Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices

Informationen zum Autor Tim Stott is Lecturer in Art History and Art Theory in the School of Creative Arts at Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland and Associate Fellow at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin, Ireland. Klappentext This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or complete the work of art through their play. Here Stott explores the complex and systematic organization of works of ludic participation, showing how these correlate with social systems of communication, exhibition, and governance. At a time when the advocacy of play and participation has become widespread in our culture, he addresses the shortage of literature on the use of play and games in modern and contemporary arts practice in order to begin a play theory of organization and governance. Zusammenfassung This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or complete the work of art through their play. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Precursors to Ludic Participation 2. What Form Does Ludic Participation Take? 3. Ludic Participation as World Art 4. Play Events and Recursive Forms 5. Playgrounds I: Topologies of Form 6. Playgrounds II: Governance and Arts of Contingency Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Tim Stott, Stott Tim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2015
• EAN: 9781138850286
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85028-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, Artificial Intelligence, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Digital, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cybernetics & systems theory, Cybernetics and systems theory