Description
Book SynopsisHow participatory art enabled collaboration between institutions and politicized artists in 1980s New York
Trade Review"Asking the Audience provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the emergence of institutionalized social art practice over the past fifteen years. Adair Rounthwaite's detailed discussion of the role of pedagogy and education also provides important grounding of these projects in broader intellectual trends during the 1980s and early 90s."—Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego
"As a high-definition snapshot of what cultural participation looked like toward the close of the twentieth century, Asking the Audience ultimately invites a deeper consideration of what it means today, at the dawn of the twenty-first."—Panorama
"In her commitment to pursuing archival traces of audience responses, Rounthwaite produces a textured account of a carefully selected set of works." —Postmodern Culture
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Recovering Audience
1. The Politics of Participation
2. The Pedagogical Subject of Participation
3. Photography, Agency, and Participation
4. Art, Affect, Crisis
Conclusion: Participation in the Present
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
