ARTIFICIAL HELLS

n this fully updated edition, Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada, the Situationist International, Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris, the 1970s Community Arts Movement, and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawel Althamer and Paul Chan. Bishop challenges...[Read more]