Best Pierre D Alancaisez Podcasts (2024)

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Robert R. Janes: Museums and Societal Collapse 53:52

6M ago53:52

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Who do you turn to at the brink of the apocalypse? What might help us to mitigate the financial, commercial, political, social, and cultural collapse for which we may be heading? Museums and Societal Collapse proposes an unlikely hero in this narrative. Robert Janes’ text explores the implications of societal collapse from a multidisciplinary persp…

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Vid Simoniti: Artists Remake the World 55:55

8M ago55:55

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Artists Remake the World puts forward an account of contemporary art’s political ambitions and potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven art, socially engaged art, and ecological art, the book explores how artists have attempted to offer bold solutions to the world’s problems. Simoniti systematises the perspectives of contemporary ar…

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Benjamin Studebaker: The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy 1:04:43

12M ago1:04:43

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American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint …

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Adrian Rifkin: Future Imperfect 1:17:25

1y ago1:17:25

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Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in January of that year, and it really concerns me rather than the world of political events, though these are always on my mind, as they were always on my mind. Future Imperfect, Adrian Rifkin’s short Bildungsroman sets beside each other the fault line…

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Samuel J. Redman: The Museum 59:00

1y ago59:00

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On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum’s castle. Rare objects and valuable paintings were destroyed. The flames at the Smithsonian were not the first—and certainly would not be the last— disaster to upend a muse…

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Sharon Hecker, Raffaele Bedarida: Curating Fascism 58:19

1y ago58:19

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On the centenary of the fascist party's ascent to power in Italy, Curating Fascism examines the ways in which exhibitions organised after the fall of Mussolini's regime to the present day have shaped collective memory, historical narratives, and political discourse around the Italian ventennio. It charts how shows on fascism have evolved since the …

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Craig Leonard: Uncommon Sense 51:51

1y ago51:51

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In Uncommon Sense, Craig Leonard argues for the contemporary relevance of the aesthetic theory of Herbert Marcuse, an original member of the Frankfurt School and icon of the New Left, while also acknowledging his philosophical limits. This account reinvigorates Marcuse for contemporary readers, putting his aesthetic theory into dialogue with anti-c…

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Rhea Myers: Proof of Work 1:15:14

1+ y ago1:15:14

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NFT, BTC, DAO, ETH, WAGMI, HODL. It would have been hard to avoid these acronyms only a year ago. The hype around cryptocurrencies and blockchain art was almost as annoying as the glee with which crypto sceptics welcomed the sudden onset of the crypto winter. But for all the popularity of Bored Apes and Ponzi scheme stories, there seems to have bee…

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David Houston Jones: Visual Culture and the Forensic 1:04:54

1+ y ago1:04:54

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Visual Culture and the Forensic bridges practices conventionally understood as forensic, such as crime scene investigation, and the broader field of activity which the forensic now designates, for example, in performance and installation art, or photography. David Houston Jones speaks to Pierre d’Alancaisez about the evidentiary and forensic burden…

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Toby Green, Thomas Fazi: The Covid Consensus 1:12:24

1+ y ago1:12:24

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During the first months of the pandemic, governments worldwide agreed that ‘following the science’ with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But evidence is mounting that ‘the science’ was all politics and time reveals the horrific human and economic cost of these policies. The Covid Consensus provides an internati…

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Leila Jancovich, David Stevenson: Failures in Cultural Participation 1:03:42

1+ y ago1:03:42

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For the past two decades, the arts and cultural establishment in the UK has been trying to engage a broader set of audiences in their work. Countless initiatives to make the arts more accessible to the public and to make them more relevant have been advocated for in policy and funding settlements. But the dial on who participates and how much has n…

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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie: Beautiful, Gruesome, and True 59:15

1+ y ago59:15

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Art has a long history of engaging with conflict and violence. From the antiquities, through Goya, to Guernica, our museums are filled with depictions of battles, pogroms, uprisings, and their suppression. Not all of these stories are told from the perspective of the victors. Many contemporary creatives have continued this tradition. While the posi…

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Aaron Moulton: The Influencing Machine 1:18:47

1+ y ago1:18:47

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In the 1990s, a network of twenty Soros Centres for Contemporary Art sprung up across Eastern Europe: Almaty, Belgrade, Budapest, Kiev, Ljubljana, Prague, Riga, Sarajevo, Tallinn, Warsaw, and Zagreb among them. These centres, funded as their name suggests by Geroge Soros’ Open Society Foundation, had as their mission the cataloguing of dissident pr…

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Geert Lovink: Sad by Design 56:13

1+ y ago56:13

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Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than driven by the same irrational exuberance that moves money? Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping…

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Peter Rehberg: Hipster Porn 1:04:57

1+ y ago1:04:57

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It’s easy to forget that the cultural archetypes that pass for queerness today have historical roots. Some of these roots are mere years away from today’s reality but they are nonetheless distinct and come with their own artefacts and subcultures. Peter Rehberg’s book Hipster Porn looks at one such source artefact and its fandom, using as its matte…

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Gregory Sholette: The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art 53:54

