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February
Partnerships
2017
IN PARTICIPATORY ART
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SUMI INK CLUB the public of all ages
Move around the drawing, dont Participatory art is an art-making approach where
get stuck in one spot author suggests that the shows artists bore an
the audience is directly involved in the creative implicit responsibility to the Santa Barbara
The Sumi Ink Club is an ongoing Everyone agrees when the process behind the piece. A participatory art project, community, and thus, their artwork could be
participatory-style art project drawing is finished in theory, would not exist if it were not for the considered participatory in nature.
started in 2005 by Los Angeles- The Sumi Ink Club has held contributions from the audience. Participatory art
based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Each physical drawing (the piece meeting all over the world, stands in contrast to the conventional Western While this initial context defines participatory art
This community goes far
Fischbeck (the duo is also behind of paper / wall / window, etc.) including at The Getty Center (Los beyond our face-to-face interpretation of art, which views art as a good or based only on a notional relationship between
the experimental music project, remains the shared property of Angeles), University of North relationship with each service produced by artists, to be then consumed by artist and audience, one of the fundamental
Lucky Dragons). The premise for everyone who contributed to its Carolina, Rice University, other as human beings. In a passive audience. principles of participatory art today relies on its
the project relies on coordinating making, to do with as they please. Headlands Center for the Arts, education especially, this emphasis on authentically egalitarian measures--
open-to-the-public meetings, Museo Universitario del Chopo community connects us
where participants work together All images of drawings made by (Mexico City), Gallery One Unlike other styles of art that are commonly requiring that artists contribute an equal or
Sumi Ink Club belong to the public with the . . . great things viewed as belonging to their respective art
to create collaborative drawings (Melbourne, Australia), San Diego of the world, and with the lesser amount towards the creation of an
that follow a certain set of loose domain, and can be freely used in Museum of Art, Riverside Art movements, or ones that are traced topically to
grace of great things.. . . artwork, while maintaining an equal or lesser
guidelines. These guidelines any way by anyone to print a Museum, Pasadena Museum of specific periods in time, participatory art is not a
zine, create designs, or to share We are in community with amount of control, as compared to the power
include: California Art, and The University all of these great things, distinct genre--instead, it is a concept and
online there is no limit to how wielded and exercised by the participating
of Texas Visual Art Center. More and great teaching is about methodology with scattered origins, involving
(guidelines taken from their you can use the drawings you have info about this art project may be audience. This emphasis on shared divisions of
made together (browse the sumi knowing that community, decentralized applications that span across
website) found at http://sumiinkclub.com. labor, power, and control between artist and
archives for inspirations). feeling that community, movements and genres. The lack of clarity
sensing that community, audience makes the participatory art approach
surrounding the definition of participatory art has distinct from other art movements associated
and then drawing your
remained an issue since the terms inception, when, with audience participation, i.e., relational
Enim neo velit adsum odio, multo, students into it.
in 1980, the phrase first appeared in an article aesthetics, community-based art, interactive, or
in commoveo quibus premotamen reviewing an art exhibition featuring the works of
erat huic. Occuro luxor dolore, ut -PARKER PALMER socially-engaged art. Beyond simply allowing
three artists anonymously installed throughout a audience participation, participatory art offers
at praemitto opto si sudo, opes
Santa Barbara neighborhood; in the review, the the audience the agency of creation.
feugiat iriure validu.
: What
EDUCATOR
SPOTLIGHT:
SUSIE VEROFF Teacher Talk
My first role was to serve as
A monthly feature dedicated to sharing the stories of
teachers and researchers that use participatory art in the
A LOOK BACKPARTICIPATORY ART FROM THE
catalyst. A unique educational
experience was set up by inviting
classroom and beyond
(RECENT) PAST
these students to participate in a
research process. A problem was
identified and agreed on in relation
PARTICIPATORY ART RESEARCH: USING
to difficulties in school and the
relationship of this to individual and
RESEARCH/ACTION AND REFLECTION THROUGH
cultural identity. I provided ART PRODUCTION TO SEEK SOLUTIONS TO
information as to how to go about
researching the problem as far as COLLECTIVE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS
approaches or techniques.