In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.
Large format programme for Hotel Obscura (Vienna performances). In German.
A series of accounts of the eperiences of artists and communities who have come together in contexts not usually seen as arenas for the arts.
This publication charts the the evolution of the relationship between teachers and students, which in turn highlight an alternative way of viewing society.
The first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as ‘social practice’. Follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic.
Grant Kester treats the relationship between art and democracy as pedagogical, performative, and ethical, he revives our understanding of the importance of civic engagement, solidarity, conversation, and public intervention.
This catalogue re-contextualises a series of public projects implemented between 1998 and 2002 within the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Examination of the artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.