Artists creating spaces for participant engagement, discourse - An Incomplete List

ARTISTS WHO CREATE SPACES FOR PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT, DISCOURSE AND MANIPULATE CLIENT EXPERIENCE

Artists who create Spaces for different forms of interaction - open spaces for development, detournement include


Jeppe Hein - invisible labyrinth

Olafur Eliason - Weather Project

Liam Gillick - Discussion Platform

Rikrit Tirvanija - The Land Project

Lia Perjowski - Centre for Art Analysis

Utopia Station - Not just one artist

Mike Nelson
Nelson builds large scale environments - theatrical, yet seemingly real, elaborate and intensely engaging. They are also enormously time consuming to construct. This installation was built over two months and filled an empty 2,600 square feet space with 16 rooms, a mezzanine, and 190 running feet of corridor...

Gelatin
Gelitin is a group of four artists working together in Vienna - Tobias Urban, Wolfgang Gantner, Florian Reither and Ali Janka. They met in 1978 and formed a partnership in 1993. Gelitin have shown in many international exhibitions including "Dionysiac," at the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the first Moscow Biennial, both earlier this year. In 2003 they were commissioned to make a performance for the first Frieze Art Fair, London, and in 2002 they made events for the Gwangju and Liverpool Biennials. Gelitin represented Austria at the 2001 Venice Biennale. Later this year they will appear in the first Performance Biennial in New York and the Art Sheffield 05 citywide forum opening October 28th”. Gagosian gallery

"to feel like a humongous implosion, sucking you into deep and profound chaos, instability, joy and pure wonder. It offers visitors a chance to relax, paddle and freak out. Fresh clean waterfalls, slimy sofa islands, bridges of fear and beauty, all these miracles are made from leftovers of living and provide the terrain of the 'Sweatwat.'

Steve Willats - Multiple Clothing - MESSAGE INTERACTION EXCHANGE

'Multiple Clothing' presents a selection of clothing-based works by British artist Stephen Willats', spanning 40 years of practice. Willats began his project 'Multiple Clothing' in 1965 as a strategy to engage directly with the fabric of society, exploring clothing as a very basic externalising of the self. Made up as kits, the clothing designs were created out of many small units that zipped (or later Velcroed) together in various formations to make multiple garment types - including simple shift dresses and jackets. The self-determining nature of acquiring and assembling these kits to each wearers' specification was essentially an amplification of the notion of self-organisation, a key principle beginning to emerge in the politics, philosophy, science and art of this era. The modish, geometric primary-coloured panel designs of Willats early costumes recall the geometric stylistics displayed in early avant-garde ballet and theatre designs in their clean, functional sense of modernity, as well as embodying a spirit of the Sixties with their use of contemporaneous synthetic fabrics. A defining element of Willats wearable artworks was the 'thesaurus' of words that were available to be inserted into the clear plastic pockets, either by the wearer, or by other people that the wearer interacted with. The selection was chosen by the artist from words that describe human thought, mood and behaviour. Over subsequent decades Willats has developed and transformed the look and nature of garment-based works into many alternative situations, including a key period in the early to middle Eighties when he made a series of collaborations with the subcultures of London's thriving club scene. Performances involving the works have continued throughout the projects' lifetime, including influential stagings at the ICA, London, and Daniel Bucholtz Galerie, Cologne. SHOWstudio