Community Engaged Arts + Thirdspace: Finding Authentic Engagement in Contemporary Art
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Date
2015-06-15
Authors
Thornton, Chelsey
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University of Oregon
Abstract
There is an ongoing challenge in arts organizations who integrate community
engaged arts into their mission, focus and programming. This challenge is to identify
tools and practices that help foster valuable and authentic community engaged art
programming within a contemporary society. The purpose of this research is to
understand how community engaged arts organizations who focus on the presenting
of contemporary arts, can be placed within Thirdspace. Through this identification this
research will explore how Thirdspace can be utilized as a tool to create authentic
engagement for audiences. This research will also explore three arts organizations
that focus on the presenting of contemporary arts. Examination was conducted
through literature review and an exploration of an organization that has been
established through literature as utilizing Thirdspace, Chapter in Wales, which will
serve as an organizing principle, and a collective case study of two arts organization’s
programs who do not explicitly identify with Thirdspace, PICA’s Field Guide in
Portland, Oregon and WPA’s Lobby Project in Washington, DC. Themes that will
emerge from this study are: Thirdspace as a tool of engagement, participatory
practices of engagement, organizational structures, and contemporary art as medium.
The themes of this study will be useful to the community engaged arts field at large to
help further an understanding of how contemporary art can be used in collaboration
with Thirdspace to create authentic engagement within audiences.
Description
101 pages
Keywords
Thirdspace, Relational aesthetics, Engagement, Contemporary art, Participatory arts, Audience