Set against the backdrop of the rapidly changing Dutch landscape, this extended essay by prominent University of Amsterdam art historian Jeroen Boomgard explores the varying quality of art in public space. An artwork is defined not only by its own form and iconography but also by the functions and meanings assigned to it by the viewer's expectations. Boomgaard, lector at the Art and Public Space Research Group at the Gerrit Reitveld Academie in Amsterdam, goes in search of works of public art that somehow succeed in escaping the limits of those expectations. The sixth publication in the series from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Tiré du site Internet http://riot-ghent.org/: "Art and architecture project alongside the N16 route. With projects by Tractor (Peter Aerts, Denis Dujardin, Honoré d'O, Lore Perneel, Luc Reuse, Frank Vande Veire, Hugo Vanneste, Dirk Zoete), Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Sarah & Charles, Office Kersten Geers en David Van Severen , Michaël Vanden Abeele, Uaps, Wesley Meuris, Architecten Robbrecht en Daem, Valérie Mannaerts, Philippe Vander Maren, Richard Venlet, Ann Veronica Janssens. Text contributions by Joeri de Bruyn, Maarten Van Acker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Isabelle Makay and Oscar Van den Boogaard. Photograpy by Geert Goiris and Kristien Daem. Initiated by the cities Bornem, Puurs, Willebroek and Mechelen in collaboration with VAi, vlaamsarchitectuurinstituut. www.routen16.be."

Dutch artist Giny Vos (born 1959) has produced installations for public spaces from Apeldoorn to Delhi. Often consisting of thousands of lights or diodes, and using both language and image, Vos' installations are addressed to each of their environments specifically. Singing in the Dark reveals the scope of Vos' work and celebrates the magic of light in art.

Mannaerts, Valérie ; Rosler, Martha ; Sekula, Allan ; Loden, Barbara ; Steyerl, Hito.