Claire Bishop: 3 books

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous,...

During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold...

由藝術家策劃、群眾來協作 人類對社會系統、存在境遇的另類對峙 一條必須深刻檢視的特殊取徑 參與式藝術對參與者以及觀看者傳達在日常生活裡被壓抑的種種弔詭， 並誘發出變態的、讓人不安的、愉悅的經驗， 讓我們得以重新想像世界以及我們的各種關係。 它既是世界裡的一個事件，同時也脫離世界。 自從1990年代以來，評論家和策展人大抵上都認為，參與式藝術究其極是個政治藝術：他們鼓勵觀眾和藝術家合作，而促進新的解放式社會關係。在世界各地，這種表現形式的捍衛者不可勝數，從諸如格蘭．凱斯特之流的史學家、布西歐和納托．湯普生（Nato...