ABSTRACT

Art matters. It affects us in our daily lives and is full of meanings that are valuable to all of us. As a catalyst for social interactions, art may either cause public conflict and create dissensions or facilitate mutual understanding and strengthen collective bonds. All of this is grounded in practices that develop and change along social interaction, cultural dynamics, as well as technological and economic lines.

So how is art formed and produced? What are the relevant constraints and challenges that artists experience in the creative process? And what constitutes artistic agency? This collection of contributions from international, interdisciplinary experts explores particular case studies to deeply analyse artistic practices. Comprising eleven chapters relating to different art forms, each chapter offers an original perspective conveying a comprehensive understanding of artistic practices as arrays of specific activities in contemporary art worlds.

This book will be important for both researchers and practitioners in the field. It will help artists to deepen their analytical abilities, enabling them to further their own creative practice. It will allow students and researchers to gain insights into processes of artistic creation and thus into the reproduction of art, as well as innovation in the arts.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part I|51 pages

Part I

chapter 2|15 pages

Art bundles

chapter 3|12 pages

Practices of contemporary art

A pragmatic approach to a new artistic paradigm

chapter 4|12 pages

Artistic practices as gendered practices

Ways and reasons

part II|123 pages

Part II

chapter 7|21 pages

The knowing body-in-action in performing arts

Embodiment, experiential transformation, and intersubjectivity

chapter 10|15 pages

Art installation as knowledge assembly

Curating contemporary art

chapter 11|14 pages

The intricacies of street art learning

A sociological explanation