An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art

An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art
Author: Sara Reisman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783777437569

The two-volume publication reflects on the Rubin Foundation's art and social justice initiatives over the last six years, including thematic essays, roundtable discussions, and newly commissioned artworks. An Incomplete Archive of Artistic Activism is a publication in two volumes, documenting the Rubin Foundation's art and social justice mission, serving as a critical and educational resource for those interested in activist art practices and philanthropy. One volume highlights the emergence of a cultural shift, addressing art's role in the formation of both community and justice, featuring essays by Andre Lepecki and Lucy Lippard, thematic roundtables with cultural producers, and newly commissioned text-based artwork by Edgar Heap of Birds, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Dread Scott, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The second volume documents exhibitions at The 8th Floor, the Foundation's exhibition and event space, such as In the Power of Your Care, Enacting Stillness, The Intersectional Self, and the exhibition series Revolutionary Cycles, with newly commissioned propositional texts by Mel Chin and Claudia Rankine. This compendium is conceived to be a critical resource for those interested in socially engaged art and includes contributions from leading artists, scholars, critics, and activists.

An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art: Art

An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art: Art
Author: Mel Chin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783777437569

The two volume publication "An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art" reflects on the Rubin Foundation's art and social justice initiative over the last six years, including thematic essays, round-table discussions, newly commissioned artworks and documentation of timely visual art exhibitions organized by the Foundation. Consisting of two volumes, the publication highlights the emergence of a cultural shift, addressing art's role in the formation of both community and justice. Volume one features essays, thematic round tables with cultural producers, and newly commissioned text-based artworks. The second volume documents exhibitions at The 8th Floor, the Foundation's exhibition and event space and selections from the Rubins' Private Collection. This compendium is conceived to be a critical resource for those interested in socially engaged art and includes contributions from leading artists, scholars, critics and activists.

Not Here, Not Now, Not That!

Not Here, Not Now, Not That!
Author: Steven J. Tepper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226792889

In the late 1990s Angels in America,Tony Kushner’s epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art but not others? Not Here, Not Now, Not That! examines a wide range of controversies over films, books, paintings, sculptures, clothing, music, and television in dozens of cities across the country to find out what turns personal offense into public protest. What Steven J. Tepper discovers is that these protests are always deeply rooted in local concerns. Furthermore, they are essential to the process of working out our differences in a civil society. To explore the local nature of public protests in detail, Tepper analyzes cases in seventy-one cities, including an in-depth look at Atlanta in the late 1990s, finding that debates there over memorials, public artworks, books, and parades served as a way for Atlantans to develop a vision of the future at a time of rapid growth and change. Eschewing simplistic narratives that reduce public protests to political maneuvering, Not Here, Not Now, Not That! at last provides the social context necessary to fully understand this fascinating phenomenon.

An Incomplete Organum for Documenting Works of Art

An Incomplete Organum for Documenting Works of Art
Author: Philipp Schulte
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3753435279

An Incomplete Organum for Documenting Works of Art consists of twenty-six impulses in the form of hypotheses, questions, considerations and falsities. The Organum's purpose is to provoke exchanges about common and uncommon practices for documenting artistic works, and is for artists, scholars, academics and anyone interested.

Fly Archive Box Set

Fly Archive Box Set
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015
Genre: Artists' books
ISBN:

"A micro-collection of the crustiest caliber, the limited edition Fly Archive Box Sets captures the essence Lower East Side visual artist who made her bones during a critical moment in NYC history ... she paved her own path to underground notoriety through an assortment of avenues: seminal exhibitions (ABC No Rio, Bullet Space, Gargoyle Laboratories) punk rock music (God Is My Co-Pilot) regarded political comics (World War III & RAW), and performance art (Unspoken Word). The Fly Archive Box Set samples the varieties of her styles and methods through her career beginning in the early 1990's to the early 2010's with focus on printed matter and political ephemera. During the 1990's Fly intertwined her experiences as a Lower East Side squatter into her comics, zines, and illustration. Fuck the Shut Up!!, In Doctrine Nation, The Dystopia of Sobriety, and partially K-9 In Girl Gang reflect Fly's visual style combining free form narrative with meticulously inked works. By the decade's end, Fly artwork shifted toward exploring human level interactions and community relationships of her Lower East Side neighborhood. The greatest example of this is her zine 'THE PEOPS' (short for my peoples), the DIY project she is best known for. Using oral history and portraiture, Fly has netted the largest group of off the wall artists, anarchists, beat poets, squat babies, and Loisada kids into a respectable human level experience"--Publisher's description.

¡Printing the Revolution!

¡Printing the Revolution!
Author: Claudia E. Zapata
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2020-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691210802

Printing and collecting the revolution : the rise and impact of Chicano graphics, 1965 to now / E. Carmen Ramos -- Aesthetics of the message : Chicana/o posters, 1965-1987 / Terezita Romo -- War at home : conceptual iconoclasm in American printmaking / Tatiana Reinoza -- Chicanx graphics in the digital age / Claudia E. Zapata.

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration
Author: Cathrine Bublatzky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2022-11-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000798658

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration acknowledges that migration is a fundamental part of social practice and collective memory. However, archives that have undergone migration or were established by individuals or communities with migration experience gain little public and institutional attention. This volume with its transversal perspective across the fields of art, anthropology and social activism, offers new perspectives on the enormous potential of migratory archives as resourceful spaces for encounter and remembrance, and as a contribution to the plural collective memories and identities of post-migratory societies. Emphasizing the archival agency by migrants, the chapters raise new questions with regard to the multi-directional, collaborative forms of knowledge production within and beyond an archive, its boundaries, and its materiality. Focusing on the complexities of power relations, spatial and temporal dynamics, media practices, and meaning production involved in the making, maintenance, viewing, appropriation, destruction and loss of such archives, the chapters contribute to a critical methodological and theoretical discussion about (un)sighted archives as spaces of encounter and resistance in a liminal zone of visibility and invisibility. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology.

The Art of Cruelty

The Art of Cruelty
Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393343146

"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

Archive Everything

Archive Everything
Author: Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0262549247

How the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through which we map the everyday. In Archive Everything, Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently, a broad but interrelated number of practices not traditionally considered as archival. Archives now consist of not only documents and sites but also artworks, installations, museums, social media platforms, and mediated and mixed reality environments. Giannachi tracks the evolution of these diverse archival practices across the centuries. Archives today offer a multiplicity of viewing platforms to replay the past, capture the present, and map our presence. Giannachi uses archaeological practices to explore all the layers of the archive, analyzing Lynn Hershman Leeson's !Women Art Revolution project, a digital archive of feminist artists. She considers the archive as a memory laboratory, with case studies that include visitors' encounters with archival materials in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. She discusses the importance of participatory archiving, examining the “multimedia roadshow” Digital Diaspora Family Reunion as an example. She explores the use of the archive in works that express the relationship between ourselves and our environment, citing Andy Warhol and Ant Farm, among others. And she looks at the transmission of the archive through the body in performance, bioart, and database artworks, closing with a detailed analysis of Lynn Hershman Leeson's Infinity Engine.