Thirteenth International Conference on The Arts in Society

Abstract

The work aims to study the connection between art and the ever-changing urban landscape and connection to place and space. Understanding the effects of the urbanization process on the imaging and the imagining of a city and using art to more critically and effectively explore the power of such creative control offers varied insight into the current state of the globalized world and possible future trajectories. Using Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space as a theoretical framework, the research studied contemporary Vietnamese artist, Tiffany Chung, and her pieces focusing on current construction of Ho Chi Minh city to gain greater insight into the tangible societal effects of the changing urban landscape and genius loci. While the piece focused on Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam specifically, when variables and place-specific factors are taken into account, the use of local art and the observation of themes and topics present, is applicable around the world for assessing the societal effects and implications of urbanization on the contemporary world stage.