Audience participation in cultural projects: Bringing the organization back

Alice Anbérrée (), Nicolas Aubouin (), Emmanuel Coblence () and Frédéric Kletz ()
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Alice Anbérrée: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes
Emmanuel Coblence: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Based on the observation that cultural institutions are increasingly interested in developing participatory projects, we pose the following question: How and to what degree can participatory projects lead to a transformation of the organization, similar to the activation of the work of art via the gaze of the spectator? Based on three case studies, we shall demonstrate that, while audience participation in the cultural field has developed apace and has effectively transformed the relation of participants to the worlds of art, it has not, as a practice, succeeded in penetrating the frontiers of the organization beyond different ad hoc services. We explain this phenomenon in reference to the need to implement organizational change further upstream, and to the difficulty inherent in making available specific approaches to evaluating participatory projects.

Keywords: Cultural projects; Audience participation; organization theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in International Journal of Arts Management, 2015, 18 (1), pp.29-42

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