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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stierli, Martino, 1974- editor.

Widrich, Mechtild, editor.

Series:

International library of visual culture.

International library of visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Interactive art--Philosophy.

Interactive art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780755694938

0755694937

9780857727879

0857727877

9780857729859

0857729853

OCLC:

1128164296