Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis : Aesthetic Resilience.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Routledge Research in Art and Politics Series .
- Routledge Research in Art and Politics Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Taking Aesthetics from Resistance to Resilience -- PART I: Resilience: Searching for New Weapons While Fleeing -- 1. Resilience Thinking, Storytelling, and Aesthetic Resilience -- 2. But Does it Work in Theory? Androcentric Blind Spots and Omissions -- 3. Learning from Documenta? Aesthetic Resilience and the Politics of Institutionalized Art -- 4. Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction -- 5. Movement of Movements: Resilient Strategies in the 'Global South' -- PART II: Global Conjunctions of Aesthetic Resilience -- 6. Of Tricksters and Zombies: Re-imagining Outsideness in Contemporary Russian Activist Art -- 7. An Alloy Made from Art and Activism, in North Macedonia -- 8. Drones and Streets: On the Image Composition of the Tahrir and Gezi Occupations -- 9. The Resilient City: When Social Activism Meets Media Arts in Hong Kong -- 10. Art-activism in Decolonizing a South African University Space -- PART III: Artistic Practices of Embodied Resilience -- 11. Feminist and Anti-Racist Graffiti: Disrupting Public Space in the 1970s in Britain -- 12. The Black Radical: Fungibility, Activism, and Portraiture in These Times -- 13. Practicing Aesthetic Resilience through Collaboration -- 14. Embodied Narratives: Dance, Corporeality, and Creative Processes -- Index.
This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s.