scholarly journals Injection versus Extraction

Athanor ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Yue Ren
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Art And Activism ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Socially Engaged Art (SEA) is a conventional yet emerging phenomenon at the broadest level. On one hand, art practices stimulated by and generated from social issues have taken a vital role along the development of modern and contemporary art, as we can now hardly indicate a single artwork that stands by its pure aesthetics; such situation only intensifies in the era of globalization, urbanization and information-explosion. On the other hand, while clusters of art practices appropriating and rebinding the social reality, a much longer list of analogous terminologies including public art, community art, participatory art, and activism art, are still enriching and complicating the concept SEA in the realm of interdisciplinary scholarship.

scholarly journals Humanistic Education to Foster Altruistic Communities through Arts & Culture

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harian Cho
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Outdoor Activity ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Humanistic Education ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Practice Community

Twentieth-century education was focused on knowledge transmission, skills and integration into society. This tradition often neglected the teaching of morals and altruism, which derive from collectivism, individualism, and social issues. However, community-building through shared experienced, empathy and responsibility are supremely important values that help to overcome many challenges in today’s world. Socially engaged art has already a good practical track record: it has been playing a significant role in fostering altruistic communities for the last twenty years. Socially engaged art is a practical outdoor activity that has proactive, educational and moral value. It is carried out by activists, community builders and some of teachers in the field. In this article I review several projects in socially engaged art in modern Republic of Korea that focus on creativity, empathy, recycling and social responsibility. These projects highlight the value of socially engaged art and its potential for taking education outdoors and bringing communities together. Keywords: socially engaged art, social welfare, social practice, community art

Conclusion: between image, act, body and language

2018 ◽  
pp. 136-141
Author(s):  
Sruti Bala
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Participatory Practice ◽  
The One ◽  
Historical Legacies

I have argued throughout this study that participatory art practices need to be understood in conjunction with the anxieties and contradictions that accompany them. Whether or not this is a formally constitutive characteristic worthy of naming as a genre is, in my view, less important than finding ways to account for and be responsive to the questions it poses. This is the place that this study departed from, yet oddly, it also the place it finds itself arriving at. For if this study has inquired into some of the conditions for and articulations of participation in the arts, it has also turned out to be an investigation of the ways in which participation is already circumscribed by the questions we ask of it, such as the social impact of participatory art, or its specific aesthetic features. The frictions in this endeavour will have become apparent to the perceptive reader: on the one hand I attempt to identify commonalities and systematic coherences in a field named as participatory art, and on the other hand I seek to analyse it in terms of its deviations from, and incommensurability with, a systematic narrative, in the emphasis of unruly, subtle, non-formalizable modes of participation. I treat participatory art as an inherited category, looking at its diverse, specific operations, or disciplinary routes and historical legacies. At the same time, I try to alter the terms of received wisdom by extrapolating principles and observations from the confines of one disciplinary arena into another. I search for ways in which affiliation to a given type of participatory practice might be described, only to find that formal coherences are perforated by aspects that exceed those same terms of affiliation. The analysis of participatory art and the conceptualization of participation in and through art thereby become intertwined in complex ways....

Collaborative challenges: Negotiating the complicities of socially engaged art within an era of neoliberal urbanism

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Neoliberal Urbanism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Urban Contexts

This article provides a close and practice-led investigation into the complexities and complicities of politicised collaborative art within an era of neoliberal urbanism. In addressing these complicities from a practice-led perspective, the paper provides a nuanced account of the social functions of art based on critical perspectives relating to issues of urban politics as well as politics of collaboration, participation and representation. Reflecting on experiences with facilitating socially engaged artistic projects in Basel, Monthey and London, I demonstrate the challenges faced when struggling to adhere to the artistic aims of providing transformative experiences, while at the same time working within various neoliberal and institutional constraints and expectations. Rather than succumbing into totalising narratives about how art practices are inevitably instrumentalised as they become part of neoliberal structures, logics and ambitions, the paper emphasises the need to think more carefully about the politics of this practice in terms of how it constantly negotiates and reflects the subtle power relations that exist between artists and their collaborators in urban contexts.

Question Bridge: Black Males: Socially Engaged Art and the Politics of Dialogue

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fruchtman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Media Narratives

Question Bridge: Black Males is a 'trans-media' art project created by Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The artists travelled throughout the United States for four years to engage more than 150 Black men in an intercultural dialogue about identity and representation. These exchanges are part of socially engaged art practices that Grant H. Kester calls "dialogical aesthetics," in which artists adopt a collaborative, process-based approach to facilitate a dialogue within communities. As an artwork that is based on conversation, collaboration and community engagement, Question Bridge offers an opportunity to explore the potential for creative expression to engage social issues and stimulate change. This article uses Kester‘s dialogical aesthetics to examine the relationship between dialogue and identity formation. Drawing on postcolonial theorists Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, as well as Jürgen Habermas‘ conception of the public sphere, I argue that Question Bridge creates an opportunity for transformational dialogues that challenge and ultimately deconstruct dominant stereotypes and popular media narratives.

scholarly journals Shared stakes, distributed investment: Socially engaged art and the financialization of social impact

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Rosamond
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Double Reading ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Social Impact Bonds ◽  
Open School

