Visual Activism in the 21st Century (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World
Redaktion: Hartle, Stephanie; White, Darcy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters 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 16 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 'lip-sewing', and are drawn from a wide range of international contexts - from Europe and the US, to 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350265097
• Artikelnr.: 64255968

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Hartle is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Darcy White is Principal Lecturer in Visual Culture at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHOLOGY
Darcy White and Stephanie Hartle (Sheffield Hallam University
UK) PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE: ACTING/ RE-ENACTING AND ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES 1. Making Sense and Claiming a Presence: the Social Semiotics of Visual Activism
Eve Kalyva (University of Kent
UK) 2. A Total Performance: Invisibility
Respectability and Resistance in Corporate Capitalism
Jill Gibbon (Leeds Beckett University
UK) 3. By a Thread: the Space Left to Activism when Fashion Deals with the Refugee 'crisis'
Elsa Gomis (University of East Anglia
UK) 4. Digging up the Left-Wing Corpse? Visual Activism and Melancholia in Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave
Stephanie Hartle (Sheffield Hallam University
UK) 5. Imperialism
Empathy and Healing in Rajkamal Kahlon's Artistic Activism
Margaret Tali (Estonian Academy of Arts) 6. Shooting Back / Speaking Forward: Decolonial Strategies in the work of Sasha Huber
Temi Odumosu (Malmö University
Sweden) and Sasha Huber (Independent Researcher
Finland) PART TWO: PLACES OF PROTEST: PUBLIC SPACE AND CITIZENSHIP 7. Visible Speechlessness: A Critical Approach to Image Acts of Lip Sewing
Ana Lena Werner (Independent Scholar
Germany) and Amelie Ochs (University of Bremen
Germany) 8. 'Ripples in water'. Minor Episodes of Feminist Visual Activism by Three Women Artists in the PRC (2007-2015)
Monica Merlin (Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar) 9. 'America is Black
Indigenous
and Muslim': Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's Public Challenges to White Nationalism
Stefanie Snider (Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids
Michigan
USA) 10. Farida Batool: A Pakistani Visual Activist
Amina Ejaz (National College of Arts
Pakistan) 11. Jason deCaires Taylor's Submerged Sculptures and the Iconography of Slow Violence
Karen Stock (Winthrop University
USA) 12. Keeping the Peace: the Visual in the 'struggle' of Nonviolent Activism in a Global Existential Crisis
Darcy White (Sheffield Hallam University
UK) PART THREE: CONNECTIVITY ONLINE: DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND THE NETWORKED IMAGE 13. Montage and Vernacular Spectatorship: the Role Played by YouTube Channel AnarChnowa as a Tool of Visual Activism in Post-14 January 2011 Tunisia
Mariana Liosi (The Free Fine Arts Academy in Rimini
Italy) 14. Sociality
Appearance
and Surveillance in Digital Political Activism
Stefka Hristova (Michigan Technological University
USA) 15. Rendering the Invisible Visible: Menstrual Activism in Contemporary India
Sugandha Sehgal (University of Delhi
India) 16. Unruly Images: The Activist Visuality of Glitches and Disabilities on Instagram
Vendela Grundell Gachoud (Stockholm University
Sweden) INDEX