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Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art. This collection is an ideal text for interdisciplinary courses that place visual arts (including design or performance) within social and political contexts.
List of contents
Introduction Prologue: A Typology of Participatory Practices
Section I: Insiders and Outsiders 1. I Live Here! Reflections on Being a Socially Engaged Artist in a Small Community 2. Making Sense of Participation as a Practitioner Through a Nodal Governance Lens
Section II: Infrastructures 4. The Walter Process: An Alternative to the Standard (American) Artworld System 5. Doing The Right Thing? Managerial Ethics in Social Engaged Arts 6.Ethical Consciousness in Collections Management 7.Aesthetics as Ethics: The Politics of Arts-led Rural Reconstruction in Contemporary China
Section III: Roles and Responsibilities 8. Telaplico: The 'Replica' in Detotalising Relations of Exchange 9. The Ethics of the Future: Cultural Emergence 10. The Urgency of Community Engagement: Perspectives From the USA
Section IV: Careful Ethics 11. Critical Ethics and the Pedagogy of Care 12. Ethical Tensions Surrounding Care in Community Arts Organisations 13. Structural Distress: LGBTQ+ Communities in 'Creative Health' and the Limits of Care 14. The Careful Turn: The Problem of Care within Socially Engaged Art Epilogue: The Only Way is Ethics
About the author
Anthony Schrag is artist and researcher based in Scotland. He is a Reader in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh) and the central focus of his work is to explore the role of art in participatory and public contexts. With a specific focus on social conflict, agonism, and ethics, he has exhibited widely, with numerous publications as well as an extensive history of undertaking social practice projects both nationally and internationally. www.anthonyschrag.com
