From Gangs to Shopping Malls: Sentimental Aesthetics in Vietnamese Australian Community Arts

Brook, Scott

doi:10.1080/07256868.2014.899952

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“…Behind this rumination is a valuing of the knowledge and perspective of the housing estate residents in influencing the performance. As Scott Brook (2014) observed about the changing discourse around community in the 1990s, here the community is not seen principally as a target social group whose disadvantage can be addressed through the arts project, but rather as a resource for new ways of thinking -extending problem-solving to the minds of those who have not, historically, been given a substantial role to play in addressing Papastergiadis's 'critical transformations of neo-liberalism' (2012: 157). Similar examples were put forward by other interviewees.…”

Section: Addressing Abstract or General Social Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reinstating the artist’s voice: Artists’ perspectives on participatory projects

Johanson

Glow

2018

Journal of Sociology

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Claire Bishop argued that the ethical lens applied to socially engaged arts practice encourages ‘authorial renunciation’ in favour of collaboration and limits the opportunity to expose such practice to critical reception. This article responds to Bishop’s implicit call to envision an artist-centred framework for participatory arts by identifying the motivations and beneficial discoveries that artists make when they seek out the creative involvement of others. Based on interviews with Australian performing artists who have established socially engaged practices, the article aims to bring about a form of ‘authorial reinstatement’ into the value system around participatory arts practice. It identifies a range of motivations for artists who establish socially engaged or participatory practice, from self-developmental to altruistic; and from arts-focused to community- and society-focused. The article argues that using these motivations to inform indicators of achievement for participatory practice provides new opportunities for critical interrogation of those practices.

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Section: Addressing Abstract or General Social Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%