The Failures of Public Art and Participation

CONTENTS

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

Introduction

Cameron Cartiere and Anthony Schrag

Part 1

Failure of the Process






Failure of Process: considering permanent works in an impermanent time
Cameron Cartiere






Failure as Success: Sam Durant's Scaffold, Angela Two Stars' Okciyapi, and the conundrum of critique.
Erika Doss






On Monumental Failure: A conversation
Paul Farber and Kanyinsola Anifowoshe




Failing Well: Exploring the value of failure through the UK national roll out of Arts on Prescription
Frances Williams




There's always a story: Epic failings of the American percent-for-art model
Shelly Willis and Janet Zweig






Taking Inventory: digital public art collections and the challenge of physical distance
Lori Goldstein




Running across subsidence, following leaks: The ordinary failure of public art and public infrastructure services
Becky Shaw

Part 2

Failure of Participation




The Failure of Participation: the demos is in the detail
Anthony Schrag






We Thought We Were Going To Change The World! Socially engaged art as cruel optimism
Sophie Hope






Tarde de Sandwiches: The failure of participation in contemporary Cuban art
Celia Irina Gonzalez Alvarez






How Intimate Public and Participatory Art Fails the City
Leon Tan






No impact on cultural participation? - An analysis of the objective of increasing and widening cultural participation in European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017
Louise Ejgod Hansen and Hans-Peter Degn






Public Art Ethics and Failure: A postcolonial perspective on failure and the Centre for Political Beauty
Anika Marschall






Dare to Fail: socially engaged public art and its challenges in contemporary China
Meiqin Wang






Epilogue: Reconsidering failure

Harriet Senie

References

Index