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By: Susan Jones

The most versatile of artforms, art in the public realm includes permanent works as well as temporary installations and architectural manifestations. The appetite for such work has been enhanced through the Big Art Project that enabled communities themselves to make the running for art projects and nurtured their ambitions and narratives over four years. A record one million viewers were attracted to the resulting Channel 4 programmes broadcast in May.

See, hear Contemporary Art Norwich (CAN), the city's celebration of international contemporary visual art curated by seven partners, runs 11 July - 31 August, taking place entirely outside galleries and exhibition spaces. Argentinean artist Mariano Pensotti's La Marea (24-26 July) operates in real time, moving from pavement to illuminated windows, balconies to café terraces, presenting secret stories and private emotions through fictional scenes in shop windows and on street corners, in which the audience experience actors' thoughts only through projected subtitles. Renowned for their playful, subversive work all over Europe, Office for Subversive Architecture is presenting 13 - A Norwich Beacon (11 July - 31 August). Set in Norwich's historic Tombland, this large-scale fabric Gothic arch celebrates the architectural and historic elements in Norwich, inspired by the city's heritage buildings as well as the architectural history. On the road 11 July - 8 August, Ivan and Heather Morison's Tales of Space and Time is a mobile library in the style of a 1970s Californian house truck made from a converted 1955 Green Goddess. As it journeys around the city, visitors can view hundreds...

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