Photo: Artist Eva Kotatkova
Here is a selection of books, pick those that interest you for the purpose of adding theoretical ideas related to art and participation in your essays and online blogs, websites, etc.
You are also encouraged to pursue your own research under any of following headings: art and participation, socially engaged art, community art, collaborative art, guerrilla art, collaborative art, street art, social interventions, social practice, art therapy, arts and health, arts and disability, or art and education.
C. Bishop, Documents of Contemporary Art: Participation
C. Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
N. Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics
P. De Bruyne and Pascal Glen (eds) Community Art: The Politics of Trespassing
M. de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
C. Doherty, Documents of Contemporary Art: Situation
N. Felshin, But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism
T. Finkelpearl, What we Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
P. Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook
S. Jackson, Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics
A. Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
G.H. Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art
R. Klanten, M. Huber, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansen, Art and Agenda: Political Art and Activism
M. Kwon, One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity
S. Lacy, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
E.G. Levine and S.K. Levine, Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change
C. Mackey, Random Acts of Culture: Reclaiming Art and Community in the 21st Century
C.H. Moon, Materials and Media in Art Therapy: Critical Understandings of Diverse Artistic Vocabularies
B. Parry, S. Medlyn, M. Tahir, Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention
R. Sennett, Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
M. Steedman, Gallery as Community: Art, Education, Politics
N. Thompson and G. Sholette, The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
N. Thompson, Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
D. Tucker, Immersive Life Practices
J.P. Vickery, The Art of the Multitude: Jochen Gerz – Participation and the European Experience.
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