Searching for art's new publics / edited by Jeni Walwin.

Contributor(s):

Walwin, Jeni

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2010.Description: 224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cmISBN:

9781841503110 (pbk.)
1841503118 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701.1 ELK

Summary: Drawing on contributions from practising artists, writers, curators and academics, Searching for art's new publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences, remarking on the fine line between the experience of being inside or outside the work.--Cover, p. [4].

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	701.1 ELK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100477273

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Drawing on contributions from practicing artists, writers, curators, and academics, Searching for Art's New Publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences--from passers-by encountering and participating in the work unexpectedly, to professionals from other disciplines and members of particular communities who bring their own agendas to the work. Bridging the gap between practice and theory, this exciting book touches on issues of relational aesthetics, but also offers an illustrated artist-based approach. Searching for Art's New Publics will appeal to students studying fine art (especially those with an interest in cross-disciplinary work and public art) and those studying curating.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Drawing on contributions from practising artists, writers, curators and academics, Searching for art's new publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve, create and engage with new and diverse audiences, remarking on the fine line between the experience of being inside or outside the work.--Cover, p. [4].

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. 7)
Preface (p. 9)
Introduction (p. 11)
Keynote Essay: Don't Look Now! Art after the Viewer and beyond Participation (p. 15)
Part I Participation: Open or Closed (p. 31)
Chapter 1 The Anatomy of a Participatory Project (p. 33)
Chapter 2 Interview with Artist Chris Evans (p. 47)
Chapter 3 Case Study One: Adam Dant's Operation Owl Club (p. 57)
Chapter 4 Who Speaks? Who Listens? Het Reservaat and Critical Friends (p. 67)
Chapter 5 Tell Me Your Story: An Interview with Artist Harrell Fletcher (p. 79)
Part II Sonic Openness (p. 91)
Chapter 6 Open Sounds: On the Track of the Dissolving Audience (p. 93)
Chapter 7 Eagles are the Best: Juneau Projects in Conversation (p. 105)
Chapter 8 Case Study Two: Melanie Pappenheim in Reading (p. 117)
Part III The Emancipation of the Spectator: The Viewer Completes the Circuit (p. 125)
Chapter 9 Headless in Hirschhorn's Classroom (p. 127)
Chapter 10 Linked (p. 139)
Chapter 11 London Fieldworks: Polaria and Little Earth (p. 145)
Part IV The Art Object Reaches Out: Dissolves, Embraces (p. 157)
Chapter 12 A Fair Event: Considering an Action by Nina Beier (p. 159)
Chapter 13 Case Study Three: Gillian Wearing - Family History (p. 169)
Chapter 14 An Audience withà (p. 177)
Chapter 15 Bata-ville: We Are Not Afraid of the Future (p. 187)
Chapter 16 Co-productive Exhibition-making (p. 199)
Contributors' Biographies (p. 211)
Index (p. 217)
Credits (p. 222)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jeni Walwin is an independent curator and writer. Among current projects, she is the director of the public art programme Artists in the City and for many years has worked for the Contemporary Art Society.