Living as form : socially engaged art from 1991-2011 / edited by Nato Thompson.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Creative Time ; Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 259 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cmISBN: - 0262017342
- 9780262017343
- 700.103 THO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A monumental, lavishly illustrated book that offers the first global portrait of a complex and definition-defying genre of cultural production.
Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production--one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice.
Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a thirty-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of color images. The artists include the Danish collective Superflex, who empower communities to challenge corporate interest; Turner Prize nominee Jeremy Deller, creator of socially and politically charged performance works; Women on Waves, who provide abortion services and information to women in regions where the procedure is illegal; and Santiágo Cirugeda, an architect who builds temporary structures to solve housing problems.
Living as Form contains commissioned essays from noted critics and theorists who look at this phenomenon from a global perspective and broaden the range of what constitutes this form.
Contributing authors
Claire Bishop, Carol Becker, Teddy Cruz, Brian Holmes, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Anne Pasternak, Nato Thompson
Living as form / Nato Thompson -- Participation and spectacle: where are we now? / Claire Bishop -- Returning on bikes: notes on social practice / Maria Lind -- Democratizing urbanization and the search for a new civic imagination / Teddy Cruz -- Microutopias: public practice in the public sphere / Carol Becker -- Eventwork: the fourfold matrix of contemporary social movements / Brian Holmes -- Living takes many forms / Shannon Jackson -- Projects. Ai Weiwei ; Ala Plástica ; Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla ; Lara Almarcegui and Begoña Movellán ; Alternate ROOTS ; Francis Alÿs ; Appalshop ; Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle ; Claire Barclay ; Barefoot Artists ; Basurama ; BijaRi ; Bread and Puppet Theater ; Tania Bruguera ; CAMP ; Cemeti Art House ; Paul Chan ; Mel Chin et al. ; Chto Delat? (What is to be done?) ; Santiago Cirugeda ; Cambalache Colectivo ; Phil Collins ; Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade ; Cornerstone Theater Company ; Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann ; Minerva Cuevas ; Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency ; Jeremy Deller ; Mark Dion, J. Morgan Puett, and collaborators ; Marilun Douala-Bell and Didier Schaub ; Election Night, Harlem, New York ; Fallen Fruit ; Bita Fayyazi, Ata Hasheminejad, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Farid Jahangir and Sassan Nassiri ; Finishing School ; Free Class Frankfurt/M ; Frente 3 de Fevereiro ; Theaster Gates ; Alsonso Gil and Federico Guzmán ; Paul Glover ; Josh Greene ; Fritz Haeg ; Haha ; Helena Producciones ; Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter ; Fran Ilich ; Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen ; Amal Kenawy ; Surasi Kusolwong ; Bronwyn Lace and Anthea Moys ; Suzanne Lacy ; Land Foundation ; Long March Project ; Los Angeles Poverty Department ; Mammalian Diving Reflex ; Mardi Gras Indian Community ; Angela Melitopoulos ; Zayd Minty ; The Mobile Academy ; Mujeres Creando ; Vik Muniz ; Navin Production Studio ; Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) ; Nuts Society ; John O\'Neal ; Oda Projesi ; Park Fiction and the Right to the City Network Hamburg ; Pase Usted ; Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy) ; Platforma 9.81 ; Public Movement ; Pulska Grupa ; Pedro Reyes ; Laurie Jo Reynolds ; Athi-Patra Ruga ; The San Francisco Cacophony Society ; The Sarai Programme at CSDS and Ankur ; Christoph Schlingensief ; Florian Schneider ; Katerina Šedá ; Chemi Rosado Seijo ; Michihiro Shimabuku ; Buster Simpson ; Slanguage ; SUPERFLEX ; Apolonija Šušteršič ; Tahrir Square ; Taller Popular de Serigrafía (Popular Silkscreen Workshop) ; Temporary Services ; Torolab ; Mierle Laderman Ukeles ; Ultra-red ; United Indian Health Services ; Urban Bush Women ; US Social Forum ; Bik van der Pol ; Wendelien van Oldenborgh ; Eduardo Vásquez Martin ; Voina ; Marion von Osten ; Peter Watkins ; WikiLeaks ; Elin Wikström ; WochenKlausur ; Women on Waves -- The Leonore Annenberg Prize for art and social change. The Yes Men ; Rick Lowe ; Jeanne van Heeswijk.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York--based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and Becoming Animal (both published by the MIT Press) and curated the MASS MoCA exhibitions they accompanied.