This article examines the implications of the financialization of social impact and the emerging social impact bonds (SIBs) market for socially engaged art practices. How do SIBs, which allow for investment in social impact metrics, shift the broader contexts through which the value of social impact is understood in art discourses? In the British context, recent projects by Assemble, Open School East and others do important social work, yet echo the logic of the social investment market by outsourcing social impact. Rather than dismissing socially engaged art initiatives as having been recuperated by financialized capitalism, I suggest the need to develop new ways of achieving a double reading of these works as they relate to – and upset the distinctions between – stakeholder and bondholder valuation.

scholarly journals TRANSART. Transactions, Transferences and Transitions in Participatory Art

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
Saioa Olmo Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Transactional Analysis ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Collaborative Art ◽  
Relational Art ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Dialogical Art

This article centres on the exchange of necessities, projections, ways of behaving and of establishing relations, of people involved in participatory art projects and collective artistic practices. For that, we explore how these exchanges happen, thinking about the transactions (from the point of view of the Transactional Analysis), the transferences and counter transferences (from Freudian Psychoanalysis), the concept of “habitus” (of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology) and the transitional phenomena (from Donald W. Winnicott’s theory). We cross these concepts with the artistic fact andspecifically with ways of doing art usually appointed under labels such as Participatory Art, Collaborative Art, Relational Art, Dialogical Art, Community Art, Social Engaged Art, Artivism, New Genre Public Art and Useful Art. We pay attention to artistic practices that specifically put the focusof interest on exploring different possibilities of sociability that let people and collectives make transitions (ideological, practical, emotional, material, relational ones…) from one situation or position to another. We call “Transart” to this kind of artistic practice that works under the idea that art isa human creation that experiment with ways of exchange, that facilitate transits and that can contribute to processes of transformation.

scholarly journals Subjectivation, togetherness, environment. Potentials of participatory art for Art Education for Sustainable Development (AESD)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helene Illeris
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Art Community ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Hill

Through a process-oriented analysis of the participatory art project The Hill this article explores the relevance of participatory art projects for the development of AESD – Art Education for Sustainable Development. Inspired by Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies (2008) the analysis moves through three sub-studies delving into three different aspects of the project. Each sub-study adopts two overlapping analytical ‘lenses’: The lens of a contemporary art form (performance art, community art, and site-specific art) and the lens of a related theoretical concept (subjectivation, togetherness, environment). The aim is to propose art educational ideas and strategies that stimulate students to challenge the current political, economic and environmental situation. Central questions addressed by the article are: How can educators use contemporary artistic strategies to challenge essentialist and opportunistic self-understandings? What is the potential for participatory art forms to explore alternative and more sustainable conceptions of human subjectivity? How can art education work in favour of a sense of interconnectedness between the individual, the social and the environmental dimensions of being? In conclusion, the article proposes art education as a symbolic place for carrying out art-inspired experiments with how to live our lives in more sustainable ways.

scholarly journals Attitude that Matters

Nordlit ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Tiina Purhonen
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Activist Art ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Dialogical Art ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

In this article, I compare the operativity of radical avant-garde and new dialogical art forms from one selected viewpoint. I discuss the issue of the artist's attitude as a significance-producing element in the artwork. For decades, artist-issued interpretation of art has been problematic. Thus it is interesting to question the significance of the strong definition of the artist's attitude, inherent in the theories of the new dialogical art. New dialogical art-forms are for example new genre public art, community art, socially engaged art, public engaged art, littoral art, activist art, dialogical art, and conversational art. In the Finnish discussion, the concept of community art is the one most commonly used.

The Impact of Covid 19 on Pregnant Women and Child Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1367-1373
Author(s):  
Nikhil Sanjay Mujbaile ◽  
Smita Damke
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low Middle Income Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Separation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Child Health ◽  
General Wellbeing

The Covid illness (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly all through the world and has had a drawn-out impact. The Pandemic has done incredible damage to society and made genuine mental injury to numerous individuals. Mental emergencies frequently cause youngsters to deliver sentiments of relinquishment, despondency, insufficiency, and fatigue and even raise the danger of self-destruction. Youngsters with psychological instabilities are particularly powerless during the isolate and colonial removing period. Convenient and proper assurances are expected to forestall the event of mental and social issues. The rising advanced applications and wellbeing administrations, for example, telehealth, web-based media, versatile wellbeing, and far off intuitive online instruction can connect the social separation and backing mental and conduct wellbeing for youngsters. Because of the mental advancement qualities of youngsters, this investigation additionally outlines intercessions on the mental effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Further difficulties in Low Middle-Income Countries incorporate the failure to actualize successful general wellbeing estimates, for example, social separating, hand cleanliness, definitive distinguishing proof of contaminated individuals with self-disconnection and widespread utilization of covers The aberrant impacts of the Pandemic on youngster wellbeing are of extensive concern, including expanding neediness levels, upset tutoring, absence of admittance to the class taking care of plans, decreased admittance to wellbeing offices and breaks in inoculation and other kid wellbeing programs. Kept tutoring is critical for kids in Low Middle-Income Countries. Arrangement of safe situations is mainly testing in packed asset obliged schools. 

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