Notes on Participatory Art Toward a Manifesto Differentiating it from Open Work, Interactive Art and Relational Art |
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| Author:
| Almenberg, Gustaf |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4520-9928-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Publisher: | AuthorHouse
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.49 |
Book Description:
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We are living in the Age of Participation. Social media are exploding, customer cooperation is sought in product development, and customer content is even built into media. But where is the art reflecting our times? Where are the artists making this kind of art? Who were their predecessors?
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We are living in the Age of Participation. Social media are exploding, customer cooperation is sought in product development, and customer content is even built into media. But where is the art reflecting our times? Where are the artists making this kind of art? Who were their predecessors?
In this book the author traces the roots of Participatory Art from Duchamp, Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy via less well
known artists like Lygia Clark and Charlotte Posenenske as well as via better known artists like Joseph Beuys and Öyvind
Fahlström to contemporary artists showing an interest in participation like Olafur Eliasson and Antony Gormley.
"Participation is the most important thing that has happened in art" Gormley said in 2009.
What, then, is Participatory Art? After around 40 years of practice the author tries to distill the essential principles in
10 suggestions for a Manifesto. Most central is its focus on the unfolding creative moment itself and on the creativity of
the spectator.