Participation in Art and Architecture

ISBN: 9781784530303 出版年：2015 页码：346 Martino Stierli Mechtild Widrich Bloomsbury Publishing

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 wiIn the 21st Century, since the revolutionary unrest of the 1960s, participation in art and architecture has lost its utopian glow and become the focdebate: 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 politics in an era of global capitalisbreaks 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 settiof the revolution in Cairo, art, architecture, and daily life are explored in their participatory dimension.