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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790095603321

Autore

Jackson Shannon

Titolo

Social works : performing art, supporting publics / / Shannon Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011

ISBN

0-429-23946-7

1-283-10592-6

9786613105929

0-203-85289-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 299 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

700.1/03

792.028

Soggetti

Arts and society - History - 20th century

Arts and society - History - 21st century

Arts audiences - History - 20th century

Arts audiences - History - 21st century

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Fine Arts - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; SOCIAL WORKS; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Prologue: Pacing in Public; Chapter 1: Performance, Aesthetics, and Support; Chapter 2: Quality Time: Social Practice Debates in Contemporary Art; Chapter 3: High Maintenance: The Sanitation Aesthetics of Mierle Laderman Ukeles; Chapter 4: Staged Management: Theatricality and Institutional Critique; Chapte 5: Tech Support: Labor in the Global Theatres of The Builders Association and Rimini Protokoll; Chapter 6: Welfare Melancholia: The Public Works of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset; Chapter 7: Unfederated Theatre: Paul Chan Waiting in New Orleans; Epilogue: Dependent Care; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike' - Tom Finkelpearl At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book



makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental art-making. Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson