Sign on Visitor Card from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2016
Participation = The act of taking part and being related to a larger whole. Participation can involve teamwork, sharing and collective decision making.
Participatory Art = Participatory art directly engages the audience in the creative process so that they become involved in an event or activity (www.tate.org.uk).
Community Arts = Art is part of a community of relationships within a specific context or locality. Art reaches out to participants who engage and impact its purpose and manifestation. Community art is based in a specific setting, characterised by interaction or dialogue with a community and often involving a professional artist collaborating with people who may not otherwise engage in the arts (www.tate.org.uk).
Art Intervention = An artist’s interaction with an audience or venue/site or space, where the artwork created is often temporary and sometimes is realised as a performative event or communication platform. It often carries an implication of subversion, operating counter to authority, challenging or provoking comment in relation to the context and the expectations of a particular public (www.publicart.ie).
Socially Engaged Art = Socially engaged practice describes art that is collaborative, often participatory, involving people as the medium or material of the work. Socially engaged practice can be associated with activism because it often deals with political issues. Artists who work within this field will often spend much time integrating into the specific community which they wish to help, educate or simply share with (www.tate.org.uk).
Social Practice = Social practice [also called socially engaged art] can include any artform which involves people and communities in debate, collaboration or social interaction. This can often be organised as the result of an outreach or education program, but many independent artists also use it within their work (www.tate.org.uk).
Public Relations = Actions promoting the creation of goodwill and communication between people.
Public Art = Presenting an artwork to a community, or within a public space where other people play a role in the art’s production or participate in relationships that produce art as an object, environment, conversation/interaction, service, etc.
Enactment = acting out, active expression and communication, making a message or experience come alive.
Collaboration = Working together to achieve a common purpose through partnership or team effort.
Situation = a set of conditions, locations, people, moments in time and circumstances as a context for participatory art.
Meaning = The purpose and significance of what is intended to be communicated.
Catharsis = A emotional or physical release that alleviates the symptoms of a condition.
Therapeutic = Producing beneficial effects on body or mind. Enhancing the expressive potential of different locations, spaces and environments.
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