Precarious Spaces

The Arts, Social and Organizational Change

Katarzyna Kosmala, Miguel Imas (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2016
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-593-6 (ISBN)

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Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil’s 'informal' situation, and contributes much to the ongoing debate of the possibility for change through social, environmental and ecological solutions. The individual chapters, compiled by Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas, present a wide spectrum of contemporary social agency models with a particular emphasis on detailed case studies and local histories. Featuring critical reflections on the spaces of urban voids, derelict buildings, self-built communities such as favela and roadside occupations, Precarious Spaces will make readers question their assumptions about precarity, and life in precarious realms.

Katarzyna Kosmala Ph.D. is Reader in Visual Culture and Organization, University of the West of Scotland, UK; Visiting Research Fellow at GEXcel, Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linköping University & Örebro University, Sweden and Visiting Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a curator and freelance art writer. She researches and writes on aspects of construction and representation of gender and identity politics in contemporary (visual) culture, creative work, cultural labour and discourses of creativity, identity and community in the context of a globalising network society, art production and enterprise; arts-run projects and politics of representation. Miguel Imas is a senior lecturer in organisational and social psychology at Kingston University, London, and a research associate of the London Multimedia Lab at the London School of Economics. He is also one of the editors of Precarious Spaces.

Chapter 1: Why precarious spaces?

Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas

Chapter 2: How emergent cultural imaginaries of autonomy and planetarity can reframe contemporary precarity debates

Diana Brydon

Chapter 3: From the precarious to the hybrid: The case of the Maré Complex in Rio de Janeiro

Lilian Fessler Vaz and Claudia Seldin

Chapter 4: Painting free from gentrification: Participatory arts-based interventions in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Katarzyna Kosmala

Chapter 5: Beyond aesthetics: Poetics of Autoconstrucción in Mexico City

Benjamin Parry

Chapter 6: FOLi Lab: A museographic urban experiment at the Biennial of Photography in Lima, Peru

Gonzalo Olmos and Valeria Biffi

Chapter 7: OrgansparkZ: Communities of art-space, imagination and resistance

Miguel Imas and Alia Weston

Chapter 8: Pockets of resistance: A look at the Mbyá-Guarani camps in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Cristina Amélia Pereira de Carvalho and Fábio Freitas Schilling Marquesan

Chapter 9: Fábricas Recuperadas in Brazil: Contextual experiences

Jacob Carlos Lima, Aline Suelen Pires and Fernando Ramalho Martins

Chapter 10: New technologies and media activism in Brazil: Reassembling spaces in the context of innovation

Leonardo Vasconcelos Cavalier Darbilly

Chapter 11: Organizing culture in favela Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro: The dynamics of precarity

Alketa Peci, Daniel S. Lacerda and Vanessa Brulon

Chapter 12: A much mended thing: Notes from the North

Cristina Molina and Dean (Rocky) Rockwell

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	617 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78320-593-8 / 1783205938
ISBN-13	978-1-78320-593-6 / 9781783205936
Zustand	Neuware