Reclaiming art, reshaping democracy : the new patrons & participatory art

Zhong Mengual, Estelle, (editor.). Douroux, Xavier, (editor.).

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ISBN: 9782840667209
ISBN: 2840667207
Physical Description: print
431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Publisher: Monts, France : Les Presses du Réel, [2017]

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Foreword / Xavier Douroux -- An introduction -- Branches from the same tree / Estelle Zhong Mengual -- 1. Common problems, different solutions. As society, the production of art and new self-relations / Karin Harrasser ; An extended lecture on tree twigs: towards an ecology of aesthetics / Alistair Hudson ; Articulations of artist-initiated organizations / Nato Thompson -- 2. When the artist invites people to participate. Performance, performativity, participation: toward a genealogy of "applied art" / Julia Robinson ; Not an exercise, Remarks on GRAV and the new patrons' protocol / Margit Rosen ; Soundings in the authority of art: the conceptual turn / Patricia Falguières ; The aesthetic welfare / Boris Groys ; The curatorial constellation, durational public art, cohabitational time and attentiveness / Paul O'Neill -- 3. When people invite the artist to participate. An informal conversation on art commissions throughout history / Bruno Latour & Joseph Leo Koerner ; Those who persist, The new patrons' commission in Caudry / Vinciane Despret ; Responding to a commission, A moral and political problem / Émilie Hache ; Beyond institutional critique: artists as a civic workforce / Cameron Cartiere ; Volition's drift, A theory of mediation / Helmut Draxler -- 4. Reinventing art as experiences of democracy. "Because now I would feel authorized to do it ..." / Isabelle Stengers ; Outside the crystal dome: unbinding art from global capital / Malcolm Miles ; Multitudes of art / Frédéric Lordon ; The new patrons or society's auto-affection / Dorian Astor ; Thinking through Dewey / Mary Jane Jacob -- Afterword. For an aesthetics of encounter, Art and individuation / Baptiste Morizot & Estelle Zhong Mengual -- Appendix. The new patrons' protocol / François Hers.