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Examines social practice art as a critical strain of contemporary artistic practices— and explores the role shift from an artist as producer to collaborator within the public sphere
Challenges traditionally Western discourses around art, bringing centers of art production in diverse parts of the world to the fore and putting emphasis on community and living traditions in the MENASA region
Explores the nuanced question of whether artists should consider the wants or needs of the public
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the ways in which artists and arts organizations today forge collaborative, socially engaged situations that involve non-professionals in the process of making art, often over a period of time, through creating opportunities to examine collective concerns and needs. Collaborative art praxis is gaining prominence in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA) region. This is a discursive method that is experimental, with results that often expand the notions of what art is—and how it can be produced. After an introduction to global approaches to such a practice, Ali examines the foundation of contemporary art in the MENASA that is linked to a longer history of colonialism. The book analyzes artist-led initiatives and community-based organizations through themes including relational aesthetics, war and violence, blight in marginalized places around the world, in addition to questions associated with art and its value in the fields of global contemporary art and society.
Authors and Affiliations
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Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Atteqa Ali
About the author
Atteqa Ali is an art historian, writer, and curator based in Dubai and New York. She has written for several publications, including an essay on collaborative and socially engaged art in the extended Middle East for Third Text. She is Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collaborative Praxis and Contemporary Art Experiments in the MENASA Region
Authors: Atteqa Ali
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47925-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47924-4Published: 31 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47927-5Published: 01 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47925-1Published: 30 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 226
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts