Collaborative Praxis and Contemporary Art Experiments in the MENASA Region by Atteqa Ali

Author:Atteqa Ali
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030479251
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Tap. also organized a research project: “A few things you need to know when creating an art project in a public space in Lebanon.”18 This program was organized to provide insight into public art from legal and administrative viewpoints. For this project, tap. Gathered a roundtable of experts from the artistic, governmental, and legal sectors to discuss the challenges that an individual or group might face when attempting to put work out in the municipal realm. The initiative also included a field guide for such an endeavor.

The goals of such projects are to blur the divide between art and everyday people. This is a critical aspect of collaborative, socially engaged, participatory art practices. By connecting with the public, art is momentarily integrated into the social fabric of a community, rather than always being something that is irrelevant to a majority of people. Through such initiatives that weave together creative ventures with community concerns, artists and arts professionals have attempted to have art viewed as a dynamic part of society. It is an activist dynamic that propels some artists to assume this role. Kester informs of as much:

What unites this disparate network of artists and arts collectives is a series of provocative assumptions about the relationship between art and the broader social and political world and about the kinds of knowledge that aesthetic experience is capable of producing.19

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