Duke University Press | ISBN:0822352893 | File Type: PDF, 440 pages | File size: 31.Mb | Jan. 25th, 2013
Conceptual Art: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation In What We Made Tom Finkelperl examines the activist participatory co authored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art Through a series of fifteen conversations with artists art historians and participant collaborators Finkepearl suggests social cooperation as a meaningf way to recognize this work and provides a political artistic and theoretical framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance Artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively joined at times by colleagues from related fields including social policy urban planning and new media Issues discussed include the experience of working in public working with museums and libraries opportunities for social change the lines between education and art spirituality and collaborative opportunities available with new media Finkelpearl engages Grant Kester and Claire Bishop in conversations about their writing on participatory and dialogic art and also includes interviews with individuals who worked on projects with Mark Dion and Harrell Fletcher In his conclusion Finkelpearl argues that pragmatism offers a deeper understanding of the experiential nature of social cooperation and applies this to a discussion of Houston s roject Row Houses Interviewees Naomi Beckwith Claire Bishop Tania Bruguera Brett Cook Teddy Cruz Jay Dykeman Wendy Ewald Sondra Farganis Harrell Fletcher David Henry Gregg Horowitz Grant Kester Mierle Laderman Ukeles edro Lasch Rick Lowe Daniel Martinez Lee Mingwei Jonah eretti Ernesto ujol Evan Roth Ethan Seltzer and Mark Stern
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