In spectator arts you are placed in a situation where you can only react. You’re once again back in childhood, subject to the wellmeaning intention of others. Spectator arts are infantilising! Participatory arts are for grown ups! Participatory arts reclaim creativity for Everybody. The socially isolated artist, the creative genius, was a product of modernistic individualism. The creative community and the collective creating in participatory arts is an expression of postmodernity. Modernity’s individualism was in reality just something for an elect group, the elite. Participatory arts reinvent the basis of all liberation: You are the creator of your own world. ELGE LARSSON
elge@interactingarts.org
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