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Book SynopsisMartino Stierli is Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, USA. He was previously SNSF Professor for the History of Architecture & Art at the Art History Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Mechtild Widrich is Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Department for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Trade ReviewMarking out a knowingly complex field of contemporary scholarship on 'participation' in art and architecture, this volume is testament not only to the multiple valences of the term - artistic, social, political, civic, urban, economic, and more - and the distinct contexts in which participatory acts and forms of agency have appeared or been strategically mobilized, but also of the term’s rich and ongoing potential as a critical and artistic lens. Inviting us to continue to 'think' through participation, it will be a welcome addition to contemporary debates on the ethical and political dimensions of art and architecture. * Felicity D Scott, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Program in Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices in Architecture, Columbia University, USA *
Intervening in vibrant debates on participation in the public sphere,
Participation in Art and Architecture ranges widely over continents and cases: Sarajevo under siege, Sao Paulo between moving bodies and opened urbanism, the Acropolis and architectural erotics, Google Street View, Cairo, Mexico, and various European and American heterotopias. Tactics are examined in exhilarating historical detail, as theatrical and performative possession converts the spaces of the state into sites of contestation, and as design from the bottom up, immaterial labor, and theaters of memory are mobilized by users on the ground. This provocative collection hybridizes the disciplinary concerns of art and architecture, enriching them both. * Caroline A. Jones, Professor of Art History, History Theory & Criticism of Architecture & Art Program, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, USA *
Table of ContentsList 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
