ISSP 2019 Publication - Photography and the World

1 Aesthetics and Ethics
• What are aesthetics
in a participatory practice?
• What are ethics
in a participatory practice?
• What is the role of aesthetics
in a participatory practice?
• What is the role of ethics
in a participatory practice?
• What does a participatory
practice look like?
• Who made it look like this?
And how did they
make it look this way?
• Does the same code of ethics
apply to all participatory practices?
• How are these ethics defined?
Who defines the ethics
of the practice? Can these ethics
be perceived in the work?
• Is it important that they are?
• Can a methodology employed
an artist enable or limit the agency
of the participant?
• How does this methodology register
in the work?
• Is it possible for a participatory practice
to be successful?
• Can there be a best practice for
a participatory practice?
• Should there be? If so, how?
• If not, why not? In either case,
what might this look like?
• What happens when you leave?
What are some of the considerations
when the work is shared with
audiences not involved in the creation
of the work?
• What ethical concerns are important
when exhibiting or publishing the work?
2 Process or Product?
• What is most important
in a participatory practice,
the process or the product?
• Is there a difference?
• Who is the process for?
• Who is the product for?
• How can an artist retain agency
throughout the process of
creating work? How / by what might
this agency be affected?
059 Why be an artist?
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What do other artists do?