# Participatory Practices
[Wikipedia Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_art)
( Type: Discipline )
## Description
Notes on participatory and socially engaged art practice, contrasted with auteur theory — collaborative, community-based, and distributed models of authorship, identity, and audience.
## Key Tags
#participatory-art #socially-engaged-art
## Essential Works
- [Cut Piece — Yoko Ono (1964)](https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/yoko-ono-cut-piece-1964/) - foundational participatory live performance piece
- [BEFNOED — Eva & Franco Mattes (2014–)](https://0100101110101101.org/befnoed/) - crowdworker-based video project
- [Postmodern Times — Michael Mandiberg (2016)](https://www.mandiberg.com/postmodern-times/) - crowdworker-based video project
- [Time-Clock — James Coupe (2019)](http://jamescoupe.com/?p=2476) - crowdworker-based video project
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### Notes
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/)
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## References
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### Secondary Sources Bibliography
Finkelpearl, Tom. *What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation*. Duke University Press, 2013. source of the 'social practice' definition quoted in Notes
Helguera, Pablo. *Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook*. Jorge Pinto Books, 2011. source of the p.2 quote on socially engaged art