Failures of Public Art and Participation

Cameron Cartiere is a Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, Canada). She is the author of RE/Placing Public Art, co-author of The Manifesto of Possibilities, and co-editor of The Practice of Public Art (with Shelly Willis), The Everyday Practice of Public Art (with Martin Zebracki), and The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Realm (with Leon Tan)Anthony Schrag is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh, Scotland). He is an artist and researcher and the central focus of his work examines the role of art in participatory and public contexts, with a specific focus on social conflict, agonism and ethics. He has published numerous papers and produced social practice projects both nationally and internationally.

• CONTENTSList of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of contributorsIntroductionCameron Cartiere and Anthony SchragPart 1Failure of the Process Failure of Process: considering permanent works in an impermanent timeCameron Cartiere Failure as Success: Sam Durant’s Scaffold, Angela Two Stars’ Okciyapi, and the conundrum of critique.Erika Doss On Monumental Failure: A conversation Paul Farber and Kanyinsola Anifowoshe Failing Well: Exploring the value of failure through the UK national roll out of Arts on PrescriptionFrances Williams There’s always a story: Epic failings of the American percent-for-art modelShelly Willis and Janet Zweig Taking Inventory: digital public art collections and the challenge of physical distanceLori Goldstein Running across subsidence, following leaks: The ordinary failure of public art and public infrastructure servicesBecky ShawPart 2Failure of Participation The Failure of Participation: the demos is in the detailAnthony Schrag We Thought We Were Going To Change The World! Socially engaged art as cruel optimismSophie Hope Tarde de Sándwiches: The failure of participation in contemporary Cuban art Celia Irina González Álvarez How Intimate Public and Participatory Art Fails the CityLeon Tan No impact on cultural participation? - An analysis of the objective of increasing and widening cultural participation in European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017Louise Ejgod Hansen and Hans-Peter Degn Public Art Ethics and Failure: A postcolonial perspective on failure and the Centre for Political BeautyAnika Marschall Dare to Fail: socially engaged public art and its challenges in contemporary China Meiqin Wang Epilogue: Reconsidering failure Harriet SenieReferencesIndex