Participation in Art and Architecture: Spaces of Interaction and Occupation

ISBN-13: 9781350297012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str.

Martino Stierli;Mechtild Widrich

Opis

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 innovative book 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.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Whose Participation? Introductory Remarks - Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich Part I: Agency 1. The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centres in Postwar Europe - Kenny Cupers 2. Occupied Sites: Tlatelolco and Metropol Parasol - Ana María León 3. Aesthetics and Politics of Participation in 1960s Brazil: From Hélio Oiticica’s ‘Parangolés’ to the Paulista School of Architecture - Martino Stierli 4. Putting on the Map: Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party - Elke Krasny 5. Exhibitions in Damaged and Destroyed Architectural Objects in Besieged Sarajevo: Spaces of Gathering and Socialization - Asja Mandic 6. City of Revolution: On the Politics of Participation and Municipal Management in Cairo - Mohamed Elshahed 7. Disobedient Objects - Gavin Grindon Part II: Display 8. Between Theatre and Agora: Thoughts on Exhibition, Drama and Participation - Werner Hanak-Lettner 9. 1912 – Hellerau as Spielraum - Lutz Robbers 10. Participatory Aesthetics: Alexander Dorner’s Reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover (1923–1926) - Sandra Löschke 11. ‘The Ultimate Erotic Act’: On the Performative in Architecture - Mechtild Widrich 12. Echo-Logy: Working with Allan Kaprow - Philip Ursprung 13. Documentary (Non-)Interventions: Mediated Presence in Public Space and its Artistic Reflection - Katja Kwastek Author Biographies Index