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Visual activism in the 21st century : art, protest and resistance in an uncertain world

Contributor(s): Publisher: London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022Distributor: [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781350265073
  • 9781350265103
  • 1350265101
  • 9781350265097
  • 1350265098
  • 9781350265080
  • 135026508X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NX180.S6 V53 2022eb
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Contents:
1.Introduction / Stephanie Hartle and Darcy White (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) -- 2. Protest and Political Art -- Perspectives from the late 20th Century The fugitive visuality of activism in the late 20th century / Chris Goldie (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Art into Society ; Society into Art: a case study, Lucy Bayley (Tate Galleries, UK) and Juliette Desorgues (Independent Scholar, France and UK) -- 3. Art and Agency Shooting Back, Speaking Forward: Decolonising strategies in the work of Sasha Huber / Sasha Huber (Aalto University, Finland) and Temi Odumosu (Malmo University, Sweden) Jason deCaires Taylor's Submerged Sculptures and the Iconography of Slow Violence, Karen Stock Professor of Art (Winthrop University, USA) ; Rajkamal Kahlon's potential history / Margaret Tali (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) ; Digging up the Left-Wing Corpse? Visual Activism and Melancholia in Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave / Stephanie Hartle (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) -- 4. Women at the Margins Acts of Power & Hope. Visual Activism by Women Artists in the People's Republic of China / Monica Merlin (Birmingham City University, UK) ; Farida Batool: A Pakistani Visual Activist / Amina Ejaz (Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan) --
Summary: "The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protestors 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 22 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 'gluing-on' and 'lip-sewing', and are drawn from a wide range of international contexts -- from Europe and the US to Israel, Palestine, 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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1.Introduction / Stephanie Hartle and Darcy White (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) -- 2. Protest and Political Art -- Perspectives from the late 20th Century The fugitive visuality of activism in the late 20th century / Chris Goldie (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Art into Society ; Society into Art: a case study, Lucy Bayley (Tate Galleries, UK) and Juliette Desorgues (Independent Scholar, France and UK) -- 3. Art and Agency Shooting Back, Speaking Forward: Decolonising strategies in the work of Sasha Huber / Sasha Huber (Aalto University, Finland) and Temi Odumosu (Malmo University, Sweden) Jason deCaires Taylor's Submerged Sculptures and the Iconography of Slow Violence, Karen Stock Professor of Art (Winthrop University, USA) ; Rajkamal Kahlon's potential history / Margaret Tali (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) ; Digging up the Left-Wing Corpse? Visual Activism and Melancholia in Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave / Stephanie Hartle (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) -- 4. Women at the Margins Acts of Power & Hope. Visual Activism by Women Artists in the People's Republic of China / Monica Merlin (Birmingham City University, UK) ; Farida Batool: A Pakistani Visual Activist / Amina Ejaz (Beaconhouse National University, Pakistan) --

5. Challenges to Respectability Performing respectability: performance, parody and corporate power / Jill Gibbon (Leeds Beckett University, UK) ; By a thread: the space left to activism when fashion deals with the refugee 'crisis' / Elsa Gomis (University of East Anglia, UK) ; Challenging the landscape industry: confronting the myth of a pristine nature in an extinction and climate emergency / Darcy White (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) -- 6. Contested Sovereignty America is Black, Indigenous, and Muslim: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's Public Challenge to White Nationalism / Stefanie Snider (Ferris State University, USA) ; The Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Palestine: Art, Activism and Resistance against Settler Colonialism / Suzannah Henty (University of Melbourne, Australia) ; The Right Of Residency: Exploring Transnationalism and Artistic Citizenship in south Tel Aviv / Mor Cohen (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) -- 7. Networked Spaces Video Activism in a Time of Media Blackout / Sirin Fulya Erensoy (Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey) ; Montage, digital empathy and spectatorship: the role played by YouTube channel 'AnarChnowa' as a tool of visual activism in Tunisia post-14th January 2011 / Marianna Liosi Independent (University of Ferrara, Italy) ; Sociality, Appearance, and Surveillance in Digital Political Activism / Stefka Hristova (Michigan Technological University) ; Menstrual Activism in Contemporary India: A Study of Everyday Social Media Visuals / Sugandha Sehgal (University of Delhi, India) -- 8. Unruliness The Carnivalesque Art Activism of the Recent Urban Social Movements / Tijen Tunali (University of Tours, France) ; Making Sense and Claiming a Presence: the Social Semiotics of Visual Activism / Eve Kalyva (Independent scholar) ; Unruliness Online: Activist Visuality in Glitch Art and Disability Aesthetics on Instagram / Vendula Grundell (Stockholm University, Sweden) ; Visible Speechlessness Image Acts of Lip Sewing / Amelie Ochs (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) and Ana Lena Werner (Ludwigs-Maximilians University, Germany) -- Index.

"The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protestors 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 22 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 'gluing-on' and 'lip-sewing', and are drawn from a wide range of international contexts -- from Europe and the US to Israel, Palestine, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

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