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Social Practices and Art Institutions

其他書名	An Inquiry Into Institutional Use of Social Practice
出版	School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ge0rswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Social practice is a public art practice that depends upon artists working collaboratively with communities to tackle issues that are directly related to the community at the heart of this focused activity. Usually with a strong social function in its aims, social practice is also seen as an aesthetic expression of activism where the value systems of social action, cultural action, and aesthetic activity are reconciled as part of a spectrum of active engagements. The theoretical framework of social practice mainly includes the concepts of community, space, and time, which are also the evaluation criteria for social practice. This thesis takes a new angle to looking at social practice by asking the initial question, what is the institutional use of social practice and how can it be evaluated? My case study is the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), which is arguably an institution that operates under the critical framework of social practice. The major task of this research is to answer the question of whether social practice can reconcile with an institutional framework. The findings of my research show that social practice at an institutional level is still about the fundamental concepts of social practice, namely the community, space, and time. The puzzle of how this relates to the institution is resolved by recognizing that any social practice potentially becomes an institution.