This ethnographic essay analyzes This Progress, an interactive artwork by Tino Sehgal, shown at the Guggenheim in New York City. This “constructed situation” violates conventional expectations of interaction and art, with the aim of fostering meaningful conversations among strangers. The article explores what kinds of talk emerged in these encounters, illuminating possibilities for and challenges to participatory political culture in public spaces in and beyond the museum.
2014
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