Socially Engaged Art, Critics and Discontents: An Interview with Claire Bishop
This article originally appeared in Community Arts Network in July 2006 and was reprinted in Artistic Bedfellows: Histories, Theories, and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices edited by Holly Crawford and published by University Press of America, 2008. By Jennifer Roche What criteria should we use to evaluate socially engaged art? London-based critic Claire Bishop recently raised provocative questions and poked at the critical status quo about the discourse surroundin