The ’do-it-yourself’ artwork

Anna Dezeuze is Lecturer in Art History at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée in Marseilles

Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you - the viewer - are invited to 'do it yourself.'

Contents1. Anna Dezeuze: An introduction to 'do-it-yourself'' artworkPART I: SITUATING PARTICIPATION2. Guy Brett: 3 Pioneers3. Anna Dezeuze: "Open work," "do-it-yourself artwork," and bricolage4. Judith Rodenbeck: "Creative acts of consumption" or, death in Venice5. Arnauld Pierre: Instability: the visual/bodily perception of space in kinetic environmentsPART II: PERFORMING PARTICIPATION6. Catherine Wood: The rules of engagement: Displaced figuration in Robert Morris's sculpture7. Frazer Ward: Marina Abramovic: Approaching zero8. Amelia Jones: Space, body and the self in the work of Bruce Nauman9. Janet Kraynak: Tiravanija's liability10. Jennifer Gonzalez: The face and the public: Race, secrecy and digital art practicePART III: THEORISING PARTICIPATION11. Anna Dezeuze: Play, ritual and politics: Transitional artworks in the 1960s12. Miwon Kwon: Exchange and reciprocity in some art of the 1960s and after13. Christian Kravagna: Working on the community: Models of participatory practice14. Claire Bishop: Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics15. Beryl Graham: What kind of participative system? Critical vocabularies from new media artIndex