Description
Book SynopsisSpanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you the viewer - are invited to do it yourself.' -- .
Table of ContentsContents
1. Anna Dezeuze: An introduction to 'do-it-yourself'' artwork
PART I: SITUATING PARTICIPATION
2. Guy Brett: 3 Pioneers
3. Anna Dezeuze: “Open work,” “do-it-yourself artwork,” and bricolage
4. Judith Rodenbeck: “Creative acts of consumption” or, death in Venice
5. Arnauld Pierre: Instability: the visual/bodily perception of space in kinetic environments
PART II: PERFORMING PARTICIPATION
6. Catherine Wood: The rules of engagement: Displaced figuration in Robert Morris’s sculpture
7. Frazer Ward: Marina Abramovic: Approaching zero
8. Amelia Jones: Space, body and the self in the work of Bruce Nauman
9. Janet Kraynak: Tiravanija’s liability
10. Jennifer Gonzalez: The face and the public: Race, secrecy and digital art practice
PART III: THEORISING PARTICIPATION
11. Anna Dezeuze: Play, ritual and politics: Transitional artworks in the 1960s
12. Miwon Kwon: Exchange and reciprocity in some art of the 1960s and after
13. Christian Kravagna: Working on the community: Models of participatory practice
14. Claire Bishop: Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
15. Beryl Graham: What kind of participative system? Critical vocabularies from new media art
Index
