REVIEW // Art as Social Practice
Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
edited by Nato Thomson
Creative Time Books / MIT Press - 2012
Reviewed by Mark Gardner
“Everyone is an Artist.” —Joseph Beuys
The social practice of art is moving from the gallery to the street. Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, has edited Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011to address this shift. The book surveys a large and diverse cross-section of Artists, Art Groups, Community Groups, and Social Generators, each and every one an Activist. The works in Living As Form are varied in their different approaches to public interaction and are, more importantly, very timely.
Monday, 14th May
