Friday, May 25th, 2007...9:01 am
Community art
Yesterday there was a little panel discussion about community art. Made me think. Community Art is a way of approching society, a way of involving instead of creating a distance. It doesn’t have the Western concept of “high art” and “low art”, artist and maker, process and result. It is a new way of placing arts back in society, giving it social relevance, instead of emphasizing post-WWII terms as “audiences are suspect” and “Art for art’s sake”.
A good example is the AACM, one of the first “arts” movements which also involved the crowd. Quite interesting is the vision from Ekow Eshun.
Need to think on this.









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