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Over and Over and Over Again
Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory. As a critical act of repetition, which is never neutral in reactualizing the past, it has established unconventional modes of historicization and narration. Collecting work by artists, scholars, curators, and museum administrators, the volume investigates reenactment's potential for a (re)activation of layered temporal experiences, and its value as an ongoing interpretative and political gesture performed in the present with an eye to the future. Its contributions discuss the mobilization of archives in the struggle for inclusiveness and cultural revisionism; the role of the body in the presentification and rehabilitation of past events and (impermanent) objects; the question of authenticity and originality in artistic practice, art history, as well as in museum collections and conservation practices.
Under Construction
While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect the thorough discussions of identity concepts of the past three decades. It also calls for an ever keener awareness of and capacity to deal with the complexity and diversity of the world we live in. Artists play a major role in the potential reflection and transformation of perceptions and conceptions of the world – musicians, dancers, choreographers, spoken word artists, performance artists, actors, also fine art, installation, media artists or photographers alike. “Per...
Humor in Global Contemporary Art
Pursuing a new and timely line of research in world art studies, Humor in Global Contemporary Art is the first edited collection to examine the role of culturally specific humor in contemporary art from a global perspective. Since the 1960s, increasing numbers of artists from around the world have applied humor as a tool for observation, critique, transformation, and debate. Exploring how humorous art produced over the past six decades is anchored in local sociopolitical contexts and translated or misconstrued when exhibited abroad, this book opens new conversations regarding the functioning of humor and the ways in which art travels across the globe. With contributions by an impressive arra...
Race, identité et mondialisation en Afrique australe
L'Afrique australe est moins connue en France que le reste du continent africain, car l'influence de notre pays s'y est peu exercée. C'est à l'ensemble de la Communauté de Développement de l'Afrique Australe que s'intéresse cet ouvrage, qui regroupe des contributions consacrées aux questions de « race » et d'identité telles qu'elles se sont posées et construites au cours des ans, avant comme après l'arrivée des Européens et à la suite des indépendances.
Formes de l'agir créatif
Un motif théorique saillant s'est imposé dans le champ des études de la culture et des arts depuis les années 1970 : celui de la figure active du sujet de la réception, telle une incarnation de l'émancipation face à une œuvre. Les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage montrent qu'il existe d'autres pratiques artistiques et culturelles collectives d'émancipation, et que leur étude pourrait se passer des catégories herméneutiques de lecteur et de spectateur. Comment peut-on alors appréhender ces formes de l'agir créatif ? À quel niveau portent-elles les outils de leur propre théorisation ? En s'arrêtant aussi bien sur les nouvelles technologies de production des images que sur les initiatives qui investissent des lieux publics, l'ouvrage donne matière à penser à nouveaux frais l'articulation entre subjectivation et changements sociaux, tout comme les enjeux politiques des pratiques culturelles et les conditions de leur intégration dans le champ élargi de l'art.
Women in Art and Literature Networks
"This book examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centers on the concept of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories. Within the framework of feminist history and gender studies, the book looks at the careers of salonni�res, gallery owners, editors and all types of artists, in Europe and in the USA. They may be famous (Carolee Schneemann) or less so (Yvonne Serruys), they may or may not have been openly feminist, but they have all used networking as a strategy to defend their artistic choices or their vision of the world, as well as to help and support one another."
Acts of Transgression
Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-...
Theatrum Botanicum
This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015-18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics. Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses to, and dynamic agents in, history. It links nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity across different geographies, histories, and systems of knowledge--exploring the variety of curative, spiritual, and economic powers of plants. The project addresses "botanical nationalism" and "flower diplomacy" during apartheid; plant migration; the ...
Beyond the Black Atlantic
A groundswell of complex events around the globe have made discussion surrounding the Western Eurocentric, often prejudiced notion of ?Blackness± even more relevant and controversial in recent years. Social conflicts in Western societies that were long thought to have been overcome ? such as those in the United States, for example ? have sparked new awareness among members of the Black community and simultaneously brought the idea of a global, polyphonic Black culture (the ?Black Atlantic±) to the fore. Coined in the year 1993 by British sociologist Paul Gilroy his book ?The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness± is considered a key work of contemporary research on the cultur...
