{"product_id":"the-gestures-of-participatory-art-sruti-bala-9781526100771","title":"The Gestures of Participatory Art","description":"Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art insists that the concept of participation must be re-imagined and shifted onto other registers. Moving from reflections on institutional critique and impact to concrete analyses of moments of unsolicited, delicate participation and refusal, the book examines a range of artistic practices from India, Sudan, Guatemala and El Salvador, the Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a way of theorising participatory art, situating it between the visual and the performing arts, as both individual and collective, both internal attitude and social habitude.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sruti Bala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1526100770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526100771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Sruti Bala","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44068465606911,"sku":"9781526100771","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e45b3b0-123d-4bf2-bc13-c99f0e5cfe84.jpg?v=1685419159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gestures-of-participatory-art-sruti-bala-9781526100771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}