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Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Jones travels the border regions of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Describes and documents politically inspired art — global art practices that draw attention to grievances and demand the transformation of existing conditions through actions, demonstrations, and performances in public space. Includes essays by leading thinkers, images of art objects, illustrations, documents, and other material as well as case studies by artists and activists.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Nothing to Lose but Our Fear: Activism and Resistance in Dangerous Times
Delivers a counter blow to the rampant culture of fear fuelled by the likes of CNN, Fox and the Daily Mail. Exploring contemporary and historical manifestations of this controlling force, the conversations in this collection go beyond just scrutinizing what constitutes rational versus irrational fear, or identifying ways in which human fears are manipulated by political players. They reveal how fear antagonizes and changes our subjectivity and, crucially, how the political use of fear has been resisted in different times and places, by different people across the globe.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Performative monuments: The rematerialisation of public art
How did performance artists of the ’60s and ’70s, famous for their opposition both to lasting art and the political establishment, become the foremost monument builders of the ’80s, ’90s and today? This book argues that the centrality of performance to monuments and indeed public art in general rests not on its ephemerality or anti-authoritarian rhetoric, but on its power to build interpersonal bonds both personal and social.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, this publication evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Latifa Echakhch
The artist investigates cultural transfer and displaced identity through installation, sculpture, video and performance, culturally stereotyping artefacts such as flagpoles, Moroccan tea glasses and India ink in her art. Exhibition catalogue.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Refugee Performance: Practical Encounters
Exploring theater works created for, by, and with refugees, this hybrid collection of essays combines newly commissioned scholarly work with examples of writing by refugees themselves.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
We Roma - a Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Inquires into the contemporary moment through the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering knowledge from the Roma way of life.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
‘Illegal’ Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
Explores the issue of borders and border crossing in the era of globalization and transnationalism, analyzing how the nation-state system regulates movements of people.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
