Social Practice Reading List
1. Artificial Hells; Participatory art and the politics of spectatorship
Bishop, Claire. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship London ;: Verso,
2012.
You can find the text here.
2. Pablo Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art
Reyes, Jen Delos. “Open Engagement: Accessible Education for Socially Engaged Art.” In The
Everyday Practice of Public Art, 120–140. 1st ed. Routledge, 2016.
You can find the text here.
3. Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces: Community and communication in modern art
Kester, Grant H. Conversation Pieces : Community and Communication in Modern Art Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2004.
You can find the text here.
4. Nato Thompson, Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
Thompson, Nato. Living as Form : Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 1st ed. New York, N.Y:
Creative Time, 2012.
You can find the text here.
5. Philipp Dietachmair & Pascal Gielen (eds) The Art of Civil Action: Political Space and Cultural
Dissent
Dietachmair, Philipp, Pascal Gielen, and Andrew Barnett. The Art of Civil Action : Political Space and
Cultural Dissent Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017.
You can find the text here.
6. Paul De Bruyne & Pascal Gielen (eds), Community Art: The Politics of Tresspassing
De Bruyne, Paul, Gielen, Pascal. Community Art: The Politics of Tresspassing Amsterdam: Valiz,
2011.
You can find the text here.
7. Mapping the terrain: New genre public art.
Lacy, Suzanne. Mapping the Terrain : New Genre Public Art Seattle, Wash: Bay Press, 1995.
You can find the text here.
8. Living as form: Socially engaged art from 1991-2011.
Thompson, Nato. Living as Form : Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 1st ed. New York, N.Y:
Creative Time, 2012.
You can find the text here.
9. What we want is free: Generosity and exchange in recent art
Purves, Ted, and Shane Aslan Selzer. What We Want Is Free, Second Edition: Critical Exchanges in
Recent Art. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014.
You can find the text here.
10. Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art.
La Berge, Leigh Claire. Wages Against Artwork : Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially
Engaged Art. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
You can find the text here.
11. Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China : Voices from Below
Wang, Meiqin. Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China : Voices from Below New York:
Routledge, 2019.
You can find the text here.
12. Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
Smith, Stephanie. Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2013.
You can find the text here.
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