Social practice is an art medium focusing on engagement through human interaction and social discourse.[1] Since people and their relationships form the medium of such works – rather than a particular process of production – social engagement is not only a part of a work’s organization, execution, or continuation, but also an aesthetic in itself: of interaction and development.[2] Socially engaged art aims to create social and/or political change through collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions in the creation of participatory art.[3] The discipline values the process of a work over any finished product or object.[1]
Artists working in social practice co-create their work with a specific audience or propose critical interventions within existing social systems to inspire debate or catalyze social exchange.[4] The large overlap between social practice and pedagogy demonstrates the need for art education to embrace collaborative practice.[5] Social practice work focuses on the interaction between the audience, social systems, and the artist through aesthetics, ethics, collaboration, methodology, antagonism, media strategies, and social activism.[6] READ MORE HERE:
