ParticipationClaire Bishop Art that seeks to produce situations in which relations are formed among viewers is placed in historical and theoretical context in key writings by critics and artists. The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context. Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, Peter Bürger, Jen-Luc Nancy, Edoaurd Glissant, and Félix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Rancière's influential "Problems and Transformations in Critical Art." The book also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. And it features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Copublished with Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
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... death of lovers is one of the mythico - literary figures of this logic of communion in immanence . Faced with this figure , one cannot tell which the communion or the love - serves as a model for the other in death . In reality , with ...
... death - which does not mean that death does not come about in the community : on the contrary , I shall come to this . But communion is not what comes of death , no more than death is the simple perpetual past of community . Millions of ...
... death , in that death that is precisely what is most proper to it and most inalienably its own , it is because the I is something other than a subject . All of Heidegger's research into ' being - for ( or toward ) -death ' was nothing ...
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS | 13 |
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS018 | 18 |
Umberto Eco The Poetics of the Open Work 1962020 | 20 |
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