As part of my bachelor's degree in Art college I had to write a thesis on a subject of my own choosing. If you're not familiar, ever wondered what an Art college thesis might be like? I chose to write my thesis on the reasons why a form of contemporary socially engaged art, called Dialogical Art, came about. In this episode I read out and discuss the thesis that I wrote. Some of the topics include: Guy Debord's book called Society of the Spectacle; some past forms of socially engaged art; why Installation Art came about; Relational Aesthetics and Dialogical Art practices.

And here are some other words that come up in discussion in relation to this kind of art: Socially engaged art, Community art,

Experimental communities, 

Interventionist art, Participatory art,

Collaborative art, Contextual art, Useful art, and Social practice.

Some key writers in relation to these types of art are: Claire Bishop, Grant Kester and Nicolas Bourriaud.

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