For 60 years, Americans have pushed steadily into the suburbs, transforming the landscape and (until recently) leaving cities behind. But today the pendulum is swinging back toward urban living, and there are many reasons to believe this swing will continue. As it does, many low-density suburbs and McMansion subdivisions, including some that are lovely and affluent today, may become what inner cities became in the 1960s and ’70s—slums characterized by poverty, crime, and decay.
Artists tell our stories, offer perspective, provocation, and remind us of who we are. In this section we look at the work of artists as they evoke Northeast Ohio and offer viewpoints on our bioregion.
What is our mythology, our poetry, our imagery, our story?
Resources
Cleveland Memory Project
Envisioning Cleveland photo exhibit at the CSU Levin College of Urban Affairs
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Cleveland Complaints Choir
Marc Lefkowitz Says:What’s the point of complaining unless you have an audience, right?
Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints.
Just a sample: “Tram #3 smells like pee. My tights slip when I walk. Why are they cutting down old trees for toilet paper and there’s still never any available? etc.”
Other cities caught on (Birmingham: “The bus at 6:30 isn’t frequent enough, and why does beer cost so much in town?”) to this hilarious and hackles-raising art. Need I say, who complains louder and better than Clevelanders? Ok, so who has a complaint that they want to register in the name of art?
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