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Art and public space. From site-specific art to the "(un)sitting" of the community. Relational aesthetics and its discontents
Authors: Karaba, Elpida
Papastamou, Valia
Reviewer: Gerogianni, Irini
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What is public in public art? In trying to define this broad genre of public contemporary art, one could draw the genealogy, from what we have already mentioned in the previous chapters, to the radical changes in art of the 1960s and 1970s or to those points that Krauss raises in her idea of "sculpture in the expanded field" concerning the radical way in which spatiality, temporality and embodied experience are introduced in contemporary art. At the same time, the philosophical and political theories of the public (space) and public sphere associated with the turmoils of the contemporary state and democracy find different expressions in pursuits of (public) art with a political agenda, with collectivity, relationality and antagonism as its ingredients. We follow how within this context the morphology of artistic practices and categories is shaped, from installation art and site-specific art to social engagement art and artistic activism. Add to these the particular climate of the late (20th) century associated with the tremors of contemporary democracy, one outlines the adventures of a contested artistic category. Controversial, precisely because it concerns the public sphere. These developments also lead to new conceptualizations of the categories "public" and "commons". Thus, we see examples of the practices of artists who attempt in various ways to engage the public, the public sphere and to definitively converge art and life at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century.
Linguistic Editors: Klada, Nektaria
Graphic Editors: Triantafyllakos, George
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 08-07-2023
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10050
Bibliographic Reference: Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. (2023). Art and public space. From site-specific art to the "(un)sitting" of the community. Relational aesthetics and its discontents [Chapter]. In Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. 2023. Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/10050
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches.
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions