Cultures Of Participation: Arts, Digital Media And Cultural Institutions (routledge Research In Cultural And Media Studies)

This book examines cultural participation from three different but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics, participatory digital media and participatory cultural policies and institutions. Focussing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)produce different “cultures of participation”, an interdisciplinary team of authors demonstrate how the areas of the arts, digital media and cultural policy and institutions are shaped by different but interrelated contextual backgrounds. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives and strategies for empirically identifying “cultures of participation” and their current transformations and tensions in various regional and national settings. This book will be of interest to academics and cultural leaders in the areas of museum studies, media and communications, arts, arts education, cultural studies, curatorial studies and digital studies. It will also be relevant for cultural workers, artists and policy makers interested in the participatory agenda in art, digital media and cultural institutions. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of figures 8 List of contributors 9 1 Introduction: Cultures of participation 12 PART I Participatory art and aesthetics 22 2 Performance, public (re)assembly and civic reenactment 24 3 Autonomy and collectivity at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan 41 4 Cross-cultural collaboration: Modes of participation for co-creation of the urban public space 62 5 Art and local communities: Inclusion, interests and ownership in participatory art projects with embroiderers and billiard players 82 PART II Digital media and technology 102 6 VR – the culture of (non)participation? Reframing the participative edge of virtual reality 104 7 Photo-sharing as participatory surveillance 121 8 Medialities of participation in sound art 140 9 The participatory patient: Exploring the platformed multivalence and public value of cancer storytelling on social media 158 PART III Cultural policy and institutions 176 10 The “problem” of participation in cultural policy 178 11 Public participation and agency in art museums 196 12 Re-ordering and re-performing: Re-placing cultural participation and re-viewing wellbeing measures 212 13 Diving into the archive: Google Cultural Institute and the cultural politics of participation 231 Index 247