http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com What is Participatory Art Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:03:08 +0000 http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com en http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/Reconstruction-of-the-Tower-of-Babel http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/Reconstruction-of-the-Tower-of-Babel Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:03:08 +0000 What is Participatory Art 2509855 <img src="http://payload10.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/2509855/babelmau2 photo s.jeeanah_460.jpg" width="460" height="345" width_o="1772" height_o="1329" src_o="http://payload10.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/2509855/babelmau2 photo s.jeeanah_o.jpg" data-mid="12663402" border="0" align="left"/> In Reconstruction of the Tower of Babel, Swiss artist Nikunja challenges the idea that a multitude of cultures and languages is an obstacle for reaching the truth. By inviting people all over the world to send a brick, on which they are encouraged to paint, write and decorate, Nikunja constructed a new tower of Babel. The new institution celebrates and affirms multiculturalism, multi-nationalism, multi-racism and mutli-ideologism, and gives its authority and ownership to each individual. In the artist's words, "... one actually needs the foreign, the unknown, existentially, to realise one's own Self. For at that moment, Love appears, Joy appears, unquestioned and beyond reason, as an existential fact." http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/Print-Altar-at-Herron-School-of-Art-and-Design http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/Print-Altar-at-Herron-School-of-Art-and-Design Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:37:10 +0000 What is Participatory Art 2147580 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/2147580/6242636344_825805b8ff_z.jpeg" width="414" height="640" width_o="414" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/2147580/6242636344_825805b8ff_z_o.jpeg" data-mid="10715812" border="0" align="left"/> Since the installation of the platform almost a year ago, students in Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis have been contributing to this evolving piece at the school's print shop the Print Altar. Brian Gonzales, creator of the platform, the work as an opportunity for Herron’s printmaking community to "play the role of author, editor, and observer all at once... the audience no longer relies on a lone artist, an expert gatekeeper of knowledge, to tell them what is valuable or worth knowing." http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/4-33 http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/4-33 Fri, 13 May 2011 02:58:52 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1329761 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1329761/063_01.jpg" width="369" height="284" width_o="369" height_o="284" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1329761/063_01_o.jpg" data-mid="6456052" border="0" align="left"/> The play 4′33′’, by John Cage in 1952, was composed for any instrument, and the score instructs the performer not to play the instrument during the entire duration of the piece throughout the piece. Instead, the piece is meant to be consisted of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/Artist-is-Present http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/Artist-is-Present Mon, 02 May 2011 03:47:27 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1180730 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1180730/Abramovic-ArtistIsPresent.jpg" width="594" height="389" width_o="594" height_o="389" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1180730/Abramovic-ArtistIsPresent_o.jpg" data-mid="5752891" border="0" align="left"/> For the exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present in Museum of Modern Art, Abramović performed in the atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. Through silently breathing and eye-contacting with the artist, participants are challenged to find their presence in the public space. T Magazine recently posted a video of Abramović training the performances at the exhibit and discussing performance art. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/Spatial-Poem-No-1 http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/Spatial-Poem-No-1 Sun, 01 May 2011 22:38:57 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1329863 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1329863/img003_460.jpg" width="460" height="255" width_o="716" height_o="398" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1329863/img003_o.jpg" data-mid="6456481" border="0" align="left"/> Artist Mieko Shiomi began Spatial Poems series in 1965, and in this piece, she asked artists world-wide to participate in an event and send the documentation back to her. The documentation called for minimal actions from the participators, such as to write a few words on a postcard and mail it to her. For each documentation she received, she put a flag on the map with a few words that described the event. Over the time, the map was crowded with events and displayed interesting patterns of where artists concentrate. