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Participation Art

Participation Art is an interdisciplinary class, at University of Houston, focused on understanding the history and future of social engagement art, through hands-on group activities, community fieldwork, and readings on Social Sculpture, Distributed Creativity, Gift Economies, and Relational Aesthetics.

Parking Lot "Use Space" Assignment

In response to Assignment 4, the class voted to leave anonymous "gifts" on the hundreds of cars in the parking lot.

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Class Flickr Site

http://www.flickr.com/photos/participationart

Our mascot: the potato

Contact Andrea Grover

participationart[AT]gmail.com

The Players/Alter Ego

Aisen Chacin / Nicolas Bourriaud
Elia Arce / Harrell Fletcher
Emily Link / Christine Hill
Emily Sloan / Gordon Matta-Clark
John F. Sanchez / Ted Purves
Julia Wallace / Jon Rubin
Keijiro Suzuki / Joseph Beuys
Lindsay Burleson / Miranda July
Lisa Wicke / Davy Rothbart
Michael Brims / Yoko Ono
Nancy Douthey / Jeff Howe
Nicolas Teel / John Cage
Patrick Doyle / Allan Kaprow
Sebastian Forray / Trebor Scholz
Shawna Florida / George Maciunas
Tyson Urich / Howard Rheingold

Resources

Conflux Festival
Cooperation Commons
Creative Time: Interrogating Public Space
Fritz Haeg
Jeff Howe's Crowdsourcing.com
Jon Rubin
Learning to Love You More
Lygia Clark & Hélio Oiticica
Machine Project
Potato Perspective
Rirkrit Tiravanija by Jerry Saltz
Sal Randolph
Social Mental Environmental
SocialPractice.org
Temescal Amity Works
The Eyebeam OpenLab
The Land Foundation
Trebor Scholz