Title: Notes on Participatory Art: Toward a Manifesto Differentiating It from Open Work, Interactive Art and Relational Art.
Author: Almenberg, Gustaf
Publisher: Authorhouse UK
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.53d
Product Weight: 0.56 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452099286

We are living in the Age of Participation. Social media are exploding, customer cooperation is sought in product development, and customer content is even built into media. But where is the art reflecting our times? Where are the artists making this kind of art? Who were their predecessors? In this book the author traces the roots of Participatory Art from Duchamp, Mondrian and Moholy-Nagy via less well known artists like Lygia Clark and Charlotte Posenenske as well as via better known artists like Joseph Beuys and yvind Fahlstr m to contemporary artists showing an interest in participation like Olafur Eliasson and Antony Gormley. "Participation is the most important thing that has happened in art" Gormley said in 2009. What, then, is Participatory Art? After around 40 years of practice the author tries to distill the essential principles in 10 suggestions for a Manifesto. Most central is its focus on the unfolding creative moment itself and on the creativity of the spectator.

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