“PARTICIPATORY ART”

December 2012

Role of artists and participants in the production of making art

FOUR TYPES OR DEGREES OF PARTICIPATION

(1) Nominal: an individual viewer contemplates a particular work of art in a gallery, museum, or other venue. The viewer still interacts with the artwork (intellectually and /or emotionally if it is successful). She is just not expected to “do” anything.

(2) Directed: a visitor completes a simple task to contributeto the creation of a work of art. Again, the work can be considered interactive but not necessarily collaborative because the work of art is determined by the artist.

(3) Creative: the visitor “provides content for a component of the work within a structure provided by the artist.” In this case, the artist seems to give up some control of the artwork by inviting the public to collaborate but is still largely under her conditions.

(4) Collaborative: The visitor shares responsibility for developing the structure and content of the work in collaboration and direct dialogue with the artist.” If structure and content are relinquished by the artist does this mean the artist abandons “all” control?

— Pablo Helguera

Nominal: an individual viewer contemplates a particular work of art in a gallery, museum, or other venue.

Creative: the visitor “provides content for a component of the work within a structure provided by the artist.”

Interactive Surveillance Installation “Interactive Layers”

Interactive Surveillance Installation – Interactive Lenses

Interactive Surveillance Installation – Interactive Lenses as targets

Central Ave Central Avenue Bilingual Preschool and Adult Community Center

2011-2012

Community Project

Central Ave Central Avenue Bilingual Preschool and Adult Community Center

2011-2012

Community Project

Guerilla Gardening

July. 2012

Community Project

Community ProjectGuerilla Gardening

July. 2012

Occupy Charlotte: Then and NowR0ss Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Occupy Charlotte: Then and NowR0ss Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Aug – Oct., 2012

Current Project (2012 – 2013)North Carolina Dream Team and the Youth Immigrant Forum

“Undocumented and unafraid" middle-school, high-school, and college students in the Triangle area (especially Chapel Hill and Carrboro) who are “coming out” their term for disclosing their undocumented status, despite the risk of being arrested and deported

This means making art as a collective for the purpose of “coming out,” in addition to the actions the group already makes, i.e., civil disobedience, rallies, hunger strikes, sit ins, etc., both nationally and locally.

North Carolina Dream Team and the Immigrant Youth Forum

August 2012

North Carolina Dream Team & the Immigrant Youth Forum

November 3. 2012