Title & Author:

Participation in art and architecture : spaces of interaction and occupation / editors: Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich.

Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Description:

xiii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

International library of visual culture ; 19

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Whose participation? Introductory remarks / Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich -- The infrastructure of participation : cultural centres in postwar Europe / Kenny Cupers -- Occupied sites : Tlatelolco and Metropol Parasol / Ana María León -- Aesthetics and politics of participation in 1960s Brazil : from Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés to the Paulista School of Architecture / Martino Stierli -- Putting on the map : Suzanne Lacy's International dinner party / Elke Krasny -- Exhibitions in damaged and destroyed architectural objects in besieged Sarajevo : spaces of gathering and socialization / Asja Mandić --City of revolution : on the politics of participation and municipal management in Cairo / Mohamed Elshahed -- Disobedient objects / Gavin Grindon -- Between theatre and agora : thoughts on exhibition, drama and participation / Werner Hanak-Lettner -- 1912 : Hellerau as Spielraum / Lutz Robbers -- Participatory aesthetics : Alexander Dorner's reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover (1923-1926) / Sandra Löschke -- 'The ultimate erotic act' : on the performative in architecture / Mechtild Widrich -- Echo-logy : working with Allan Kaprow / Philip Ursprung -- Documentary (non- )interventions : mediated presence in public space and its artistic reflection / Katja Kwastek.

Summary:

"If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and the Russian Revolution. Politics and aesthetics are still catching up with each other. In the 21st Century, since the revolutionary unrest of the 1960s, participation in art and architecture has lost its utopian glow and become the focus of a fierce debate: does 'participatory' art and architecture shape social reality, or is it shaped by it? Contemporary critics see in participation only technocratic control, while others embrace it as a viable politics in an era of global capitalism. This volume breaks the impasse by looking at how participants themselves exert power, rather than being victimized or liberated from it. From artists hijacking Google Earth to protesters setting up a museum of the revolution in Cairo, art, architecture, and daily life are explored in their participatory dimension."--Publisher.

ISBN:

9781784530303 (hardback)
1784530301 (hardback)
(ebook)
9780857729859

Subject:

Art Philosophy.
Interactive art Philosophy.
Architecture and society.
Social participation.
Social Participation
Art Philosophie.
Architecture et société.
Participation sociale.

Added entries:

Stierli, Martino, 1974- editor.
Widrich, Mechtild, editor.
International library of visual culture ; 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291449
Call No.: BIB 235111
Status: Available