Abstract
The theory of “Performance Turn” suggested by Urry and Larsen’s The Tourist Gaze 3.0 enabled the view on tourism as a process of reality construction in a tourist site by analyzing the “participation” acts of tourists. This article aims to consider the meaning of “participation” in different kinds of participation-type tourisms such as art tourism. Participation of the audience in contemporary cultural representations is the result of “affordance” and “performance,” which also responds to affordance. This process is the same in the representation style of contemporary art and tourism. Art and tourism require audience or tourists participation. “Participation” in art and tourism can be seen in two different ways. One is the method to exploit “participation” in consumer or environment-controlled societies, and the other is the approach to overcome the control. The theories of socially engaged art demonstrate that the radical democracy of communications, which accepts the dissensus of others, is essential for the latter.
