TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bala,Sruti
TI  - The gestures of participatory art /Sruti Bala
SN  - 9781526107695
AV  - N7433 .G478 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - Interactive art
KW  - Community arts projects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Gestures of institutional critique --; On the inconvenient means and ends of participation --; Unsolicited gestures of participation --; Vicarious gestures of participation --; Delicate gestures of participation --; Conclusion: between image, act, body and language; 2; b
N2  - Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art insists that the concept of participation must be re-imagined and shifted onto other registers. Moving from reflections on institutional critique and impact to concrete analyses of moments of unsolicited, delicate participation and refusal, the book examines a range of artistic practices from India, Sudan, Guatemala and El Salvador, the Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a way of theorising participatory art, situating it between the visual and the performing arts, as both individual and collective, both internal attitude and social habitude
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