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Title

Practicable : from participation to interaction in contemporary art / edited by Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen ; with the collaboration of Nathalie Delbard and Larisa Dryansky.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Bianchini, Samuel
• Verhagen, Erik
• Delbard, Nathalie.
• Dryansky, Larisa.

Description

xv, 930 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created participatory works since the 1950s. In this book, critics, writers, and artists offer diverse perspectives on this kind of "practicable" art that bridges contemplation and use, discussing and documenting a wide variety of works from the last several decades. The contributors consider both works that are technologically mediated and those that are not, as long as they are characterized by a process of reciprocal exchange. The book offers a historical frame for practicable works, discussing, among other things, the emergence and influence of cybernetics. It examines art movements and tendencies that incorporate participatory strategies; draws on the perspectives of the humanities and sciences; and investigate performance and exhibition. Finally, it presents case studies of key works by artists including and offers interviews with such leading artists and theoreticians as Claire Bishop, Thomas Hirschhorn, Matt Adams of Blast Theory, Seiko Mikami and Bruno Latour. Numerous illustrations of artists and their works accompany the text" -- From the publisher.

Series Statement

Leonardo

Uniform Title

Leonardo book series.

Subject

• Interactive art
• Interactive art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 809-848) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction : Practicable: art in the conditional / Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen -- I. From cybernetics onward : Gordon Pask's cybernetic systems: conversations after the end of the mechanical age / Margit Rosen -- The artist as homo arbiter formae: art and interaction in Jack Burnham's systems essays / Luke Skrebowski -- Two decades of interactive art: digital technologies and human experience / Simon Penny -- II. Art scenes and movements in search of participation : Against the spectacle: the construction of situations / Vanessa Theodoropoulou -- From program to behavior: the experience of Arte Programmata in Italy, 1958-1968 / Emanuele Quinz -- "The breath is up to you": on some works by Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, and Lygia Pape / Glória Ferreira -- À la recherche d'un nouveau spectateur: the function and significance of play in the participatory environments of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel / Marion Hohlfeldt --^
• Katsuhiro Yamaguchi: performances and environments / Christophe Charles -- Tactical media and the aesthetics of participation / Eric Kluitenberg -- III. From the vantage point of the humanities and social sciences : Echoes of pragmatism in current artistic practices / Jean-Pierre Cometti -- Art/anthropology interventions / Arnd Schneider -- Habitable: spectator participation in everyday life / Anna Dezeuze -- From the practice of roles to the facts of consciousness: art and its qualities / Pierre-Damien Huyghe -- Collaborating and participating: a connection worth examining / Véronique Goudinoux -- Public operation: net art, sociology, and practicable media / Jean-Paul Fourmentraux -- The contractual definition of the work of art: a contribution to the discussion of the dispositif in art / Judith Ickowicz -- IV. Art in action: on performance : Why participate?: On the concrete experience of participatory performances / Katrin Gattinger --^
• Haptic vision: the female body and "practicable" art / Giovanna Zapperi -- Traveling microbus hordes: a mobile audience / Diedrich Diederichsen -- Demo n.0 / Peter Lunenfeld -- V. Bringing about interaction, grasping, and seeing: exhibiting practicable works of art : Toward a dramaturgy of interactivity / Jean-Louis Boissier -- Stop, drop, and roll with it: curating participatory media art / Sarah Cook -- Taking hold of images: some thoughts on the free handling of photographs in contemporary art / Nathalie Delbard -- VI. Some key works: case studies : Robert Rauschenberg's Oracle: "a laboratory for testing perceptions" / Christophe Leclercq -- Lygia Clark's Caminhando / Anna Dezeuze -- Charlotte Posenenske: mimetic minimalism and practicability / Renate Wiehager -- The artwork as password: on some pieces by Piotr Kowalski / Jean Christophe Bailly -- Robert Morris's Bodyspacemotionthings : participation reenacted / Catherine Wood --^
• "Therapeutic" participation: on the legacy of Bruce Nauman's Yellow room (triangular) and other works / Janet Kraynak -- Welcome!: On Dan Graham's Opposing mirrors and video monitors on time delay / François Parfait -- On cruelty in art: Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0 / Gilles Froger -- Viewer-instrumented play: Very nervous system by David Rokeby / Jean Gagnon -- When objects speak in images: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless vehicle project as an instrument of public discussion / Christophe Domino -- Reflections on Jeffrey Shaw's Golden calf / Daniel Pinkas -- Janet Cardiff's Walks / Andrea Urlberger -- The gravity of art: on Carsten Höller's Untitled (Slide), 2011 / Madeline Schwartzman -- Exhibiting the museum: the hybrid spaces of workspace unlimited / Dominique Moulon -- VII. Words from artists and theoreticians: interviews : "Creating a living responsive environment" / Julie Martin interviewed by Christophe Leclercq --^
• The action is the original / Franz Erhard Walther interviewed by Erik Verhagen -- From interaction to public authorship / Jochen Gerz interviewed by Marion Hohlfeldt -- In search of relational art / Piero Gilardi interviewed by Emanuele Quinz -- "Open fields of enactment" / Peter Weibel interviewed by Marion Hohlfeldt -- Reading beyond interactivity / Masaki Fujihata interviewed by Dominique Cunin and Mayumi Okura -- "Form is a position" / Thomas Hirschhorn interviewed by Eddie Panier -- Observational practice: a conversation on rhythm, pace, and crowd interaction / Jordan Crandall interviewed by Anna Zeitz -- "Is there a revolution?" / Rirkrit Tiravanija interviewed by Chantal Pontbriand -- "A direct dialogue with one's own perception" / Seiko Mikami interviewed by Hiroko Myokam -- Everything is sculpture / Ernesto Neto interviewed by Glória Ferreira -- Out of control / Rafael Lozano-Hemmer interviewed by Alberto Sánchez Balmisa --^
• Blast theory: playing with publics / Matt Adams interviewed by Frédérik Lesage -- "The granularity of participation" / Usman Haque interviewed by Valérie Châ̂telet -- Critical design: art and politics of public spaces / HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) interviewed by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux -- Exhibiting the visitor / Lawrence Malstaf interviewed by Dominique Moulon -- "I see each of my works as a tool" / Jeppe Hein interviewed Frederik Schikowski -- Composing the political arts: on the modes of being of artworks and their public / Bruno Latour interviewed by Samuel Bianchini and Jean-Paul Fourmentraux -- "Use is almost meaning in three dimensions" / Nicolas Borriaud interviewed by Larisa Dryansky -- "The myth of the active subject" / Claire Bishop interviewed by David Zerbib.

ISBN

• 9780262034753 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262034751 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2016008327

OCLC

• 945549955
• SCSB-10413463

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library