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/The-Gift http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/The-Gift Sun, 01 May 2011 22:35:42 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1368079 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1368079/3268891574_33dbcf9b14_460.jpg" width="460" height="345" width_o="500" height_o="375" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1368079/3268891574_33dbcf9b14_o.jpg" data-mid="6650412" border="0" align="left"/> The Gift was created by German conceptual artist Jochen Gerz. During the exhibit at SFMOMA, Gerz set up a photo studio on the third floor of the museum landing, where visitors were invited to have a black-and-white headshot taken. The headshots were then printed, framed and given to the participators. Unexpectedly, each participator was given a portrait of someone else to display at home or offices. The act of exchange not only reinforced the name of the exhibit and extended the wall of the museum, but also posted the question: who is the real receipts of “the gift”? For more information, click here. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/communimage http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/communimage Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:54:10 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1329794 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1329794/Screen shot 2011-04-19 at 11.39.17 AM_460.png" width="460" height="341" width_o="811" height_o="602" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1329794/Screen shot 2011-04-19 at 11.39.17 AM_o.png" data-mid="6456208" border="0" align="left"/> Artists Teresa Alonso Novo, tOmi Scheiderbauer, Malex Spiegel, Looks Brunner, and Dani Gómez Blasco of the pan-European collective c a l c (casquire atlantico laboratorio cultural), together with artist Gees, developed communimage in 1999. Visitors of the website are encouraged to upload pictures, which were automatically put to a grid system based on the meta information each picture had, such as the country of origin and color. Zooming into the image, the relationship between each facet and the whole is subtle but intriguing. Each So far, 26,529 images have been submitted by 2,309 contributors from 92 different countries. The whole image, if were printed out, would be 14 meters tall and 11 meters wide. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/Learning-to-Love-You-More http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/Learning-to-Love-You-More Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:22:56 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1296958 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1296958/Fletcher and July-Learning to love you more_460.jpg" width="460" height="306" width_o="500" height_o="333" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1296958/Fletcher and July-Learning to love you more_o.jpg" data-mid="6280744" border="0" align="left"/> In Learning to Love You More, artists Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July gave creative assignments to participants via the website, and the participants followed simple instructions and submitted documentation to be posted online. Experiential work was especially welcomed to the project. The originally web-based project has led to a series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts all over the world. From the start of the project in 2002, to when it ended at 2009, over 8,000 people submitted photographs, texts and videos. The image above is from Assignment #63: Make an encouraging banner. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/Circle-of-Confusion http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/Circle-of-Confusion Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:17:00 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1296932 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1296932/hadjithomas and joreige-circle of confusion.jpg" width="448" height="299" width_o="448" height_o="299" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1296932/hadjithomas and joreige-circle of confusion_o.jpg" data-mid="6280661" border="0" align="left"/> The Lebanese filmmakers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige produced Circle of Confusion, an aerial view of Beirut after the civil war, cutting into 3,000 tessellated sections and attached to a gigantic mirror. Each of the 3000 fragments was numbered and stamped “Beirut does not exist”. As the viewers were encouraged to take away the pieces, the image slowly disappeared and was to question the representation of the city and the erases of memory about the civil war and to push the viewers to see themselves as part of that process. The co-existing mirror and the remaining image, until the last fragment was taken, paralleled the intersection of the past and the present, and reflected the natural process of forgetting. Click here to read more about the project. http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/El-tendedero http://www.whatisparticipatoryart.com/following/whatisparticipatoryart.com/El-tendedero Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:09:58 +0000 What is Participatory Art 1296912 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1296912/Mayer-Eltendedero_460.jpg" width="460" height="308" width_o="557" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/94123/1296912/Mayer-Eltendedero_o.jpg" data-mid="6280565" border="0" align="left"/> Mónica Mayer installed El tendedero (The Clothesline) in 1978. She asked some 800 women to fill in the blank in the following statement, writing their answers on pink slips of paper: "As a woman, what I detest most about Mexico City is ____." Their responses, which mostly referred to sexual aggression and harassment, were clipped to clotheslines in the gallery, forming a wall more than 11 feet wide and six feet tall. The action of clipping their statements to the clotheslines resembled those women's daily activity of hanging clothes among other housework, yet the purpose of the action here was drastically different than serving or facilitating--it was confronting.