Dear List,
Further to our debate a while ago about sensible writing across
contemporary and new media concerning participation or interaction,
here is a new book I just received:
O'Neill, Paul (ed.) (2007) Curating Subjects. London: Open Editions.
There's a few interesting references to laboratories, and some sensible
comment on Bourriaud, inc luding Mick Wilson, and Claire Docherty, who
is quoted below:
“Consequently, curatorial initiatives which seek to engender such
interactions must begin to unpack the terminologies we use to
distinguish one project from each other. For example, those artists who
invite participation, often through a complicit engagement with their
subject, but who essentially remain signatories of their work (Thomas
Hirschhorn, Phil Collins, Santiago Sierra), from those who embed
themselves withing the social fabric of the city through intervention
(Ffancis Alys, Minerva Cuevas, Roman Ondak), from those who work
collaboratively effecting a kind of ‘social sculpture’ (Superflex,
Wochenklassur).”107
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