ARTIFICIAL HELLS

For over a decade, conceptual and performance art has been dominated by participatory art. Its champions, such as French curator Nic olas Bourriaud (who invented the term 'relational aesthetics' to describe it) and American art historian Grant Kester, believe that by encouraging an audience to join in, the artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Artificial Hells is the first histo rical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art. The book follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and e xamines k...[Read more]