The Art in Democracy: Public Art as Mediator

Christian Svanes Kolding
4 min readMay 23, 2019
photo credit (crédit photo): olivier blouin

As governments become more authoritarian while technological advances in surveillance at the same time allow business interests to increasingly outmaneuver civilian privacy rights, democracies across the world face ever-growing threats to their viability and in some cases, their very existence. During such a crisis, the vitality of public spaces in city centers becomes critically important.

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Christian Svanes Kolding

Filmmaker, Writer, Artist. My work has been in MoMA. On Medium, I post speculative fiction, humor and the occasional essay. From Copenhagen, lives in LA. 🇩🇰