Cultures of Participation: Arts, Digital Media and Cultural Institutions

ISBN-13: 9781032177366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Birgit Eriksson; Carsten Stage; Bjarki Valtysson

Opis

This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions. The book will be of interest to academics in the areas of museum studies, media and communications, and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Introduction: Cultures of participation Part I: Participatory art and aesthetics Chapter Two: Performance, public (re) assembly, and civic re-enactment Chapter Three: Autonomy and collectivity at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan Chapter Four: Cross-cultural collaboration: Modes of participation for co-creation of the urban public space Chapter Five: Art and local communities: Inclusion, interests and ownership in participatory art projects with embroiderers and billiard players Part II: Digital media and technology Chapter Six: VR – the culture of (non)participation? Reframing the participative edge of virtual reality Chapter Seven: Photo-sharing as participatory surveillance Chapter Eight: Medialities of participation in sound art Chapter Nine: The participatory patient: Exploring the platformed multivalence and public value of cancer storytelling on social media Part III: Cultural policy and institutions Chapter Ten: The "problem" of participation in cultural policy Chapter Eleven: Public participation and agency in art museums Chapter Twelve: Reordering and re-performing: Re-placing cultural participation and re-viewing well-being measures Chapter Thirteen: Diving into the archive: Google Cultural Institute & the cultural politics of participation

O autorze

Birgit Eriksson is Professor of cultural theory and analysis at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her current research focuses on participatory arts and culture; art and social communities; aesthetics and politics. She is the author or editor of eight books. Recent journal articles include "Forms and potential effects of citizen participation in European cultural centres" (co-au, 2018) and "Are we really there, and in contact? Staging firsthand witnesses of contemporary Danish warfare" (2017).

Carsten Stage is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. His current research focuses on patient participation, affect and social media. Recent publications include the monographs The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media (Emerald, 2018, co-au), Networked Cancer (Palgrave, 2017) and Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect (Routledge, 2015, co-au) and the edited collection Affective Methodologies (Palgrave, 2015, co-ed).

Bjarki Valtysson is associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His current research is focused on cultural participation, digital cultural policy and algorithmic platform societies. He is the author or editor of several books and articles. Recent publications include Media and the Mundane: Communication Across Media in Everyday Life (Nordicom 2016, co-ed), Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction (Palgrave 2018, co-ed) and Digital Cultural Policy: From Politics to Practice (Palgrave, 2020).