ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the practice and process of an emplaced social practice arts and issues of participation. It describes the types of placemaking practice based on the degrees of both. The chapter explores the situational turn out of the gallery and in site-specific and participative arts, underpinned by relational and dialogical aesthetics. The situational turn expresses a site-specific tendency, art work responding to, reflecting and exploring 'the temporal and circumstantial context in which it inhibits' simultaneously relinquished to the physical context, directed and formed by it, and acting as an ideological critique of the art sector's institutionalised frameworks with site-specific art linked to the political through its perception as the 'activist branch' of the art sector. As a site-specific and performative artform, social practice placemaking shares its concerns and the text is thus informed by this thinking; the notion of site- and audiences-relation, as problematised here, also arose in data collection and will be addressed accordingly throughout the text.
