Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art
Author: Sharon Irish
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1350197610

Download Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

Art and Social Function

Art and Social Function
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher: Batsford
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Download Art and Social Function Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"As well as providing a theoretical framework, Art and Social Function documents two large-scale projects - one in west London and the other in Edinburgh - and introduces Meta Filter, an interactive machine designed to develop the relationships between individuals, and between individuals and groups through the examination of differing perceptions of social coding structures. The artist provides a new introduction explaining the context in which this important work was developed."--BOOK JACKET.

Art and Social Function

Art and Social Function
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1976
Genre: Art and society
ISBN:

Download Art and Social Function Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Art and Social Function

Art and Social Function
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1976
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Download Art and Social Function Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Douments two of Willat's large scale projects, one in West London, the other in Edinburgh.

Stephen Willats

Stephen Willats
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1979
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Download Stephen Willats Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

* A unique approach to architecture, modern buildings analysed by occupants * Demonstrates an art practice intervening actively in people's lives * Fascinating insight into Willats' 30-year career * Documents projects from cities including Berlin, London, New York

Stephen Willats

Stephen Willats
Author: Heike Munder
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9783858816481

Download Stephen Willats Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"The work of the British conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. London, 1943) interrogates structures of community life and social interaction. Exploring the modular architecture of social housing projects, he spotlights forms of individual creative adaptation that defy the uniformity and functionality of the spaces. Such dissent with normative parameters is especially Interesting to Willats because it is where individuality reveals itself and self-determination is articulated. He finds similar modes of nonconformist expression in London's experimental underground club scene and in places on the urban periphery where teenagers seek escape from institutional or conformist pressures. His understanding of what art is and does is reflected in a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice that takes inspiration from sciences beyond the realm of art. Since the 1960s, his work has been influenced by cybernetics, the study of reciprocal relations in dynamic systems, which helps him think through autonomous forms of organization and their structures of control and communication. Providing him with both a method and an aesthetic vocabulary, it is fundamental to his redefinition of the social function and agency of art. Exhibition: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (25.05.2019 - 18.08.2019)."--

Artwork as Social Model

Artwork as Social Model
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher: Rgap (Research Group for Artists)
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Art and society
ISBN: 9780956902429

Download Artwork as Social Model Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This manual, which includes texts, interviews and artwork from five decades of practice, is intended as a tool for any artist or practitioner looking to find a meaningful relationship with contemporary society. It proclaims, and argues for, a culture that promotes the fluid, transient, relative and complex society from which it stems.

Stephen Willats

Stephen Willats
Author: Stephen Willats
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1996-03-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Download Stephen Willats Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

* A unique approach to architecture, modern buildings analysed by occupants * Demonstrates an art practice intervening actively in people's lives * Fascinating insight into Willats' 30-year career * Documents projects from cities including Berlin, London, New York

Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice

Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice
Author: Mercedes Vicente
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2023-11-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3031369033

Download Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers. This book follows Lange's trajectory from his early observational studies to the crisis of representation and socially engaged video and activism, as it is shaped by, and resists, the artistic, cultural and political preoccupations of the 1970s and 1980s. It strikes a balance between being a monographic account providing a close analysis of Lange's oeuvre and drawing from unpublished archival materials—a sort of catalogue raisonné—whilst maintaining a breadth with theoretical discourses around the themes of labour and class, education, and indigenous struggles central to his work. The book's frameworks of Conceptual Art, structuralist and ethnographic film theory, social documentary and the critique of representation, video as social practice and the notion of 'feedback', participatory socially engaged art and postcolonial and indigenous theory,—expand our understanding of video outside the predominant structuralist tendencies. Lange's transnational and nomadic career introduces notions of alterity and challenges nationalistic accounts that excluded him in the past.