Together these six paradoxes sketch openings for public discourses and spaces. The ultimate failure of the material realisation of Saint George’s Dragon was a failure to instantiate these paradoxes in public space. It was the intention of the work to publically raise important urban problems, which some might prefer not to acknowledge. The project’s termination functions as an example of what Jacques Rancière would call the maintenance of a specific distribution of the sensible, the preservation of the status quo, which is business as usual for City building departments and business improvement organisations. 7 Opening a paradox is the founding act of every real public space and this can only ever be accomplished through ongoing dialogue, debate and struggle. c
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credits: Saint Georges Dragon , 2011-2013. Adrian Blackwell, assisted by Daniel Abad, Chris Wanless, Scott Ling, Emily Lin and Nicolas Roland. The project was commissioned by the Musagetes Foundation.
7 Jacques Rancière. Disagreement , translated by Julie Rose. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 2004. p1-42
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