Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future

Carlos Garrido Castellano (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2022
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8572-0 (ISBN)

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Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

Analyzing the confluence between coloniality and activist art, Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future argues that there is much to gain from approaching contemporary politically committed art practices from the angle of anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial struggles. These struggles inspired a vast yet underexplored set of ideas about art and cultural practices and did so decades before the acceptance of radical artistic practices by mainstream art institutions. Carlos Garrido Castellano argues that art activism has been confined to a limited spatial and temporal framework-that of Western culture and the modernist avant-garde. Assumptions about the individual creator and the belated arrival of derivative avant-garde aesthetics to the periphery have generated a narrow view of "political art" at the expense of our capacity to perceive a truly global alternative praxis. Garrido Castellano then illuminates such a praxis, focusing attention on socially engaged art from the Global South, challenging the supposed universality of Western artistic norms, and demonstrating the role of art in promoting and configuring a collective critical consciousness in postcolonial public spheres.

This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched-an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7166.

Carlos Garrido Castellano is Lecturer in the Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Department at University College Cork in Ireland. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Undisciplining Socially Engaged Art

1. Art Biennials and Postcolonialism's Politics of Discourse

2. The Lexicon of Social Practice and Socially Engaged Art's Futures

Part II: 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

Part III: Legacies

5. The Boda Moment: Repositioning Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary Uganda

6. Art and Politics in Times of Reform: The Collective and the Contemporary in Indonesia

7. Agency and (Street) Art Politics in Beirut: On Temporary Art Platform's Guide for Urban Intervention

Part IV: Enclosures, Apertures, and the Performative

8. Utility, Multispecies Agency, and Speculative Study: On Ensayos

9. Activism and Performance in the Age of Intellectual and Artistic Witch Hunting

Open Coda: Black Lives Matter and/for the Genealogies of Subversive Artistic Creativity

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action
Zusatzinfo	24 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4384-8572-7 / 1438485727
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-8572-0 / 9781438485720
Zustand	Neuware