ABSTRACT

This volume is an anthology of current groundbreaking research on social practice art. Contributing scholars provide a variety of assessments of recent projects as well as earlier precedents, define approaches to art production, and provide crucial political context. The topics and art projects covered, many of which the authors have experienced firsthand, represent the work of innovative artists whose creative practice is utilized to engage audience members as active participants in effecting social and political change. Chapters are divided into four parts that cover history, specific examples, global perspectives, and critical analysis.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|38 pages

Free Radicals

chapter 1|11 pages

Thin Generosity

Contemporary Social Practice Art and the Rhetoric of Invitation

chapter 3|12 pages

Taking It to the Streets

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 War Is Over! Campaign

part II|59 pages

Agents of Social Change

chapter 4|14 pages

Reframing Resistance and Surveillance

Lorraine O'Grady's Art Is ...

chapter 5|13 pages

Tagging 2.0

Graffiti Research Lab's Opposition Through Open-Source Technology

chapter 6|12 pages

Subversion of Surveillance

Anonymous Street Art, Artivism, and the Use of Social Media

chapter 7|18 pages

What Happens at Burning Man Doesn't Stay at Burning Man

The Social Conscience of the Artist

part III|53 pages

Global Perspectives

chapter 8|12 pages

Art of the Street

Revolutionary Symbols in Egypt

chapter 9|14 pages

Looking to the Past

Street Art, Public Spaces, and Contemporary French Identity

chapter 10|12 pages

See What a Difference a Stay Makes

Hotel Transvaal and Kus & Sloop, Arts Hotels, and Social Entrepreneurship

chapter 11|13 pages

Institutionalizing Protest Art

Agitprop and OFF-Biennále Budapest

part IV|55 pages

Future Forward

chapter 12|11 pages

Eat Me

Social Practice Art and the Politics of Food

chapter 13|12 pages

The DJ as Disruptor

Politics, Participation, and Postproduction in Contemporary DJ Culture

chapter 14|16 pages

Watching the Watchers

Ai Weiwei and the Art of Surveillance