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Truth is Concrete A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics
This publication charts very different tactics and strategies, written by practitioners from all over the world, mapping the broad field of engaged art and artistic activism in our times. Essays by Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Florian Malzacher, Chantal Mouffe, Gerald Raunig and Jonas Staal.
Art and Agenda: Political Art and Activism
Artists’ work and critical texts.
Festival Panorama 2011
Festival Programme for the 20th edition. Two performance programmes in folder.
A Guidebook of Alternative Nows
Illuminates ways of devising more socially, economically, and ecologically just versions of now.
Living as Form : Socially engaged art from 1991 - 2011
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.
Life Models : What kind of role does art actually play in society ?
Article asking whether art circulates beyond the sphere of the art world.
Beautiful Trouble
Part manifesto and part reference guide: brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of artists and activists from around the world.
The Yes Men Fix the World
This documentary features the politically engaged con artists known as the Yes Men, who stage elaborate hoaxes to expose corporate malfeasance using guerrilla tactics. Among the stunts are promises to pay restitution to local citizens while impersonating executives from corporations like Dow — whose explosion contaminated an Indian village — and BP. They also pose as representatives from Haliburton and introduce the SurvivaBall, an inflatable orb designed to withstand catastrophe.
The Interventionists
Accompanies the exhibit at MASS MoCA and serves as a user’s guide to art that is exciting, provocative, unexpected, inspiring (artistically and politically).
This item is part of the Study Room Guide: A Bi(bli)ography of Insurrectionary Imaginati by John Jordan (P0793)
Affirmation and/as Resistance
On the strategy of subversive affirmation in current media activist projects (including some examples from the field of contemporary performance.
Part of the Performing Action, Performing Thinking edition.
In Slovenian and English.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).