Podcasts about adair rounthwaite

In the decades leading up to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia, a collective of young artists based in Zagreb used the city's public spaces as a platform for radical individual expression. The Group of Six Authors and their circle in the period from 1975 to 1985 are the focus of Adair Rounthwaite's book This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb, which highlights the friction between public and private that was the foundation of their innovative practices. Rounthwaite is joined here in conversation with Mechtild Widrich.Adair Rounthwaite is author of This Is Not My World: Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb and Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York. Rounthwaite is associate professor of art history at the University of Washington.Mechtild Widrich is author of Monumental Cares: Sites of History and Contemporary Art and Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art. Widrich is an art historian, curator, and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.   REFERENCES:Caroline A. JonesTerry SmithChika Okeke-Agulu Vlasta DelimarTomislav GotovacAna MendietaSasha Su-Ling WellandJenny Lin / Above SeaLiz Kotz / Words to Be Looked AtVlado MartekMladen StilinovićGina BeaversThis Is Not My World is available from University of Minnesota Press.

In Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) Adair Rounthwaite examines the roles of artist, audience and institutional context in the rise of new forms of live art during the Reagan years. The book focuses upon live art projects sponsored by the Dia Foundation involving a variety of practices from installation to Town Hall meetings and other participatory forms. Rounthwaite synthesizes diverse archival materials in order to develop a richly textured study that recovers the complexities of projects committed to fostering audience agency in the consumption of contemporary art. Kirstin L. Ellsworth has a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University (2005) and currently is an Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills. Email: kellsworth@csudh.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) Adair Rounthwaite examines the roles of artist, audience and institutional context in the rise of new forms of live art during the Reagan years. The book focuses upon live art projects sponsored by the Dia Foundation involving a variety of practices from installation to Town Hall meetings and other participatory forms. Rounthwaite synthesizes diverse archival materials in order to develop a richly textured study that recovers the complexities of projects committed to fostering audience agency in the consumption of contemporary art. Kirstin L. Ellsworth has a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University (2005) and currently is an Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills. Email: kellsworth@csudh.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) Adair Rounthwaite examines the roles of artist, audience and institutional context in the rise of new forms of live art during the Reagan years. The book focuses upon live art projects sponsored by the Dia Foundation involving a variety of practices from installation to Town Hall meetings and other participatory forms. Rounthwaite synthesizes diverse archival materials in order to develop a richly textured study that recovers the complexities of projects committed to fostering audience agency in the consumption of contemporary art. Kirstin L. Ellsworth has a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University (2005) and currently is an Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills. Email: kellsworth@csudh.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) Adair Rounthwaite examines the roles of artist, audience and institutional context in the rise of new forms of live art during the Reagan years. The book focuses upon live art projects sponsored by the Dia Foundation involving a variety of practices from installation to Town Hall meetings and other participatory forms. Rounthwaite synthesizes diverse archival materials in order to develop a richly textured study that recovers the complexities of projects committed to fostering audience agency in the consumption of contemporary art. Kirstin L. Ellsworth has a Ph.D. in the History of Art from Indiana University (2005) and currently is an Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills. Email: kellsworth@csudh.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices