Viewing and Acting (and Points in Between): The Trouble with Spectating after Rancière

Abstract

1 Rancière's account -that of a provocateur -explores a philosophical and political framework for spectatorship that bears directly on this gathering artistic trend.One of the delights of The Emancipated Spectator has been the prospect of taking at least parts of it literally. It sometimes appears to exhort us to participate rather than spectate, act rather than watch -we hear a call to the barricades. Its saliency resides in its application to a wider array of spectator transactions, including those where you don't necessarily have to leave your seat in order to enter the playing arena, nor stop watching in order to be in action. Rancière is concerned with the political aspect of spectating by way of spectators having a place, and knowing what that place can be and

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