Title & Author:

Art and activism in the age of globalization / Lieven De Cauter, Ruben De Roo & Karel Vanhaesebrouck, eds.

Publication:

Description:

334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Reflect ; 08

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Notes on subversion/theses on activism / Lieven De Cauter -- As dead as dodo? Commitment beyond postmodernism / Karel Vanhaesebrouck -- A theatre of resistance / Pippo Delbono -- The avant-garde and global systems / Richard Schechner -- We were dying and then we got a prize / Thomas Bellinck -- Aesthetics as a service club : a few thoughts on commitment in the arts / Stefan Hertmans -- Discourse as resistance : digression on Documenta11 / Dieter Lesage -- The return of temples of culture : from museum to mausoleum / Pierre-Olivier Rollin -- Art scene : control machine / Pascal Gielen -- A letter on difference and affirmation / Dieter Roelstraete -- Secret weapons of underground cinema / Duncan Reekie -- 'I have a cock and I'm South-African' : on the performace art of Steven Cohen / Christophe Alix -- The wounded German body of Christoph Schlingensief / Klaas Tindemans -- The 'manifestation for the re-annexation of Belgium to Congo' : reconfiguring (post)colonial space / Karel Arnaut -- Immorality as ethics : Renzo Martens' Enjoy poverty / Ruben De Roo -- The need for freezones : informal actors setting the urban agenda / Eric Corijn and Jacqueline Groth -- Radical territories of affection : the art of being stalker / Francesca Recchia -- Stopud : a provisional analysis of an activist rhizome / André Gattolin and Thierry Lefebvre -- The rise of instant activism, and how it's transforming architecture, urbanism and the way our cities are built / Miguel Robles-Durán -- Censorship, art and activism in Syria / Jan Ackenhausen -- After 9/11 : two veteran performance artists swap stories on flying in times of war / Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Tim Miller -- The rhythm of capital and the theatre of terror : the errorist international, etcétera-- / Jennifer Flores Sternad -- The promises of commonalism / Rudi Laermans -- Online activism as a participatory form of storytelling / Marco Deseriis -- The new activism : a plea for affirmative ethics / Rosi Braidotti -- Recapturing subversion : some twisted rules for the culture game / Brian Holmes -- Artists, one more effort to be really political / BAVO -- The laboratory of insurrectionary uimagination : art, activism and permaculture : an interview with Isa Fremeaux and John Jordan / Lars Kwakkenbos -- Looking for trouble : appeal for a radical activist art / Gie Goris -- Shove it! Some uncritical thoughts on subversion / Christophe Van Eecke -- Burn this book! / The editors.

Summary:

"Art and activism in the age of globalization" takes the measure of contemporary activist art. Is it a relevant practice or a pseudo-activity in the margins of its politics proper? What is the position of art and activism in the post-Fordian society of the spectacle? The book makes space for a critique of engagement as pose, but also for the present era's urgencies. Besides case studies by established figures such as Steven Cohen and Christoph Schlingensief, young pubs like Renzo Martens and Les Chiens de Navarre are also given a platform. There are also investigations into urban activism and the activism of anonymous networks, and there is special consideration for the effect of the 'War on terror' on activist practice.

ISBN:

9789056627799 (pbk.)
9056627791 (pbk.)

Subject:

Politics in art.
Arts Political aspects.
Art and social action.
Social problems in art.
Art and globalization.
Art, Modern Political aspects 21st century.
Politique dans l'art.
Art et action sociale.
Problèmes sociaux dans l'art.
Art et mondialisation.
Art and Design.
Art, Modern Political aspects.
Politik i konsten.
Konst sociala aspekter.

Added entries:

Cauter, Lieven de, 1959- editor.
Roo, Ruben De., editor.
Vanhaesebrouck, Karel. editor.
Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; #08.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277460
Call No.: BIB 212281
Status: Available