For an Art of Participation
The principle of participation seems to offer an infinite potential for an economy that attempts to commodify all aspects of human existence. In this environment, participatory performance loses all of its subversive potential and becomes, in fact, the epitome of normative performance for the twenty first century. Taking as its main point of reference cases of coopted factories in Argentina and Bosnia, Jakovljević argues that the only relevant forms of participatory performance today are those that decisively reject the separation between aesthetic and productive performance in order to engage full production and affective relations of all participants, thus forging a common base of solidarity, collaboration, and engagement.