{"product_id":"what-we-made-conversations-on-art-and-social-cooperation-hardback-9780822352846","title":"What We Made; Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation (Hardback) 9780822352846","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhat We Made\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConversations on Art and Social Cooperation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTom Finkelpearl (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822352846\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages, 91 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e24 x 16.9 x 3.2 cm, 0.685 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“These conversations by key practitioners and thinkers are a snapshot of thinking around the emergence of social and collaborative art, which seeks to improve society and address social issues. Finkelpearl ably situates collaborative and participatory art within the chronology of American art history.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Toro Castaño (Library Journal) \u003cdiv\u003e\"What \u003ci\u003eWhat We Made\u003c\/i\u003e does, perhaps better than anything I’ve read so far about this particular kind of art, is utterly refrain from arriving at singular summaries or judgments. Instead, the conversations foreground the nuanced and complex social relations tied up in any artwork, but particularly collaborative artwork that draws on communities operating largely outside of the arts marketplace. And the projects Finkelpearl has chosen to discuss and feature by and large demonstrate real possibilities for genuine exchange across networks and communities.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Alexis Clements (Hyperallergic) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhat We Made\u003c\/i\u003e is a good sourcebook of art that tackles  politics through participation and collaboration. The  author’s introduction provides a useful overview of the situation in contemporary America. . . .”\u003c\/div\u003e - Sally O'Reilly (Art Monthly) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhat We Made\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the stars of the social practice world Rick Lowe, Tania Bruguera, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Harrell Fletcher, and more in conversations with urban planners, educators, and each other, to create a fluid and interdisciplinary dialogue about social practice and its complicated, beautiful and necessary implications in the world.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Katie Bachler (The Art Book Review) \u003cdiv\u003e“Finkelpearl has provided his readers with a rich description of a particular, influential movement in the art museum world. This book illustrates his own commitment to social collaboration. By presenting the conversations that make up the core of this volume, he brings this aspect of the art museum world to a larger public.”\u003c\/div\u003e - George E. Hein (Curator)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhat We Made\u003c\/i\u003e, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media. Issues discussed include the experiences of working in public and of working with museums and libraries, opportunities for social change, the lines between education and art, spirituality, collaborative opportunities made available by new media, and the elusive criteria for evaluating cooperative art. Finkelpearl engages the art historians Grant Kester and Claire Bishop in conversation on the challenges of writing critically about this work and the aesthetic status of the dialogical encounter. He also interviews the often overlooked co-creators of cooperative art, \"expert participants\" who have worked with artists. In his conclusion, Finkelpearl argues that pragmatism offers a useful critical platform for understanding the experiential nature of social cooperation, and he brings pragmatism to bear in a discussion of Houston's \u003ci\u003eProject Row Houses\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterviewees\u003c\/i\u003e. Naomi Beckwith, Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Brett Cook, Teddy Cruz, Jay Dykeman, Wendy Ewald, Sondra Farganis, Harrell Fletcher, David Henry, Gregg Horowitz, Grant Kester, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Pedro Lasch, Rick Lowe, Daniel Martinez, Lee Mingwei, Jonah Peretti, Ernesto Pujol, Evan Roth, Ethan Seltzer, and Mark Stern\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction \u003cbr\u003e  The Art of Social Cooperation: An American Framework 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cooperation Goes Public \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eConsequences of a Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e100 Victoria\/10,000 Tears\u003c\/i\u003e 51\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Daniel Joseph Martinez, artist, and Gregg M. Horowitz, philosophy professor \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChicago Urban Ecology Action Group\u003c\/i\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e Follow-Up Interview: Naomi Beckwith, participant \u003cbr\u003e 3. Museum, Education, Cooperation \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemory of Surfaces\u003c\/i\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Ernesto Pujol, artist, and David Henry, museum educator \u003cbr\u003e 4. Overview \u003cbr\u003e Temporary Coaltions, Mobilized Communities, and Dialogue as Art 114\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Grant Kester, art historian \u003cbr\u003e 5. Social Vision and a Cooperative Community \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eProject Row Houses\u003c\/i\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Rick Lowe, artist, and Mark Stern, professor of social history and urban studies \u003cbr\u003e 6. Participation, Planning, and a Cooperative Film \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlot Out the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Harrell Fletcher, artist, and Ethan Seltzer, professor of urban studies and planning \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRide Out the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e Follow-up Interview: Jay Dykeman, collaborator \u003cbr\u003e 7. Education Art \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatedra Arte del Conducta\u003c\/i\u003e 179\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Tania Bruguera, artist \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatedra de Conducta\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Follow-up Interview: Claire Bishop, art historian \u003cbr\u003e 8. A Political Alphabet 219\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Wendy Ewald, artist, and Sondra Farganis, political scientist \u003cbr\u003e 9. Crossing Borders \u003cbr\u003e Transnational Community-Based Production, Cooperative Art, and Informal Trade Networks 240\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Pedro Lasch, artist, and Teddy Cruz, architect \u003cbr\u003e 10. Spirituality and Cooperation \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnburning Freedom Hall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Packer School Project\u003c\/i\u003e 269\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Brett Cook, artist, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Seer Project\u003c\/i\u003e 301\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Lee Mingwei, artist \u003cbr\u003e 11. Interactive Internet Communication \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhite Glove Tracking\u003c\/i\u003e 313\u003cbr\u003e Interview: Evan Roth, artist \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhite Glove Tracking\u003c\/i\u003e 335\u003cbr\u003e Follow-up Interview: Jonah Peretti, contagious media pioneer \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Pragmatism and Social Cooperation 343\u003cbr\u003e Notes 363\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 373\u003cbr\u003e Index 381\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574570938648,"sku":"9780822352846","price":75.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-we-made-conversations-on-art-and-social-cooperation-hardback-9780822352846","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}