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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... production but reception also are now individual acts . The solitary absorption in the work is the adequate mode of appropriation of creations removed from the life praxis of the bourgeois , even though they still claim to interpret ...
... production . But such production is not to be understood as artistic production , but as part of a liberating life praxis . This is what is meant by Breton's demand that poetry be practiced ( pratiquer la poésie ) . Beyond the ...
... production lines , where a number of people engaged in symbolically charged but ultimately undefined activities . In Weapon Production ( 1995 ) , part of the group show RAM held in a Copenhagen suburb , a handful of young immigrants ...
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS | 13 |
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS018 | 18 |
Umberto Eco The Poetics of the Open Work 1962020 | 20 |
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