Autogenous Culture as Political Form

An Investigation Through Participatory Art with Communities in Singapore

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Felicia Low ISBN: 9781490778693
Publisher: Trafford Publishing Publication: December 14, 2016
Imprint: Trafford Publishing Language: English
Author: Felicia Low
ISBN: 9781490778693
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication: December 14, 2016
Imprint: Trafford Publishing
Language: English

In Singapore, the discussion of all things community is highly sensitive and potentially provocative. Artists who work with communities risk being politicised for various identitarian purposes. This book presents an auto-ethnographical account of three participatory art projects conducted by the author, with the incarcerated in a governmental disciplinary centre, a Non-Governmental Organization that supports sex workers and three young women in an independent art project in Singapore. It proposes a concept of autogenous cultural practices, which are defined by life practices that neither rely on nor protest the influence of the state on the site of the body and everyday life. Instead autogenous cultural practices establish their own forms of life and measures of value that are in no way dictated by predetermined institutional forms of social life and engagement.

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In Singapore, the discussion of all things community is highly sensitive and potentially provocative. Artists who work with communities risk being politicised for various identitarian purposes. This book presents an auto-ethnographical account of three participatory art projects conducted by the author, with the incarcerated in a governmental disciplinary centre, a Non-Governmental Organization that supports sex workers and three young women in an independent art project in Singapore. It proposes a concept of autogenous cultural practices, which are defined by life practices that neither rely on nor protest the influence of the state on the site of the body and everyday life. Instead autogenous cultural practices establish their own forms of life and measures of value that are in no way dictated by predetermined institutional forms of social life and engagement.

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