When contrasted with Auteur theory. participatory video is more: - collaborative - community based - distributed and it operates with different models for - identity - authorship - audience - representation it can be regarded as a ### socially engaged practice > The participatory element of socially engaged practice, is key, with the artworks created often holding equal or less importance to the collaborative act of creating them. As Tom Finkelpearl outlines in his book What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, social practice is ‘art that’s socially engaged, where the social interaction is at some level the art.’ - Source: [Socially engaged practice | Tate](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/socially-engaged-practice) by Tate > "what characterizes socially engaged art is its dependence on social intercourse as a factor of its existence.... "social practice" avoids evocations of both the modern role of the artist (as an illuminated visionary) and the postmodern version of the artist (as a self-conscious critical being). Instead the term democratizes the construct, making the artist into an individual whose specialty includes working with society in a professional capacity....\[and\] is dependent on the involvement of others..." - Helguera (p.2) > "Decolonizing the act of making... flipping the process/camera" -coupe ### Examples #### Live performance ##### Cut Piece Yoko Ono (1964) [Details](https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/yoko-ono-cut-piece-1964/) #### Crowdworkers #crowdsource ##### BEFNOED #video Eva & Franco Mattes (2014-) [details](https://0100101110101101.org/befnoed/) ##### Postmodern Times #video Michael Mandiberg (2016) [details](https://www.mandiberg.com/postmodern-times/) ##### Time-Clock #video James Coupe (2019) [details](http://jamescoupe.com/?p=2476) ## investigate: [France Morin ](http://www.thequietintheland.org/)