a) Highlight 3 insights that your reading has helped bring to the surface. Use specific text evidence to link your insights.
b) If you could ask the author 3 questions, what questions might those be?
c) What applications might this work have to your understanding of an ethical approach to community-engaged arts?
d) Consider the work we have been exploring this semester thus far. Choose one artist or project that resonated with you. What ethical considerations were in place on this project?
a.
pg. 2 "What exactly is meant by the social or public sphere in collaborative artworks?-Are artists reflecting upon and co-opting already formed communities,... Or are they producing provisional communities that come together in experimental formations for the duration of a project?"
The first thing that came to my mind when hearing a few examples of the extreme non consensual community art making was the word "experiment" because this seems more like testing than actual art. this is a degree of collaboration that is purely about the outcome and not the process.
"Collaborative art practices, in short, appear to be judged on the basis of the ethical efficacy underwriting the artist's relationship to his or her collaborators rather than what makes these works interesting as art."
If the community doesn't recognize the artist or the goal of the artist should this person have the right to engage with the work? I think not. Because I believe its not effective as an art practice to lead a group project when everyone is blindfolded, except the curator.
"We turn here to more familiar critical terrain when it is suggested that the discursive criteria used currently to address socially engaged art are 'accompanied by the idea that art should extract itself from the useless domain of the aesthetic and be fused with social praxis'."
This is a claim of sorts. When you take the aesthetic away from "community art" and replace it with social engagement that will be the basis on criticizing it.
I hope art can have beauty without the aesthetic.
b. To the author,
What parts do believe are ethical with community engagement in these examples you provided.
If you agree with any of it.
Why do you think an artists like these have any right to call this "art" then find it okay to profit off it?
What can I do as an artist to call attention to things like this or to avoid them, besides just doing my research.
c. This is a great example of what not to do when engaging in community art. Its not ethical. I cant use this in any application. Maybe if I was a hateful enabling artist I could use this technique. but I'm not. So if you're asking me about the work as an artical. Sure I think this is a great way, criticize different approaches for collaborative art practices.
d. I'll choose the project in Salt Lake, that Shannon and Evelyn worked on together. They helped, with lots communication of the city, establish what the main thing they needed and gave it to them, without enabling the unfortunate and giving a space that was needed by most the town and now have a positive space to create further intimate engagement withing the city.
They knew because they listened to the people, how to step up or step down when having a very exclusive authority.
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