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Thanks for the link, can’t seem to upload it for some reason? Would love a look at it as I am looking at mapping active and passive engagement within the context of participatory practice at present.

Irit Rogoff might be of interest, as might Maxine Green, Green more in the area of arts education research but depending on your focus you might find some interesing parallels…

Best,

Máire

Thanks for response and pointing out the articles. I will definately read them. From the historical point of view, this book could be interesting for you, since it describes different forms of collective practice in different cultural contexts after modernism. Unfortunately it makes little effort to point back to modernism – hence ‘collectivism after modernism’ of course – and that is a pity. In the beginning of the 20th century art movements operated as highly organized collectives, think about the surrealists for instance, with regular meetings, collective statements, strategies and voting on new members. They referred strongly to marxistic ideology as such and that is quite interesting I think. You can find some signs of the relevance of it in the book since it describes how after WW2 there was a strong anti-collective and highly individualistic tendency among American artists. Working in a collective was thought to be suspicious and smelled like communistic.

I’m glad that you found good references in the article. There are many examples around and I’m constantly researching about the subject. Just recently I’ve been working on diagrams to show the participatory process. More info will be uploaded at http://web.me.com/sch1

Thanks for the comment.

Sergio