Below is a glossary article post in the category P which discusses the explanation of the meaning, definition and meaning of the acronym, term, jargon, or termonology of Participatory Art based on summaries from various types of sources (references) that are relevant, related, and trustworthy.
Understanding Participatory Art
So, what is actually meant by Participatory Art?
Participatory art is a term that describes the form of art that directly involves the audience in the creative process so that they become participants in the event.
Explanation of Participatory Art
In this case, the artist is seen as a collaborator and co-producer of the situation (with the audience), and this situation can often have an unclear beginning or end.
Participatory arts have their origin in futurist and chest performances in the early twentieth centuries, which are designed to provoke, fake, and stir the public. In the late 1950s, artist Allan Kaprow designed a show called happenings, where he would force the audience to participate in that experience. French filmmakers and writers Guy Debord, the founder of Situationism, also promoted a form of participatory art where he wanted to eliminate the position of the audience by designing industrial paintings: paintings made en masse. Chetwynd’s contemporary artist monster is entirely dependent on participants who are willing to create their performances, such as activist artists Tania Bruguera. In the value of the work surplus, participants are asked to wait in the queue and then randomly chosen to those who can enter the work and others who are submitted to the lied detector test, to highlight the problem of immigration.
Moreover, as we have seen above, this term is one of a collection of dictionaries, acronyms, terms, jargon, or terminology in the field of arts that begins with an alphabet or prefix P, as well as terms associated with P.
Meaning of Participatory Art in the English, Indonesian (Including Javanese and Sundanese), and Malaysian Translation Dictionary
Apart from discussing the meaning and discussion of the definition, to deepen it further, here we also need to know what the word means in the English, Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese) translation dictionaries, as well as Malaysia (Malay).
For easy understanding, in this glossary post, we will explain it in the form of a list of translations of terms from various types of languages as follows:
- English; Terminology = Participatory Art.
- Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese translations); Terminology = Seni partisipatif (Indonesian), Seni partisipasi (Java), and Seni partisipis in Sundanese.
- Malaysian; Terminology = Seni Partisipatif.
Closing
OK, above there is the discussion and explanation of what is the meaning of Participatory Art.
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Footnotes
This glossary post was created by referring to the conclusions of the meaning of definitions from various authoritative relevant references such as Wikipedia, Britannica and several other sources such as MoMA, Tate, ModernArts, and so on. This word is one of a collection of terminology in the field of Art which begins with the alphabet or prefix P. This article wasupdated in Dec of 2025.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=participatory-art
- https://www.britannica.com/search?query=participatory-art
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