Call for papers – Piano b. Arti e culture visive.

Participation in artistic practices: methodology and experiences

Edited by Maria Giovanna Mancini, Emanuele Rinaldo Meschini and Roberto Pinto

Starting from the early publications that, at the dawn of the 2000s (Bishop 2006; Kester 2004), began to systematise some artistic practices that used dialogue, participation, and political activism as their primary means, international critical literature had to face up the proliferation of these participatory experiences. Mainly developed in urban areas and experimenting with new methodologies of action⎯programmatically interdisciplinary, ⎯these practices have contributed to the subversion of traditional roles and profiles within the art system, suggesting a new vocabulary and new competencies for artistic practices in public space.

The interest in this kind of activity⎯not only among artists and designers but also among patrons⎯ has encouraged the establishment of university programs and courses for curators aimed at training hybrid profiles able to develop cultural projects with previously marginalised communities.

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