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Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does active participation affect the viewer’s experience and the status of the artwork? Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you – the viewer - are invited to ‘do it yourself.’Rather than a specialist topic in the history of twentieth- and twenty-first century art, the ‘do-it-yourself’ artwork raises broader issues concerning the role of the viewer in art, the status of the artwork and the socio-political relations between art and its contexts.
Anna Dezeuze is an Honorary Research Fellow in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester
Anna Dezeuze: What the do-it-yourself artwork can do for youPART I: PARTICIPATION IN CONTEXTAnna Dezeuze: “Open work,” “do-it-yourself artwork,” and bricolageJudith Rodenbeck: “creative acts of consumption” or, death in VeniceArnauld Pierre: Instability: the visual/bodily perception of space in kinetic environmentsGuy Brett: 3 PioneersPART II: PERFORMING PARTICIPATIONCatherine Wood: The rules of engagement: Displaced figuration in Robert Morris’s sculptureFrazer Ward: Marina Abramovic: Approaching zeroAmelia Jones: Space, body and the self in the work of Bruce NaumanJanet Kraynak: Tiravanija’s liabilityJennifer Gonzalez: the face and the public: Race, secrecy and digital art practicePART III: ANALYSING PARTICIPATIONAnna Dezeuze: Play, ritual and politics: Transitional artworks in the 1960sChristian Kravagna: Working on the community: Models of participatory practiceMiwon Kwon: Exchange and reciprocity in some art of the 1960s and afterClaire Bishop: Antagonism and Relational AestheticsBeryl Graham: What kind of participative system? Critical vocabularies from new media artIndex