Challenging Participation

Markus Miessen
The Nightmare of Participation
(Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality)
English edition published by Sternberg Press, Berlin
October 2010, 304 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-1-934105-07-8

'...encourages the role of what he calls the "crossbench practitioner," an "uninterested outsider" and "uncalled participator" who is not limited by existing protocols, and who enters the arena with nothing but creative intellect and the will to generate change.' ( press release)

Introduction by Eyal Weizman, a conversation with Chantal Mouffe, an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and post-scripts by Bassam El Baroni, Jeremy Beaudry, and Carson Chan

Immanence

Looking for a way of talking about the immanent moment - the one at the site of encounter between a work of art and a viewer. Anish Kapor talks about making work that creates a sense of awe in a viewer/participant. But I'm not talking about a spiritual sense here, but a bodied sensation leading to thinking and transformation.
So now considering Deleuze and the 'Plane of immanence' - see Wikipedia http://bit.ly/TXiY for starters.