This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call "little resistances," determine the limited yet potentially powerful political impact of art. From different angles, seventeen authors consider the spaces where art events occur as "political spaces," and explore how such spaces host events of disagreements in migratory culture. The newly coined word "migratory" refers to the sensate traces of the movements of migration that characterize contemporary culture. In other words, movement is not an...
This book explores the idea that art can enact small-scale resistances against the status quo in the social domain. These acts, which we call "little ...
In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes on art's political agency, Bal explores perception through an intense engagement with the work of Belgian sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens. In a series of vividly-recalled encounters with Janssen's practice over a number of years, Balpresents a new conception of embodied perception - art...
In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its mea...
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years of Ahtila's practice, including such seminal works as The Annunciation, Where Is Where? and The House, Bal searches for the places where theoretical and artistic practices intersect, to create radical spaces in which genuinely democratic acts are performed. Bringing together different...
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part...
This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language and storytelling in particular deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabate, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann explore ways in which science and rhetoric, politics and fiction, science and storytelling, and ethics and aesthetics are deeply and creatively imbricated with each other, rather than distinct and autonomous."
This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language and storytelling in particu...
This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language and storytelling in particular deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabate, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann explore ways in which science and rhetoric, politics and fiction, science and storytelling, and ethics and aesthetics are deeply and creatively imbricated with each other, rather than distinct and autonomous."
This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language and storytelling in particu...
