Participation: (Documents of Contemporary Art) - Softcover

Bishop, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854881476 ISBN 13: 9780854881475

Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery, 2006

Synopsis

Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies.

This title explores the desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers. Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Peter Bürger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Edouard Glissant, Félix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Rancière’s influential ‘Problems and Transformations in Critical Art’. This anthology also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

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Review:

"A rigorous introduction to debates on the relations between art and society, community and collective agency, from the rise of socially based art in the 1960s to the present... What is an authentic concept of contemporary democracy, and how can art address it? What is the social value of participatory authorship, and what are the aesthetic limits of the social turn in art? These are crucial questions today, and this is an inexhaustible resource for those who want to answer them." - Viktor Misiano, Curator and Chief Editor of Moscow Art Magazine "Claire Bishop has distilled an opinionated treasury of analytical writings, empirical narration, and curatorial criticism. Her editorial enterprise results in a volume that lays out key concepts intrinsic to recent participatory art practices and illuminates a cross-section of social dynamics such practices activate and express." - Julie Ault, artist, co-founder of Group Material

Synopsis:

This work includes essays by Roland Barthes, Joseph Beuys, Nicolas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Graciela Carnevale, Lygia Clark, Collective Actions, Eda Cufer, Guy Debord, Jeremy Deller, Umberto Eco, Hal Foster, Edouard Glissant, Group Material, Felix Guattari, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Holler, Allan Kaprow, Lars Bang Larsen, Jean-Luc Nancy, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Helio Oiticica, Adrian Piper, Jacques Ranciere, Dirk Schwarze, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of 20th century art. Published in the "Documents of Contemporary Art" series, this title collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context including essays by Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Peter Burger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Edouard Glissant, Felix Guattari and Jacques Ranciere. The book also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Adrian Piper, Thomas Hirschhorn and Rirkrit Tiravanija, and features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0854881476
• ISBN 13: 9780854881475
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240