Towards a shared responsibility for quality in the participatory arts: Key insights into conditions underpinning quality

Blanche, Rachel

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“…The reality in Seine-St-Denis is that the "prerequisites" for quality (Blanche, 2014), or "happy participation" (Carrel, 2013) are rarely all in place simultaneously and their absence needs to be continuously and relentlessly navigated. The making of sense happens in the social interactions surrounding an artwork (Djakouane & Segré, 2017, p. 4) and, as a practitioner, the difficulty is to recognise and understand the significance of what is happening, as it happens, and to adjust, change tack, or let go accordingly.…”

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Redefining Failure

Harper¹

2020

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The expectation for participatory arts to effectively engage targeted communities might lead to the conclusion that non-participation is failure. But is it necessarily failure? For artists navigating “entangled territories” (Halvorsen, 2017) and “competing narratives” (Thompson, 2009) in the multi-cultural Paris banlieue, non-participation or refusal is an inevitability that needs to be embraced. Drawing on theories of participation from the fields of socially engaged performance, sociology, geography and cultural studies, this article explores the value and nuances of invisible, minimal, peripheral or conditional participation encountered in the narrow spaces for manoeuvre between stakeholders’ conflicting agendas. It argues that refusals do not necessarily negate the work, and that attending to, and redefining, these moments may be key to understanding not ‘how to get people to participate better’, but how to perceive non-participation as an eloquent affirmation of agency and a significant participation in something else.

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Redefining Failure

Harper¹

2020

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Reinstating the artist’s voice: Artists’ perspectives on participatory projects

Johanson

Glow

2018

Journal of Sociology

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Claire Bishop argued that the ethical lens applied to socially engaged arts practice encourages ‘authorial renunciation’ in favour of collaboration and limits the opportunity to expose such practice to critical reception. This article responds to Bishop’s implicit call to envision an artist-centred framework for participatory arts by identifying the motivations and beneficial discoveries that artists make when they seek out the creative involvement of others. Based on interviews with Australian performing artists who have established socially engaged practices, the article aims to bring about a form of ‘authorial reinstatement’ into the value system around participatory arts practice. It identifies a range of motivations for artists who establish socially engaged or participatory practice, from self-developmental to altruistic; and from arts-focused to community- and society-focused. The article argues that using these motivations to inform indicators of achievement for participatory practice provides new opportunities for critical interrogation of those practices.

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Towards a shared responsibility for quality in the participatory arts: Key insights into conditions underpinning quality

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Redefining Failure

Redefining Failure

Reinstating the artist’s voice: Artists’ perspectives on participatory projects

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