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PARTICIPATORY ARTS

Participatory arts are those instances of art practice that engage audiences in some way in the conception and realisation of artwork. Although the term itself has seen increasing usage since the 1990s, the roots of such practice can be traced to the European avant-gardes, the participatory politics of feminism and the civil rights movements of the 1960s, or even further back in history. Since they are a part of emancipatory social and artistic traditions, participatory arts are broadly related to attempts at decentralisation, participation of amateurs and non-professionals, decolonisation and overcoming the regime of contemporary art institutions. Such practices thus potentially open and expand art worlds for new knowledge, regimes, aesthetic, political and ethical transformations of social constellations, communities, and spaces of new articulation. Participatory arts can be media-specific, like participatory theatre or visual arts, but they can also be interdisciplinary.

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Claire Bishop - Participation

Bishop, C. (2006). Participation. London: Whitechapel; Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 0-85488-147-6 (Whitechapel), ISBN 0-262-52464-3 (The MIT Press)

Bishop - Artificial hells

Bishop, C. (2012). Artificial hells: Participatory art and the politics of spectatorship. Verso books. ISBN 978-1-84467-690-3

Stickley, Wright & Slade - The art of recovery

Stickley, T., Wright, N. & Slade, M. (2018) The art of recovery: outcomes from participatory arts activities for people using mental health services. Journal of Mental Health, 27 (4): 367-373.

Johanson, Glow & Kershaw - New modes of arts participation and the limits of cultural indicators for local government

Johanson, K., Glow, H., & Kershaw, A. (2014). New modes of arts participation and the limits of cultural indicators for local government. Poetics, 43: 43-59.

François Matarasso - A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters

François Matarasso - A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters

Hannah Ayre - What Does A Participatory Artist Do?

Hannah Ayre - What Does A Participatory Artist Do?

The Experience Sampling Method & Cultural Participation

Karels, A. & C. Arroyo (2023, September). The Experience Sampling Method & Cultural Participation – INVENT Culture

Cvetičanin, Petrić & Koludrović - Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook

Cvetičanin, P.,  M. Petrić & I. Tomić Koludrović (2023). Towards a social turn in cultural policy: A policymaker’s guidebook. INVENT publication.

INVENT Policy Brief I

Janssen, S., Katz-Gerro, T., Rössel, J., Cvetičanin, P.  & M. Verboord (2021). INVENT Policy Brief I. 16 pages.

» NEW! » Woddis - Acting on Cultural Policy

Jane Woddis. (2023). Acting on Cultural Policy: Arts Practitioners, Policy-Making and Civil Society. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. ISBN 978-3-031-11161-7