Engaging publics, public engagement.

Includes bibliographical references.

Engaging publics / Zara Stanhope -- Questions for engaging publics: an interview with Jeanne van Heeswijk / Zara Stanhope -- Interrogating institutions. Art as enterprise / Grace McQuilten -- On the move! / Gretchen Coombs -- Confounding and destabilising a town: Christoph Büchel's Southdale at MONA / Amy Spiers -- What use is a tea towel? / Keely Macarow -- Why; not what / Tracey Williams -- Social intentions of non-participatory art in the public sphere / Layne Waerea -- Sharing and surveying. A break in proceedings / Public Share Collective -- Together work: in perspective and through practice / Carol Stakenas, Jules Rochielle, Jacqueline Bell -- Nature as public. Engaging publics: art, ecologies and the urban environment / Janine Randerson, Amanda Yates -- Edges of the local: the flow of risk (political and physical) in recent works / Alex Monteith -- Liminal terrain / Andy Thomson, Paul Cullen -- Negotiating place, space and publics. The transitional economic zone of Aotearoa / Sophie Jerram, Mark Amery of Letting Space -- Engaging the para-site(s) to revive art-life / Victoria O'Sullivan, Janita Craw -- Reciprocity in the space of display / Tanya Eccleston -- Challenging spatial definitions through engagement with a counterpublic / Tosh Ahkit -- Public engagement and street activation: drawing the inside out St Paul Street, Auckland City / Olivia Labb, Eu Jin Chua -- Empty gesture: complexities of participation in contemporary art practice / Sarah Rodigari.

"The social and critical possibilities of creative practice have been the topic of rigorous discussion in a number of disciplines, foremost art, for several decades. Current conversations about art engaging with communities cross a range of debates that extend from the arena of the politics and aesthetics of art practice. Engaging Publics/Public Engagement presents a compilation of approaches and critical perspectives from artists, designers, creative practitioners and collectives in New Zealand, Australia and Europe and offers broad insights into the dynamic space of relations between art and publics."--Back cover.