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Contemporary European public art often addresses the past and future of European unity, democracy, immigration, and civil rights. The Art of the Multitude explores how participation in art works affects the formation of public memory, the commemoration of historical events, and the creation of an urban landscape that articulates cultural identity and recognition. Looking in particular at the lifetimes work of one of Europes foremost artists of the public realm, German conceptual artist Jochen Gerz, The Art of the Multitude uses a variety of artists works as fulcra for discussing the European experience of war and conflict, peace and reconciliation. And while the artworks discussed and implications thereof are certain to be of interest to art theorists and historians, cultural researchers in policy, public space, and the built environment will all find something to participate in or engage with

On June 8, 1968, the body of Robert F. Kennedy was taken by a funeral train from New York City to Washington DC to be buried in the Arlington cemetery. From a train window, Paul Fusco took photographs of the grieving public lining the route. Since 2014, artist Rein Jelle Terpstra has sought many of the same spectators, and has been collecting their snapshots and film footage of themselves and of the train, for his project "The People's View." Also inspired by the original images of Fusco, artist Philippe Parreno arranged for filming a reenactment of citizens watching the passing of the funeral train