Engaging with Art

Johnny came home late from work. He felt very tired, I spent the night in front of the television and decided to entertain myself with some programs. His cable company offered him about 100 television channels. He clicked on the remote control until he passed through various programs, and he found something familiar and attractive. As soon as he was swallowed up by the plot, on TV show he got rid of his intense life. He can choose from various forms of passive entertainment, such as Internet browsing, gallery shopping, concerts, music.

One of the problems of new social participation in Kester's art critique is roughly imitating the practice of social participation in the art that it depends on Habermas's communication concept that has been coordinated and that dialogue leads to empathy and cognition It is that. Aspects) Critics should not mainly focus on the formal aspects of art but should evaluate society's ability to report in an empathic way and participate in the art of listening to the environment and spectators. It is to establish "ethical identity" between artists and their collaborators. There are privileges of agreement and problem of subjectivity and are often retreated due to more fundamental or "irrational" demands and these demands are more drastic than creating visible exclusion processes and breaklines And I am not very interested in building empathy. Artists will not disappear (and critics) Because there is a wish and I want to mobilize the community

New social participation in art criticism should be "field analysis" - of course the name of the journal written by Keester. Art historians need to seriously consider the participation of society of art and the way they touch and cooperate with the audience and hence individual art is no longer a privileged subject of analysis but an artistic ethnography that is an artist and a community Developing. This relationship is the starting point for a critical analysis of the project. Kester talks about "scrutinizing a specific project, how power and resistance work with different aesthetics, discourse, subjective and institutional factors".

From the book "Fields: Social Participation in Art Criticism" by Grant Kester, it turns out that the discourse of social participation in social participation art and art is still very active. Quezter is the driving force of a magazine, it mainly brings together more art historians, critics and artists in the United States. The editing committee consists of art historians composed of Shannon's Shannon Jackson, curator of creative era, NATO Thompson, politicians such as George Marcus, Irvine and Tania Bruguera of the University of California. Surname in the field of contemporary art. So far, four journals have been published online, including artists and writers Gregory Cholet, experienced researcher Alan W. Moore, and Polish American artist Krzystof Wodiczko. Alan W. Moore and Gloria Durán wrote an article about La Tabacalera Self-Organizing Social Center in Madrid