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Engaged practice
Susan Jones explores the way artists interact with audiences through projects and schemes which involve social or environmental contexts.
Socially-engaged practice is a term covering an approach to visual arts practice where people and social or environmental contexts and the artistic and aesthetic concerns of artists are brought together for mutual examination, exchange and experimentation.
In such a practice, where an artist may be perceived by others as a researcher, animateur, anthropologist, management guru or visionary, traditional notions of object, commodity, control and authorship are redefined.
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