Abstract
I will examine how artists’ adoption of a social art practice forms part of an improvised, peripatetic and arguably post-organizational artistic cultural tendency that attempts to bring art and art practice outside traditional institutional settings and embed it within the contours of contemporary urban landscapes. The project contextualises iterations of performed and provisional arts practice as a method for making art in the field of distribution. In this paper, I will cite examples of impromptu arts practices; the use of both the improvised and the “impoverished;” and how this signifies a continued turn against the consumption of art as a commodified object. I will also reflect upon the play between artist and audience to circumvent the conventions of larger and less personal public institutions. Procedures that uncover spaces of potential will be examined and in addition artistic practices which critique institutions that define art as ‘art and that have traditionally distributed it, allowing new voices to emerge through dispersed practices, will also be considered. There is cultural and aesthetic value in the encounters discussed; their affective relationship to self will be outlines alongside the blurring of the fictive boundaries between public and private life, and ultimately call them into question. The paper will contextualise the localised examples cited, within the wider field of “unofficial works,” as artistic strategies including work by Kaprow and Fluxus, Brouwn and Laderman Ukeles amongst others. The paper will explore the circumstances in which artists engage, perform, discuss, perceive, and realize such works and what the benefits, effects, consequences and results are for them, the participants (or users) and society at large.
Presenters
Alec ShepleyProfessor of Art & Society / Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, Wrexham University, Wrexham [Wrecsam GB-WRC], United Kingdom
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
"Contemporary Art", " Community", " Community of Practice", " Society", " Encounter", " Provisionality"
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