edited with my good friend and colleague Diarmuid Costello: it is the kind of intellectual overview of contemporary thinking in art, aesthetics and critical-cultural theory we would have wanted while both graduate students in art theory and continental philosophy at Essex University in the late 1990s.
http://www.bergpublishers.com/?TabId=2048&v=1857627
I edited and designed the experimental journal in art/aesthetics in management/organization: we did 6 issues. I published one article in issue 2, a PDF version is available below (as the journal issue is not longer in print).
vickeryavantgarde.pdf
I was a director (with Ian King and Ceri Watkins of Essex Management Centre) of The Aesthesis Project, which ran the journal, and also organised international conferences every two years -- The Art of Management and Organization Conference. They were at: King's College London (2002); ESCP-EAP/Pompidou Centre, Paris (2004), the Pedagogiczna, Krakow (2006), and then the Bannf Centre, Canada (2008): the first paper below was a plenary address I gave at the King's College conference; the second was for a stream at the Krakow conference.
Art&thePoliticsofAdministration
UrbanAestheticOrganization
I have been reviews editor and regular contributor of the Art and Architecture Journal for the last few years. Here's one such peice, on the new Biochemistry building at Oxford University.
aaj68-69_p50-53_salt_bridges.pdf
http://www.artandarchitecturejournal.com/
See:
'Richard Woods: New Build', Art and Architecture Journal 63, Autumn 2005.
'Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier's Outhouse', Art and Architecture Journal 65, Spring 2006.
'Interview with Robert Wilson: Robert Wilson at the Gunpowder Park',
Robert Wilson at the Gunpowder Park
Finally - I keep a visual log of my excursions, investigating the cultural content of our public spaces: here are a few quotations from that log.
publicartspaces.pdf
