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States of Precarity
Exploring feminist artistic reponses to the specificity of women’s suffering in war, through the work of Sandra Johnston, nichola feldman-kiss and Rehab Nazzal.
Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe
This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book’s chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin.
Protesting Exhibit B in London: Reconfiguring Antagonism as the Claiming of Theatrical Space
The article analyses discourses surrounding the cancellation of Brett Bailey’s performance by the Barbican in September 2014.
Decolonial Actions
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Incudes a communal text, details on the event, reflections by Leo Kay, Laura Burns, Christine Brault, Isil Sol Vil and Marina Barsy Jane, and photos.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
Decolonial Actions video documentation
Documentation from the LADA event on (post)modern colonialism, held on on 13 Feb 2016.
Part of the Study Room Ambassador scheme.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt provides a historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism. The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and the rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it.
Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism
A diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, considers the interaction of politics and the visual in such topics as the political consequences of a photograph taken by an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian house in Ramallah; AIDS activism; images of social suffering in Iran; the “forensic architecture” of claims to truth; and the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Transcending disciplines, they trace a broader image complex whereby politics is brought to visibility through the mediation of specific cultural forms that mix the legal and the visual, the hermeneutic and the technical, the political and the aesthetic.
FANON Now: Jamila Johnson Small - documentation
Contribution by Jamila Johnson Small for FANON Now – on the legacy of Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire. The event brought together David A Bailey, artists from the original Mirage project, and artists from subsequent generations, to reflect on the contemporary moment in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities.
FANON Now: Alexandrina Hemsley - documentation
Contribution by Alexandrina Hemsley for FANON Now – on the legacy of Mirage: Enigmas Of Race, Difference & Desire. The event brought together David A Bailey, artists from the original Mirage project, and artists from subsequent generations, to reflect on the contemporary moment in relation to structural violence, de-colonising culture and relations, and the power of aesthetics and its explorations of complex formations of racial identities.
mestizx
Part of “Negación y Utopía” (“Nagation and Utopia”), the first National Festival of Performance of Mexico, 6-29 November 2013, a platform showcasing work on Mexican identity and multicultural hybrids. This documentation includes recordings of the performance, exerpts, and interviews with the artist. Spanish language.
Temporal Drag
The five works by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz featured in this publication intervene in time-related discourses and practices. Texts by Mathias Danbolt, Diedrich Diederichsen, Elizabeth Freeman, Denis Pernet, Marc Siegel, conversation with the artists by Andrea Thal.
Diaspora, Memory, Place: David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z
An indepth analysis of the work of three significant African diaspora artists – David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Pamela Z – with essays examining site specific installations and peformances concieved by these artists for Dak'Art 2004, the Biennale of Contemporary African Art
