it is in any case very much the aim to...

1. In the highlighted sentence, what is that "AIM" it is talking about? Is it "not to fall into the trap of colonialist and cannabalistic tendencies" or "to begin with the suggested form of artworks or art events"?

Context:

...and that means, as it happens, both a western and European focus. It also implies an emphasis on certain kinds of issues and discourses around those cities at the expense of others in other parts of the world, but the aim is not to circumscribe the discussion by deliberately positioning it regionally in any way. The intention, then, is not to provide some form of comparative survey or representative portrait of sample cities across the globe (or any broad geographical constituency). Apart from being virtually impossible for one person to undertake meaningfully without falling into several obvious traps relating to ‘colonialist’ or, to re-invoke Silverman, cannabalistic tendencies – to say nothing of limited available time in which to conduct credible first-hand research – it is in any case very much the aim to begin with the suggested form of artworks or art events: in a sense to navigate or manoeuvre inside or around the structures they offer in order to identify how they ‘perform city-ness’.