Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times: The Revolution Will Be Live

ISBN-13: 9781138325906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Eric J. Schruers; Kristina Olson

Opis

This book analyzes social practice art that has a political agenda. Contributing scholars define this practice, provide historical context, and consider contemporary social practice art that addresses the current volatile political context.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations;  Notes on Contributors;  Acknowledgments;  Introduction;  Part I: Free Radicals: Origins and Proliferation;  1. Thin Generosity: Contemporary Social Practice Art and the Rhetoric of Invitation (Kerr Houston);  2. Fluxus and the Joys of the Small and Slow (Roger Rothman);  3. Taking It to the Streets: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 War Is Over! Campaign (Martha Bari);  Part II: Agents of Social Change: Radical Inclusion/Radical Self-Expression;  4. Reframing Resistance And Surveillance: Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is . . . (Kim Bobier);  5. Tagging 2.0: Graffi ti Research Lab’s Opposition Through Open-Source Technology (Jessica Keough);  6. Subversion of Surveillance: Anonymous Street Art, Artivism, and the Use of Social Media (Heather E. Dunn);  7. What Happens at Burning Man Doesn’t Stay at Burning Man: The Social Conscience of the Artist (Eric J. Schruers);  Part III: Global Perspectives: Reports from the Field;  8. Art of the Street: Revolutionary Symbols in Egypt (Liz Trapp);  9. Looking to the Past: Street Art, Public Spaces, and Contemporary French Identity (Heidi E. Kraus);  10. See What a Difference a Stay Makes: Hotel Transvaal and Kus & Sloop, Arts Hotels, and Social Entrepreneurship (Margo Handwerker);  11. Institutionalizing Protest Art: Agitprop and OFF-Biennale Budapest (Izabel Galliera);  Part IV: Future Forward: The Revolution Will Be Live!;  12. Eat Me: Social Practice Art and the Politics of Food (Kristina Olson);  13. The DJ as Disruptor: Politics, Participation, and Postproduction in Contemporary DJ Culture (Michael D. Slaven);  14. Watching the Watchers: Ai Weiwei and the Art of Surveillance (Eric J. Schruers);  15. Loving Getting (Used to?) Into the Good, Bad, and Ugly (Duncan Mackenzie);  Index