Participation. Documents of Contemporary Art *
This title explores the desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers. Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational
art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Peter Bürger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Edouard Glissant, Félix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Rancière’s influential ‘Problems
and Transformations in Critical Art’. This anthology also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rirkrit
Tiravanija, and features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
Documents oí Contemporary Art ln recent decades artists have progressively expanded the boundaries of art as they have sought to engage with an increasingly pluralistic environment. Teaching, curating
and understanding of art and visual culture are likewise no longer grounded in traditional aesthetics but centred on significant ideas, topics and themes ranging from the everyday to the uncanny, the
psychoanalytical to the political.
The Documents of Contemporary Art series emerges from this context. Each volunte focuses on a specific subject or body of writing that has been of key influence in contemporary art internationally. Edited
and introduced by a scholar, artist, critic or curator, each of these source books provides access to a plurality of voices and perspectives defming a significant theme or tendency.
For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has offered a public platform for art and ideas. In the same spirit, each guest editor represents a distinct yet diverse approach – rather than one institutional position
or school of thought – and has conceived each volume to address not only a professional audience but all interested readers.
ÍNDEX
Introduction
Theorical frameworks
Artists’ writings
Critical and Curatorial positions
Biography
Index
Ackowledgements
AUTORA: CLAIE BISHOP es una historiadora de arte, crítica, autora y profesora en el Departamento de Historia del Arte en el Graduate Center de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY) desde septiembre de 2008. Bishop es editora de los libros Participation (2006) e Installation Art: A Critical History (2005) y es colaboradora de muchas revistas de arte incluyendo Artforum y October.
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