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Grietas invisibles
Escribir y retratar la realidad es similar a llevar una brújula en la mano izquierda y una granada sin espoleta en la derecha. Tarde o temprano, la onda expansiva te alcanza, aflora tus emociones sin rumbo y supera lo que redactaste. Quienes escriben en esta antología tienen una tremenda capacidad de asombro, no exageran porque la realidad supera a la ficción. Se inspiran en su entorno o experiencias personales para escribir. Los participantes engendran textos basados en el maltrato intrafamiliar, homofobia, feminicidios, secuestros, asesinatos, mutilaciones y narcotráfico, que dan cuerpo y forma al título “Grietas Invisibles”.
Museums of the Commons
Museums of the Commons examines L’Internationale, an ongoing confederation between six museums and contemporary art institutions in Europe. Drawing on extensive interviews with the directors, curators, public programs officers in all the museums, as well as artists, critics and members associated with them, the book provides a transversal account that connects the ideas across the various institutions and situates this in the wider visual and social context. Chronicling the challenges faced by the museums, Papastergiadis goes on to situate their responses within the wider political and cultural context that is shaping the future of all contemporary art museums. Five key domains of research...
Archive Species
Archive Species' is an inquiry into the representation of clothed bodies in print media since the 1970s. Artist Joke Robaard and writer Camiel van Winkel have been re-assembling and re-reading the vast archive of fashion and newspaper images that Robaard has collected since 1979. Together they selected images from the archive and arranged them into dynamic series or cycles, generating new narratives and unexpected pathways of signification. Using an artistic strategy of appropriation and alienation, the authors identify crucial connections between body, object, and behaviour, in an elaborate attempt to expose the hidden cultural and political layers of fashion photography. The essays in this book, on topics such the assembled self, the construction and deconstruction of garments, and the metaphorical potential of textile and fabric, should be read in close connection to the prolific visual material.
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Civil Disobedience from Nepal to Norway
This volume explores the shifts in how civil disobedience has come to be theorized, defined, understood, and practised in contemporary politics. As social activism takes increasingly global forms, the goals of individuals and groups who view themselves as disobedient activists today can be defined in broader cultural terms than before, and their relationship to law and violence can be ambiguous. Civil disobedience may no longer be entirely nonviolent, its purposes no longer necessarily serve progressive or emancipatory agendas. Its manifestations often blur the lines established in “classic”, philosophically justified, and self-regulatory forms as epitomised in mass nonviolent protests o...
Thai Art
The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but “Thainess” remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since 1992 (and noting that art history and criticism have lagged behind the mar...
Institutional Attitudes
Introduction : When flatness rules / Pascal Gielen Part I: Transforming attitudes - Institutional imagination : instituting contemporary art minus the 'contemporary' / Pascal Gielen -Where is the critic? / Thijs Lijster -The place of art in art places / Jimmie Durham -Part II: Horizontal strategies? -Institutions as sites of agonistic intervention / Chantal Mouffe -On democracy and occupation : horizontality and the need for new forms of verticality / Isabell Lorey -Indirect action : some misgivings about horizontalism / Mark Fisher -Bartleby's tragic aporia / Sonja Lavaert -Institutionality as enlightenment / Blake Stimson -Part III: Instituting in a flat world -Flatness rules : instituent ...
Design Struggles
This publication offers a critical assessment of the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating, and reinforcing social, political, and environmental problems, both today and in the past. It proposes going against the grain by problematising Western notions of design to foster situated, decolonial, and queer-feminist modes of disciplinary self-critique, and looks at design through the intersections of gender, culture, ethnicity, and class. Applying robust scholarly insight with engaging and accessible modes of conveyance and storytelling, an urgent and expansive array of voices and views emerge from those engaged in struggles with, against, or around the field of design.
