g1es tor using media.
History itself is a problem dimensional cultural production, or a reaction
when it leads to a false sense of causality. If to the alienating effects of spectacle, artists,
we follow the trail of this work strictly through activists, citizens, and advertisers alike are
the lens of art (which is what most discipline- rushing headlong into methods of wo_rking
specific histories do), we could easily imagine that allow genuine interpersonal human rela-
a very Western trajectory moving from Dada to tionships to develop. The call for art into life at
Rhkrit Tiravanija in 1991 making Pad Thai- this particular moment in history implies both f
r ion of a history in quick strokes. But of , an urgency to matter as well as a privileging j
his kind of highly problematic nar- I
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of the Uved experience. These are two different
cks a true appreciation of the vast ililll, but within much of this work, they are
y ot global and local influences, an blended together.
ommon signpost for the contempo-
d. Art is no longer the primary influ- Participation
l ure a d because of this, tracing In recent years, we have seen increased growth
rn re complex. • in "participatory art'': art that requires some
,v,ng r s arches the post-Cold War action on behalf of the viewer ,in order to com-
d t dawn of neoliberalism, for cultural I plete the work. ConsJder ,
Tiza. (2002) by artists
c serve as points .of departure for I Jennifer AHora and Guiltefmt) 'Calzadilla. This
specrfic regional and historic c~ncerns. ~ow- public spac~ i~terven~i~n co,r:~i_sted _of twel~e {
ever, this book does not offer a singular cntical eno,:-mous p1eces of cha(k set out ,n public
language tor evaluating socially engaged art, squia(es. P~ ~pte used discarded remnants or / 1
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nor provide a list of best practices, nor offer a brpke off a chunk to write messages on the /
l linear historic interpretation of a field of prac-'il II g~¼,4ncl,1S,1nce ,AUora and Calzadilla ger:1eraHy
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