"The city during the industrial revolution was the grand stage set of Marxist politics, and ‘Protest & Survive’ featured not only a fair share of images of street protest, but also work in which the city is explored as a space of slippage and metamorphosis. One of the most powerful examples was the photographic documentation of Valie Export’s street performances from the late 1960s, such as Tap and Touch Cinema (1968), for which the artist invited passers-by to feel her breasts through a box she had constructed. Other, younger, artists chose to represent bookshops, parks and libraries as sites of potential transformation. Such works included a bridge built by Thomas Hirschhorn, which linked the gallery to the radical bookshop next door, literally opening a portal into a utopian space. Rob Pruitt’s Wishing Well (1998-2000) is a fountain built from Evian boxes and was full of the coins of passing strangers. Tariq Alvi’s proposed Poster for a Library (1996) depicted a naked young man with a large erection, reading a book. " - Mark Sladen
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