Into to Participation

Participatory art greatly differs from individually produced art in many aspects. It is not just the combined efforts of multiple artists versus that of one single artist’s though, it’s more about the process of creation. Bishop points out that activation, authorship, and community have been the most frequently cited motivations for all participation art since the 1960s. Underlying these are political processes of the art’s creation. Participatory art has been labeled “democratic” or “egalitarian” since the 1960’s, with the rise of communism.It sounds to me like Rancière was beginning to spell out the phenomenon of participatory art, in that it is a natural process. He said, “Spectatorship is not the passivity that has turned into activity. It is our normal situation” (16). I agree with Rancière when he says we are all equally capable of inventing our own translations. I think along with advancements in technology, more spectators will become contributors and more participatory art will emerge, just like the One World video.