Littoral Art
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The term 'Littoral Art' is derived from the root meaning of the word littoral. Littoral is a geographical term that describes the zone; it’s a liminal zone, in-between zone, between the ocean and the land, which is covered at times by ocean and at times bare. The term 'Littoral' is used as a trope or a metaphor to describe artists who work liminally, that is between the institution, museological gallery scene and the public sphere, using that term that the German social philosopher Habermas developed in many of his books and essays. An artist may move back and forth between the gallery museum nexus and the public sphere that is the community or, local context. This term doesn’t necessarily mean that artists disavow the gallery network for artist-run centres. In fact, artists can work within those but move out into the community and back and forth. It’s organic term to describe an in-between zone.
