A journey through Johannesburg via three art projects raises intriguing notions about the constitutive relationship between the city, imagination and the public sphere- through walking, gaming and performance art. Amid prevailing economic validations, the trilogy posits art within an urban commons in which imagination is all-important.

Kim Gurney is a visual artist, journalist and academic. She is a Research Associate at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities and the University of Johannesburg's Visual Identities in Art& Design Research Centre, South Africa. Her own art generally engages invisibilities or disappearance and attempts restorative gestures, and she runs a nomadic offspace for experimental work.

1. Re-imagining Johannesburg2. Curating the Ephemeral City3. Walking the Footloose City4. Playing the Cyborg City5. Performing the Spectral City6. Art and the Uncertainty Principle7. Towards an Art of the Commons8. Living the Everyday City