Research Article

Participation in Cultural Policies: Ideological Roots and Institutional Use

Noa Mamrud

2023


Socially Engaged Art in a New World Order

P. 105-123

DOI: 10.14361/zkmm-2023-0105

Language: English

Abstract

Participation is a widely discussed subject matter in cultural policy. Over the years, scholars and practitioners have approached it in a variety of ways as policy paradigms have evolved; today these paradigms demonstrate a complex understanding of culture and what participation in art and culture means. Requirements from public administration have sought to promote cultural offers with increasingly higher levels of participation, though with a varied set of interests behind them. By attending to several of these paradigms—excellence, cultural democratisation, cultural democracy, and creative industry—with a perspective that is unique to socially engaged art, this article highlights the tensions that arise in the question of means for cultural production, and further problematises the institutional use of the combined notions of art and participation.

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