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Dark Matter : Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise and Culture
Artist/Author: Gregory Sholette | Reference: P1907 | ISBN: 978-0-7453-2752-5 | Type: Publication

Investigation into collective and collaborative creative practice of marginalised artists of the art world. Reverend Billy Talent and the political economy of the art world. This article is referenced in the Platform Study Room Guide (P1820) and can be found in the Miscellaneous Articles 4 Binder.

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Living as Form : Socially engaged art from 1991 - 2011
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Nato Thompson | Reference: P1920 | ISBN: 978-0-262-01734-3 | Type: Publication

Living as Form grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a survey of more than 100 projects that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics.

activism Ai Weiwei Ala Plástica Amal Kenawy archive art Ata Hasheminejad Athi-Patra Ruga Basurama Bita Fayyazi Bread and Puppet Theatre Brian Holmes Buster Simpson camp Carol Becker Chemi Rosado Seijo Chto Delat? Claire Bishop class Colectivo Cambalache Complaints Choir Cornerstone Theater Company Cybermohalla Ensemble Decolonizing Architecture direct action Essex Street Market feminism feminist Fran Ilich Francis Alys Fritz Haeg gender Helena Producciones intervention Jeanne van Heeswijk Jeremy Deller Josh Greene Katerina edá Laurie Jo Reynolds Long March Project Mammalian Diving Maria Lind Mel Chin methodologies methodology Michihiro Shimabuku Mierle Laderman Ukeles Minerva Cuevas Navin Rawanchaikul No One Is Illegal participation Pase Usted Paul Glover Pedro Reyes performance art Peter Watkins Phil Collins Piratbyrån politics protest Public Movement public space Pulska Grupa Rick Lowe Shannon Jackson Slanguage socially engaged Steve Lambert Suzanne Lacy Teddy Cruz The Land Foundation The U.S. Social Forum The Yes Men Theaster Gates theatre Ultra-red Urban Bush Women urban planning visual art Voina Wikileaks Women on Waves

But is it Art ? The Spirit of Art Activism
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Nina Felshin | Reference: P1905 | ISBN: 978-0-941920-29-2 | Type: Publication

An anthology that explores the rise of activist public art that agitates for social change.

ACT UP activism agitation AIDS America art body politics class criticism direct action documentation eco politics feminism feminist gender Gran Fury Group Material Guerrilla Girls history homeless mass media Oeggy Diggs performance art politics protest sexuality social change Suzanne Lacey theory Women's Action Coalition

The Cultural Resistance Reader
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Stephen Duncombe | Reference: P1894 | ISBN: 978-1-85984-379-6 | Type: Publication

Brings together classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance.

Abbie Hoffman activism activists anarchy Antonio Gramsci Bertolt Brecht C.L.R. James Christopher Hill criticism culture-jam Dick Hebdige direct action environment Eric Hobsbawm ethics feminism feminist gender Hakim Bey history human rights intervention Janice Radway Karl Marx lesbian Mahatma Gandhi Matthew Arnold Mikhail Bakhtin money new media political popular culture protest Raymond Williams riot grrrl Robin Kelley sexuality site specific socially engaged Stuart Hall subculture subvert technology Theodor Adorno theory Tom Frank Virginia Woolf Walter Benjamin women

Beautiful Trouble
Artist/Author: Various | Editor: Andrew Boyd with David Oswald Mitchell | Reference: P1896 | ISBN: 978-1-935938-57-7 | Type: Publication

Part manifesto and part reference guide: brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of artists and activists from around the world.

activism activists Agit-Pop Alliance of Community Trainers anarchy Beyond the Choir Code Pink criticism culture-jam direct action environment ethics history human rights intervention L. M. Bogad money new media Nonviolence International performance political Principles protest site specific SmartMeme socially engaged subculture subvert tactics technology The Center for Artistic Activism The Other 98% The Ruckus Society The Yes Men theories theory Waging Nonviolence Yes Labs

Social Surrealism, Original Recordings
Artist/Author: Jeremy Deller | Reference: D1854 | ISBN: 978-3-86984-052-9 | Type: DVD

Audio recordings of Jeremy Deller discussing the following subjects: Our Hobby is Depeche Mode, Andy Warhol, The Battle of Orgreave, the Art World is a very Middle Class Place, Processions, Churches and Museums, Night at the Museum, Political Art, New Projects, Acid Brass, Glam Rock, Memory Bucket and Social Surrealism

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Legacies of Tactical Media
Artist/Author: Eric Kluitenberg | Editor: Greet Lovink and Sabine Niederer | Reference: P1866 | ISBN: 978-90-816021-8-1 | Type: Publication

Tactical Media employ the ‘tactics of the weak’ to operate on the terrain of strategic power by means of ‘any media necessary’, this notebook traces the legacies of tactical media to begin creating these hybrid cartographies

activism anti-austerity direct action money movement new media Occupy political social media social networking technology

Joy in People
Artist/Author: Jeremy Deller | Reference: P1863 | ISBN: 978-1-85332-294-5 | Type: Publication
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Study Room Guide: Take the Money and Run? Some Positions on Ethics, Business Sponsorship and Making
Artist/Author: Jane Trowell, Platform | Reference: P1820 | Type: Publication

There are lots of guides for artists on how to earn a living from art or how to raise funds to support making it, but few which help us ask what the ethical implications are of the routes we choose. In this Study Room Guide, arts, social justice and environmental group Platform has selected some key texts that they think are useful in helping to position yourself ethically with regard to financing or supporting artistic practice through business or corporate sponsorship.

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Trashing Performance, Outsider Actions, Panel
Artist/Author: Platform & Liberate Tate, Rocio Boliver, Bavand Behpoor | Reference: D2104 | Type: DVD

Part of the Trashing Performance programme – the second year of Performance Matters – 25-29th October 2011.

Bavand Behpoor direct action Gavin Butt La Congelada de Uva Liberate Tate Performance Matters Platform Rocio Boliver Trashing Performance Talks

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