Today marks the publication of “Spots, Forms & Methods in Arte Agora”. This is the second book I’ve created with Shawn-Laree O’Neil on street art.
It is where outsider artists meet street artists, outside. Interaction with a confluence of other public actors—municipal buffers, national advertisers, construction workers, scaffold assemblers, and passersby—creates synchronous and asynchronous dialogue in places of density. This book builds on the publication of Arte Agora in May 2019, where we first defined the term and laid out examples that pulled together seemingly separate artistic practices.
Collected here, and described in detail, are the places, pieces and techniques used by practitioners of Arte Agora. Arte Agora is art that happens outside, in the marketplace, with human transaction and constant renewal at its core. It is the foundation for a constant conversation among these actors. We’ve worked to define the terms that make up this emerging field, listing and providing recent examples of the practice.
