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Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World [Kietas viršelis]

Edited by (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Edited by (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 336 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x189 mm, 56 colour & 60 bw illus
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Aug-2022
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1350265071
  • ISBN-13: 9781350265073
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 336 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x189 mm, 56 colour & 60 bw illus
  • Išleidimo metai: 25-Aug-2022
  • Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • ISBN-10: 1350265071
  • ISBN-13: 9781350265073
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto the streets and into the public eye. More than ever, activism relies on spectacle and visibility in order to be noticed in the era of globalized capitalism and networked media. At the same time, a growing number of artists employ creative strategies to critique the establishment, act in resistance, and demand change. Visual activism of this kind is not new, but it is rapidly evolving.

This anthology presents 16 case-studies of visual activism from across the globe, providing an up-to-date picture of the impact of contemporary visual and art activism, and combining a scholarly interrogation of visual activism with an examination of how it works in practice. The case studies address a wide range of issues including human rights abuses; state violence; gender and sexuality; racism; migration; and climate breakdown. They examine a range of approaches from playful carnivalesque parades to extreme practices such as 'lip-sewing', and are drawn from a wide range of international contexts – from Europe and the US, to Iran, India, Pakistan, Tunisia, and China. This diverse scope enables readers to consider examples comparatively – noticing emerging trends and key differences to reveal how geopolitical and cultural factors play an important role in shaping activist practices.

This rich and timely collection provides a fresh perspective on the possibilities, limitations and politics of visual activism, as activists, artists, and curators respond to the changing world around them in this most uncertain of times.

Recenzijos

With its 16 chapters, this exciting volume introduces readers to a fresh series of contemporary visual practices and, importantly, a valuable range of perspectives that invite us to reflect on what visual activism is, and what it can achieve at a time of multiple crises. An insightful contribution to understanding visual politics in the 21st century. * Paula Serafini, Queen Mary University of London, UK * A valuable contribution to the urgent ongoing debates about the contradictions and paradoxes stemming from activism in the field of visual culture, and art in the field of socio-political action. The book offers some newly-produced critical and theoretical discourses in the context of socially-engaged art that can inform artists, critics, curators, scholars, and activists who are invested in endorsing art as an important and potent social medium. * Suzana Milevska, Independent Curator, Researcher and Art Theorist, North Macedonia/Austria *

Daugiau informacijos

Global case studies in 21st-century visual activism.
List of illustrations
ix
Notes on contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction to the anthology 1(28)
Darcy White
Stephanie Hartle
PART ONE The politics of performance: Acting / Re-enacting and alternative histories
29(110)
1 Making sense and claiming a presence: The social semiotics of visual activism
31(16)
Eve Kalyva
2 A total performance: Invisibility, respectability and resistance in corporate capitalism
47(13)
Jill Gibbon
3 By a thread: The space left to activism when fashion deals with the refugee `crisis'
60(20)
Elsa Gomis
4 Digging up the left-wing corpse? Visual activism and melancholia in Jeremy Deller's, The Battle of Orgreave
80(14)
Stephanie Hartle
5 Imperialism, empathy and healing in Rajkamal Kahlon's artistic activism
94(13)
Margaret Tali
6 Shooting back / Speaking forward: Decolonial strategies in the work of Sasha Huber
107(32)
Temi Odumosu
Sasha Huber
PART TWO Places of protest: Public space and citizenship
139(94)
7 Visible speechlessness: A critical approach to image acts of lip-sewing
141(18)
Amelie Ochs
Ana Lena Werner
8 `Ripples in water': Minor episodes of feminist visual activism by three women artists in the PRC (2007-15)
159(16)
Monica Merlin
9 `America is Black,' Indigenous and Muslim: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's public challenges to white nationalism
175(13)
Stefanie Snider
10 Farida Batool: A Pakistani visual activist
188(12)
Amina Ejaz
11 Jason deCaires Taylor's submerged sculptures and the iconography of slow violence
200(11)
Karen Stock
12 Keeping the peace: The visual in the `struggle' of non-violent activism in a global existential crisis
211(22)
Darcy White
PART THREE Connectivity online: Digital activism and the networked image
233(68)
13 Montage and vernacular spectatorship: The role played by YouTube channel AnarChnowa as a tool of visual activism in post-14 January 2011 Tunisia
235(17)
Marianna Liosi
14 Sociality, appearance and surveillance in digital political activism
252(12)
Stefka Hristova
15 Rendering the invisible visible: Menstrual activism in contemporary India
264(18)
Sugandha Sehgal
16 Unruly Images: The Activist Visuality of Technical and Bodily Disruptions on Instagram
282(19)
Vendela Grundell Gachoud
Index 301
Stephanie Hartle is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Darcy White is Principal Lecturer in Visual Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.