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The ontological politics of artistic interventions

Implications for performing action research

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ID6134366
AuthorsTimon Beyes (0000-0001-7114-2717, Leuphana University of Lüneberg, Germany), Chris Steyaert (0000-0001-9760-2355, University of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland)
Year2011
Volume9
Issue1
Pages100-115
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAction Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1476750310396944
OpenAlexW2055542317
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited24

The aim of our article is to reflect upon intervention as a threshold where art and action research meet. For this, we will relate calls to apply the capacity of the performing arts to the social sciences to examples of neo-avant-garde art practices which show a renewed interest in (intervening into) the everyday production of public space. We recount and analyze two vignettes of artistic interventions to illustrate the politico-aesthetic power of art to interfere with how the social is assembled and to provoke new constellations of what is visible and sayable. Such experimental forms of engaging with the public raise the issue of a minoritarian politics of participation. Rather than being just another tool in the researcher’s toolkit, taking into account these practices can illustrate and inform certain dimensions of what could be called performative action research

Action (physics · Action research · Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Intervention (counseling · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Performing arts · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology

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Unique citing works26
Citations per year1,73
Citation span2011 - 2026 (16)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 26
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