The Gestures of Participatory Art
Seiten
2020
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4812-4 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-4812-4 (ISBN)
The study critically reclaims participatory art beyond its co-option as a fuzzword of neoliberal governance. It examines a range of artistic practices from community theatre, immersive performance and the visual arts in different sites around the world. It offers a refreshing theorisation of participatory art as gesture. -- .
Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award
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, the Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a way of theorising participatory art, situating it between the visual and the performing arts, as both individual and collective, both internal attitude and social habitude. -- .
Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award
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, the Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a way of theorising participatory art, situating it between the visual and the performing arts, as both individual and collective, both internal attitude and social habitude. -- .
Sruti Bala is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam -- .
Introduction
1 The gestures of institutional critique
2 On the inconvenient means and ends of participation
3 Unsolicited gestures of participation
4 Vicarious gestures of participation
5 Delicate gestures of participation
Conclusion: between image, act and language
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 black & white illustration |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 204 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-4812-9 / 1526148129 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-4812-4 / 9781526148124 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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