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We have a Situation!: Cyberformance and Civic Engagement in Post-Democracy

We have a Situation!: Cyberformance and Civic Engagement in Post-Democracy

Helen Varley Jamieson
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522516651|ISBN10: 1522516654|EISBN13: 9781522516668
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1665-1.ch017
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Jamieson, Helen Varley. "We have a Situation!: Cyberformance and Civic Engagement in Post-Democracy." Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement, edited by Ryan Shin, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 297-317. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1665-1.ch017

APA

Jamieson, H. V. (2017). We have a Situation!: Cyberformance and Civic Engagement in Post-Democracy. In R. Shin (Ed.), Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement (pp. 297-317). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1665-1.ch017

Chicago

Jamieson, Helen Varley. "We have a Situation!: Cyberformance and Civic Engagement in Post-Democracy." In Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement, edited by Ryan Shin, 297-317. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1665-1.ch017

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Abstract

“We have a situation!” is an ongoing political performance project that uses cyberformance (live online performance, also known as networked performance) to provoke conversations around urgent contemporary issues. Through heterarchical co-creation processes and real-time online events, temporary networked communities emerge and engage in creative problem-solving. The fifth “situation,” created at Multicidade Festival in Rio de Janeiro in November 2015, addressed the problem of water pollution in the context of the approaching 2016 Olympic Games. This chapter chronicles the process of creating and presenting this event and proposes that cyberformance fosters an intimate proto-political form of online engagement as a positive alternative to increasingly commodified activism in commercialised internet spaces. The author, who is the lead artist of “We have a situation!” concludes that networked arts projects - in social, artistic and educational contexts - have an important role to play in the post-democratic reconfiguration of civic engagement, agency and activism.

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