'Participation in art has become a prevalent and contested phenomenon since the 1990s. Artists have increasingly sought to create situations and events that invite spectators to become active participants, in dialogue both with their context and with each other. This reader charts a historical lineage and theoretical framework for this tendency, presented through the writings of artists, curators and philosophers from the late 1950s to the present.' (Back cover)
Participation is one of the Documents of Contemporary Art series, co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Other sourcebooks of the same series are also available in the Archive. For more details, please go to this page.
Documents of Contemporary Art
Onsite
English
2006
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anthology
Introduction: Viewers as Producers - Claire BISHOP
Theoretical Frameworks
The Poetics of the Open Work, 1962 - Umberto ECO
The Death of the Author, 1968 - Roland Barthes
The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-garde, 1974 - Peter Bürger
The Inopertaive Community, 1986 - Jean-Luc NANCY
Poetics of Relation, 1990 - Edouard GLISSANT
Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm, 1992 - Félix Guattari
Problems and Transformations in Critical Art, 2004 - Jacques RANCIERE
Artists' Writings
Towards a Situationist International, 1957 - Guy Ernest DEBORD
Notes on the Elimination of the Audience, 1966 - Allan KAPROW
Dance in My Experience, 1965-66 - Helio OITICICA
Letters 1968-69 - Lygia CLARK, Helio OITICICA
Project for the Experimental Art Series, Rosario, 1968 - Graciela Carnevale
Report of a Day's Proceedings at the Bureau for Direct Democracy, 1972 - Joseph Beuys and Dirk Schwarze
I Am Searching for Field Character, 1973 - Joseph Beuys
Ten Appearances, 1986 - Collective Actions
Notes on Funk, I-II, 1983-85 - Adrian PIPER
On Democracy, 1990 - Group Material
Transnacionala/ A Journey from the East to the West, 1996 - Eda CUFER
The Baudouin/ Boudewijn Experiment: A Deliberate, Non-Fatalistic, Large-Scale Group Experiment in Deviation, 2000 - Carsten HOELLER
The Battle of Orgreave, 2002 - Jeremy Deller
No Ghosts in the Wall, 2004 - Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA, ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช
24h Foucault, 2004 - Thomas Hirschhorn
Critical and Curatorial Positions
Relational Aesthetics, 1998 - Nicolas BOURRIAUD
Social Aesthetics, 1999 - Lars Bang LARSEN
What is a Station?, 2003 - Molly NESBIT, Hans Ulrich OBRIST, Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA, ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช
Chat Rooms, 2004 - Hal FOSTER
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