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Does it Work?: The Æffect of Activist Art
Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art.
What’s the Use?: Constellations of Art, History and Knowledge - A Critical Reader
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Takes as a starting point the premise that art is best understood in dialogue with the social sphere, and examines how the exchange between art, knowledge and use has historically been set up and played out.
Catalogue - Venice International Performance Art Week 2014: Ritual Body - Political Body
Festival catalogue.
Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
Explores the processes through which specific populations are figured as ‘revolting’ as well as the practices through which these populations ‘revolt’ against their subjectification.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
9.5 Theses on Art and Class : And Other Writings
Seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of political art, to the troubled status of “outsider” and street art, to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself in a dysfunctional world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)
‘Illegal’ Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
Explores the issue of borders and border crossing in the era of globalization and transnationalism, analyzing how the nation-state system regulates movements of people.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Fiction Reconstructed: Eastern Europe, Post-Socialism & the Retro-Avant-Garde
A radical theorization of a particular (Eastern European) position / repoliticization, this book offers a very detailed inquiry into specific Post-Socialist art and media strategies.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
What’s the Use?: Constellations of Art, History and Knowledge - A Critical Reader
This publication takes as a starting point the premise that art is best understood in dialogue with the social sphere, and examines how the exchange between art, knowledge and use has historically been set up and played out.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
From Medieval guilds to today’s social networks, Sennett’s book explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Kids (P3091).
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Rooted in Anzaldua’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenge how we think about identity. Borderelands remaps our understanding of what a “border” is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
