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Socially Engaged Art and Ethics: Power, Politics and Participation book cover

1st Edition

Socially Engaged Art and Ethics Power, Politics and Participation

Edited By Anthony Schrag Copyright 2025
314 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this unique anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art.  The volume aims to deepen conversations around what ‘good’ or ‘right’ activities could be in this developing and expanding practice, and readers are invited to consider the contextual nature of socially... Read more

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Anthony Schrag

Prologue: A Typology of Participatory Practices

Anthony Schrag

Section 1: Insiders and Outsiders

1. I Live Here! Reflections on Being a Socially Engaged Artist in a Small Community

Roxane Permar

2. Making Sense of Participation as a Practitioner Through a Nodal Governance Lens

Vaughn Sadie

3. Inside or Outside? Morten Traavik as a Director of Scenes of Dissensus – An Autoethnographic Approach

Lisbet Skregelid

Section 2: Infrastructures

4. The Walter Process: An Alternative to the Standard (American) Artworld System

Harrell Fletcher and Anthony Schrag

5. Doing The Right Thing? Managerial Ethics in Social Engaged Arts

Ali FitzGibbon and Shirley-Ann Hazlett

6. Ethical Consciousness in Collections Management

Bailea Jackson

7. Aesthetics as Ethics: The Politics of Arts-led Rural Reconstruction in Contemporary China

Meiqin Wang

Section 3: Roles and Responsibilities

8. Telaplico: The ‘Replica’ in Detotalising Relations of Exchange

Celia Irina González Álvarez

9.The Ethics of the Future: Cultural Emergence

Viviana Checchia

10. The Urgency of Community Engagement: Perspectives From the USA

Kremena Todorova and Kurt Gohde

Section 4: Careful Ethics

11. Critical Ethics and the Pedagogy of Care

Cameron Cartiere

12. Ethical Tensions Surrounding Care in Community Arts Organisations

Kyla Tully

13. Structural Distress: LGBTQ+ Communities in ‘Creative Health’ and the Limits of Care

Frances Williams and Yasmin Jiang

14. The Careful Turn: The Problem of Care within Socially Engaged Art

Anthony Schrag

Epilogue: The Only Way is Ethics

Sophie Hope

References

Index

Biography

Anthony Schrag is artist and researcher based in Scotland. He is a Reader in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at Queen Margaret University (Edinburgh) and the central focus of his work is to explore the role of art in participatory and public contexts. With a specific focus on social conflict, agonism, and ethics, he has exhibited widely, with numerous publications as well as an extensive history of undertaking social practice projects both nationally and internationally. www.anthonyschrag.com

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