“Some of the key themes to emerge throughout these chapters are the tensions between quality and equality, singular and collective authorship, and the ongoing struggle to find artistic equivalents for these political positions. Theatre and performance are crucial to many of these case studies, since participatory engagement tends to be expressed most forcefully in the live encounter between embodied actors in particular contexts. It is hoped that these chapters might give momentum to rethinking the history of twentieth-century art through the lens of theatre rather than painting (in the Greenbergian narrative) or the ready-made) as in Krauss, Bois, Buchloh and Foster’s Art Since 1900, 2005). Further sub-themes include education and therapy: both are process-based experiences that rely on intersubjectivity exchange, and indeed they converge with theatre and performance at several moments in the chapters that follow.”
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Claire Bishop. Artificial Hells:Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. London: Verso, 2012.
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