Author : Sruti Bala
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526107708
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Book Synopsis The gestures of participatory art by : Sruti Bala
Download or read book The gestures of participatory art written by Sruti Bala and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.