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Making Difference: Mapping the Discursive Terrain of Multiculturalism
A critical examination of the varieties of multiculturalism and the way they structure difference.
Queer Lovers and Hateful Others: Regenerating Violent Times and Places
Berlin is once more capital of queer arts and tourism. Queerness is more visible today than it has been for decades, but at what cost? This book argues that queer subjects have become a lovely sight only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the ‘homophobic migrant’ who is rendered by society as hateful, homophobic and disposable.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression
Shows how contemporary art is a powerful yet largely unacknowledged player in the articulation of depression in Western culture, both adopting and challenging scientific definitions of the condition. Ross explores the ways in which contemporary art performs the detached aesthetics of depression, exposing the viewer's loss of connection and ultimately redefining the function of the image.
Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe
This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.
Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art
Publication that accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts.
A Partial Correction to the Representations of Earth Culture Sent Out to Extraterrestrials on the Un
Catalogue of the photo/text installation by the artist attempting to “correct” conventional presentations of marginalised and radical histories.
Disrupted Borders – An Intervention in Definitions of Boundaries
This book and the accompanying exhibition reflect on “otherness” in the attempt to escape from the European rhetoric of modernism endorsing a plurality of art-making practices.
Seeing Differently: A history of identification and the visual arts
A history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture.
Displacement & Difference
On the contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.
