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A Collective Timeline of Socially Engaged Public Art Practice 1950-2015
(Routledge, 2015-11-19) Cartiere, Cameron; Hope, Sophie; Schrag, Anthony; Yon, Elisa; Zebracki, Martin; Cartiere, Cameron; Zebracki, Martin
A visual timeline of significant contributions to Socially Engaged Practices. All histories are subjective. We cannot hope to fully capture the timeline of socially engaged artworks over the past half- millennium, but we can present a highly subjective one that acts as a starting point for inquiry. In the spirit of the collaborative underpinnings of 'new genre public art' we present selected, intertwined histories chosen by five individuals. These individuals operate from diverse locations within the eld, and their selections reflect varied interests -- from activist to aesthetic, from historical to happenings. While the legacies of socially engaged art stretch back much further, the boundaries for this timeline are 1950 - 2015 to allow for a relatively focused chronology of an already complex and expansive topography
The failure of participation: The demos is in the detail
(Routledge, 2022-08-25) Schrag, Anthony; Cartiere, Cameron; Schrag, Anthony
The Failures of Public Art and Participation
(Routledge, 2022-08-25) Cartiere, Cameron; Schrag, Anthony; ; Cartiere, Cameron; Schrag, Anthony
Introduction
(2022-08-25) Cartiere, Cameron; Schrag, Anthony
Participation Problematises: Together in Violence
(Routledge, 2020-10-19) Schrag, Anthony; Cartiere, Cameron; Tan, Leon
Over the past decades, there has been a deepening relationship between participatory art practices and matters of social justice: this innovative approach to public engagement has resulted in many projects that aim to ameliorate complicated relationships, seek consensus and eradicate conflict. The social realm, however, is constructed of complicated relationships, conflict and dissensus: as Deutsche (1996) suggests - “Conflict, division, and instability, then, do not ruin the democratic public sphere; they are conditions of its existence.” How, then, should participatory practitioners respond to the question of ‘social justice’ when such works are often predicated on eradicating the innate plurality within public, democratic societies? This paper presents new ethical and political understandings of the liberatory possibilities of participation, and gives the practitioners voice a much-needed platform in a field dominated by academic, policy and managerial frameworks. It highlights a lack of universal understanding of what it means (and how) to ‘work with people’ and argues for more — not less — conflict within participatory practices in order to counteract the ‘social engineering’ tendencies of governmental policies, cultural institutions and activist-led practitioners who would instrumentalise the practice in the name of an ill-defined and problematic concept of ‘social justice’.