Group Works (eBook)

Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence

Ethan Philbrick (Autor)

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2023
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0272-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.The artist and author Ethan Philbrick s Group Works re-imagines the group by undertaking an historiographic archaeology of group aesthetics and politics.Written against both phobic and romantic accounts of collectivity, Group Works contends that the group emerges as a medium for artists when established forms of collective life break down. Philbrick pairs group pieces in dance, literature, film, and music from the 1960s and 1970s downtown Manhattan scene alongside a series of recent group experiments: Simone Forti s dance construction, Huddle (1961), is put into relation with contemporary re-performances of Forti s score and huddling as a feminist political tactic; Samuel Delany s memoir of communal living, Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love (1969/78), speaks to performance artist Morgan Bassichis s 2017 communal musical adaptation of Larry Mitchell s 1977 text, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions; Lizzie Borden s experimental documentary of feminist collectivity, Regrouping (1976), sits alongside visual artist Sharon Hayes s 2014 piece on Manhattan s Pier 54, Women of the World Unite! they said; and Julius Eastman s insurgent piece of chamber music for four pianos, Gay Guerrilla (1979), resonates alongside contemporary projects that take up Eastman s legacy by artists such as Tiona Nekkia McClodden.By analyzing works that articulate the politics of race, gender, and sexuality as questions of group formation, Philbrick approaches the group not as a stable, idealizable entity but as an ambivalent way to negotiate and contest shifting terms of associational life. Group Works presents an engaging exploration of what happens when small groups become a material and medium for artistic and political experimentation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: ART • Collectivism • Commune • Ensemble • groupuscule • Huddle • Julius Eastman • Lizzie Borden • Neoliberalism • Samuel Delany • Simone Forti
• ISBN-10: 1-5315-0272-5 / 1531502725
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5315-0272-0 / 9781531502720