Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future /
Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.
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STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Undisciplining Socially Engaged Art
- Practicing Decolonialization
- Homegrown Theory
- Chapter Outline
- Part 1: Undisciplining Socially Engaged Art
- 1. Art Biennials and Postcolonialism's Politics of Discourse
- Postcolonialism Dematerialized (I): Biennialism and the Contemporary
- Postcolonialism Dematerialized (II): Theoretical Limitations
- Looking for Alternatives (I): Subversive Excavations
- Looking for Alternatives (II): Critical Regionalism
- Looking for Alternatives (III): Curated and Noncurated Collaboration
- Conclusion
- 2. The Lexicon of Social Practice and Socially Engaged Art's Futures
- The Lexicon of Social Practice
- Dealing with Socially Engaged Art's Master Narratives
- Birth of a Discipline
- Looking Anew: Racializing the "US" Genealogy of Socially Engaged Art
- Conclusion
- Part 2: Radical Affinities and the Horizon of Decolonization
- 3. On Experience, Land Use, and the Threats of the Bourgeoisie: Learning from Amílcar Cabral
- 4. Art, Engagement, and Popular Imagination: Around the "Missed Encounter" between Theodor Adorno and C. L. R. James
- Jamesian Aesthetics
- Paying Attention: James as Engaged Critic of Culture
- Creative Forms, Transnational Linkages, and the Militant Avant-Garde
- Conclusion
- Part 3: Legacies
- 5. The Boda Moment: Repositioning Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary Uganda
- II
- III
- IV
- Interlude I: Locating Socially Engaged Art in Africa
- V
- Interlude II: The Makerere Moment
- VI
- VII
- 6. Art and Politics in Times of Reform: The Collective and the Contemporary in Indonesia
- Taring Padi
- Periodizing Indonesian Collectivism
- Excursus: Collective Sampling/Sampling Collectivism
- ruangrupa
- Expanding the Field
- Conclusion.
- 7. Agency and (Street) Art Politics in Beirut: On Temporary Art Platform's Guide for Urban Intervention
- Part 4: Enclosures, Apertures, and the Performative
- 8. Utility, Multispecies Agency, and Speculative Study: On Ensayos
- Introduction
- Ensayos
- Historicizing Utility in the Americas
- Collaborative Art and/as Multispecies Entanglements
- Ensayos as Study Ecosystems
- Conclusions: Redefining Utility after the Privatization of Everything
- 9. Activism and Performance in the Age of Intellectual and Artistic Witch Hunting
- Some Facts ... and Fictions
- Fantasmagorias do Império (Imperial Ghosting) and the Making of Exclusionary Public Spaces
- Acting, the Enclosed, and the Unforeseeable
- Beyond Control, Hopefully
- Conclusion: Exposing Ourselves to Others
- Open Coda: Black Lives Matter and/for the Genealogies of Subversive Artistic Creativity
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.