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Surrounds, Be-Ins, and Performative Participation: Shady Sides of Art and Interventions

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dc.contributor.editorCaygill, Howard
dc.contributor.editorLeeker, Martina
dc.contributor.editorSchulze, Tobias
dc.creatorLeeker, Martina
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-25T13:50:35Z
dc.date.available2018-09-25T13:50:35Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractBeginning in the 1940s, a group of former Bauhaus designers, American artists, and American intellectuals sought to intervene in cultural and political transformations. To revisit that history is to see how art and political power can become entwined, even when artists have the most democratic of intentions. In the 1940s, Americans built multimedia environments —democratic surrounds— which they hoped would help generate liberal democratic personalities by training audiences to curate their own aesthetic experiences. In the 1960s,these environments gave rise to an artistically grounded psychedelic Be-In and to a new holistic participation in a world of electronic media. In both cases, however, designers, scientists, artists, and politicians hoped that media would become both a means of liberation and a mode of control. This history leaves us with the question of which aesthetics and art forms could support a more democratic mode of engagement today. By working through the history of interventions and the arts, this conversation aims to reveal lures and traps that should be avoided in contemporary interventions.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/2071
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978-3-95796-111-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3099
dc.languageeng
dc.publishermeson press
dc.publisher.placeLüneburg
dc.relation.isPartOfisbn:978-3-95796-111-2
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/717
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectÄsthetikde
dc.subjectInterviewde
dc.subjectKunstde
dc.subjectperforming artsen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleSurrounds, Be-Ins, and Performative Participation: Shady Sides of Art and Interventionsde
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationLeeker, Martina (2017): Surrounds, Be-Ins, and Performative Participation: Shady Sides of Art and Interventions. An Interview with Fred Turner. In: Howard Caygill, Martina Leeker und Tobias Schulze (Hg.): Interventions in digital cultures. Technology, the political, methods. Lüneburg: meson press (Digital cultures series), 21-43. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/2071.
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local.coverpage2021-01-15T01:14:14
local.source.booktitleInterventions in digital cultures. Technology, the political, methods
local.source.epage43
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