{"id":619,"date":"2016-02-02T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brack.sg\/?p=619"},"modified":"2019-08-29T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T07:15:50","slug":"between-a-boat-and-wall-beyond-the-mythology-of-the-participatory-art-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brack.sg\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/between-a-boat-and-wall-beyond-the-mythology-of-the-participatory-art-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Between a Boat and Wall: Beyond the Mythology of the Participatory Art Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Between a Boat and Wall<\/em> is a series discussing the theme of \u2018public space\u2019, \u2018commons\u2019 and \u2018relationality\u2019, not necessarily with reference to concrete examples, by artists, writers, and photographers. This article, by Brack Editor Nasri Shah<\/a><\/span>, introduces other forthcoming articles in the series that include the Artist-Writer Pair Series featuring: ETC<\/span>, Im Heung-Soon<\/span>, Matthew Mazzotta<\/span>.<\/h5>\n
Excerpted from BrackMag Issue 1. BUY the inaugural issue of BrackMag here.<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Foreword By Nasri Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of us know the mythology of the participatory art practice, cultivated around particular fables of \u201cart\u201d and \u201clife\u201d that spring from a specific geography of the global North (North America, Western Europe, etc.). Yet these tales remain a mainstay in conversations around such artistic practices, even if somewhat ironically. So it was in recent conversations with artists and writers that I was able to revisit these narratives, perhaps even test them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In devising this editorial series, we have been careful not to fix a conception of what theory might be. From a detention centre in Buenos Aires (Erika Teichert), to a glasshouse in London (Jasmine Er), various places become working grounds for new modes of theoretical writing and reflection. At the heart of this investigation is also an interest in the nature of the written word itself: what does it mean to inhabit different mediums like photo-essays and anecdotes (Teo Wen Jia) from which we can draw theoretical insights?<\/p>\n

In other words, these pieces are rarely argumentative and explore different potentialities through affect, dialogue (e.g. with Im Heung- Soon<\/a><\/span>) or representation. Like a good rubber band, we\u2019re interested in the elasticity of theory here.<\/p>\n

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