Civic actions : artists' practices beyond the museum / edited by Blair French and Anne Loxley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

French, Blair, editor.

Loxley, Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society.

Social practice (Art).

Arts--Moral and ethical aspects.

Art, Modern--21st century.

Art, Modern.

Artists and community.

Arts.

Physical Description:

231 pages : colour illustrations, colour portraits, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

The Rocks, N.S.W. : Museum of Contemporary Art Limited, 2017.

Summary:

"At a time of increasing inequality and social tension, what role can art play in bringing people together? Can artists working in public spaces shift perceptions and attitudes? Does socially engaged practice inhibit artistic excellence? Civic Actions: Artists' Practices Beyond the Museum delves into these crucial questions, focusing on the intersection of social and public projects, and the possibilities of art practice in public space. This essential publication is international in focus and features formal essays and critiques along with conversational reflections by high-profile artists, curators, academics and cultural practitioners from across Australia, the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North and South America, who work with communities in the public realm."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Culture is the language of the commons / Nato Thomson

Public thinkers; complex contexts / Anne Loxley

Indigenous voices telling untold stories in the public domain: the Eora journey and YININMADYEMI Thou didst let fall / Hetti Perkins

Systems of allowance and remembrance / Brook Andrew

Remembrance, representation and the memorial / Brook Andrew

Memorials of Janet Laurence / Gill Nicol with Janet Laurence

Héctor Zamora's acts of generosity / Ivan Muñiz Reed

Public art, gentrification and spatial justice / Zanny Begg

What does ethical socially engaged practice look like? / Jenny Bisset with Ash Keating, Marco Marcon, Lara Thoms and Michel Tuffery

Michel Tuffery's toolkit for working with community / Michel Tuffery

As if things were different: Theaster Gates' Sanctum in the context of new considerations of cultural value / Claire Doherty

Refusing to feel powerless: on identity politics, artists and institutions in the public domain / Jun Yang

Blind spots: the unhappy public in public art / Amy Spiers

Difficult second record: participatory art after the zeitgeist / David Cross

On documentation, conversation and memory / Blair French

C3West archive / Peter Johnson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-229).

ISBN:

9781921034831

1921034831

OCLC:

961320631

Publisher Number:

13955217