The gestures of participatory art /
Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art insists that the concept of participation must be re-imagined and shifted onto other registers. Moving from reflections on institutional critique and impact to concrete analyses of moments of unsolicited, delicate participation and refusal, the book examines a range of artistic practices from India, Sudan, Guatemala and El Salvador, Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a way of theorizing participatory art, situating it between the visual and the performing arts, as both individual and collective, both internal attitude and social habitude. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-153) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526100771 1526100770 |