2y ago53:54

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Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself.…

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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: Against Decolonisation 1:01:27

2y ago1:01:27

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Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’. In Against Decolonisation, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language an…

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Nicholas Gamso: Art After Liberalism 1:20:33

2y ago1:20:33

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Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that could be described as a crisis of liberalism. The apparent failures of liberal thinking are a starting point for an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others. What happens when the …

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Renzo Martens: Critique in Practice 1:19:37

2y ago1:19:37

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In 2008, the artist Renzo Martens released his controversial film Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film portrayed the artist as a colonial explorer travelling around the Congo’s plantations with the naiveté of the cartoon character Tintin. Martens encounters poverty, hunger, and abuse, all the while narrating…

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Karen Archey: After Institutions 1:06:12

2y ago1:06:12

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Faced with waning state support, declining revenue, and forced entrepreneurialism, museums have become a threatened public space. Simultaneously, they have assumed the role of institutional arbiter in issues of social justice and accountability. The canon of Institutional Critique has responded to the social embeddedness of art institutions by look…

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Heide Hinrichs et al - shelf documents 52:56

2y ago52:56

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How can a library change the world? How can an art library change the art school or the gallery? Or even an art practice? In shelf documents, artists, writers, curators, teachers, and librarians reflect on how they can use the beloved library as a source of inspiration or a field of action. In thinking about diversity in collections, the publicatio…

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Mattin: Social Dissonance 59:55

2y ago59:55

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We are not what we think we are. Our self-image as natural individuated subjects is determined behind our backs: historically by political forces, cognitively by the language we use, and neurologically by sub-personal mechanisms, as revealed by scientific and philosophical analyses. Under contemporary capitalism, as the gap between this self-image …

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Kuba Szreder: The ABC of the Projectariat 1:11:02

2y ago1:11:02

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Labour has taken an about-turn. From Adam Smith’s proposal for specialisation which saw the factory line reorganised so that each worker needed to understand only a small aspect of the production process, many industries now rely on access to specialised skills and resources that are commanded at-hoc in discrete, time- and output-bound chunks. This…

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Joshua Citarella: Politigram & the Post-left 58:20

2y ago58:20

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The internet’s potential to perform political miracles has been a source of both hope and disappointment for many grassroots movements. We remember that the Sanders campaign tried to master the meme to mobilise a young, eager audience. Equally, we ascribe Trump’s electoral victory in 2016 to seemingly leaderless internet misinformation. Many of suc…

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David Swift: The Identity Myth 1:04:22

2y ago1:04:22

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In conversations about polarised political issues, phrases like ‘it’s not about race, it’s about class’ have become the perfect way to induce a stalemate. It seems as though the traditional, materialist critique of inequal ity has been supplanted by fast-evolving set of reflections of group identity. Mainstream politics makes fast and loose assumpt…

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Mike Watson: The Memeing of Mark Fisher 1:15:12

2y ago1:15:12

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Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher's insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that capitalism breeds depression. Mike Watson picks up Fisher's prognosis when the locked-down pandemic world is mired in a depression that is economic and …

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Georgina Adam, Nizan Shaked: The problem with museums 1:09:30

2y ago1:09:30

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In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Place or the oxycontin scandal have forced changes to the governance of some of the world’s best-known institutions. At the same time, the work of journalists and museum scholars has revealed that the relationsh…

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David Maroto: The Artist’s Novel 1:08:59

2+ y ago1:08:59

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For better or worse, artists write. But why would a visual artist write a novel? How should such a novel be experienced? How does the artist’s novel compare or compete with literary fiction as we know it? David Maroto, the author of The Artist’s Novel considers the proliferation of artists writing novels as a sign of the emergence of a new medium. …

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Abigail Susik: Surrealist Sabotage 1:14:46

2+ y ago1:14:46

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According to the definition offered by Tate on the occasion of the exhibition Surrealism Without Borders, Surrealism “aims to revolutionise human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams.” Surrealism, therefore, produces images and artefacts that are rooted outside the real and …

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Julian Stallabrass: Killing for Show 1:05:34

2+ y ago1:05:34

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Killing for Show Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq Julian Stallabrass Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2020 ISBN 9781538141809 In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Air Force released blurry video of a missile blowing up a pick-up truck that may have had a weapon attached to its flatbed. This was a lethal form of gesture politics: to…

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Keller Easterling: Medium Design 47:12

2+ y ago47:12

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Medium Design Knowing How to Work on the World Keller Easterling Published by Verso, 2020 ISBN 9781788739320 How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world’s unresponsive or intractable dilemmas, from climate change, to inequality, to concentrations of authoritarian power? Keller Easterling argues that the search for singular solutions is …

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Nina Power: What Do Men Want? 57:52

2+ y ago57:52

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What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents Nina Power Published by Penguin/Allen Lane, 2022 ISBN 9780241356500 Something is definitely up with men. From millions online who engage with the manosphere to the #metoo backlash, from Men’s Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates, it’s easy to see that, while men still rule the wor…

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Grant Tavinor: The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality 48:43

2+ y ago48:43

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The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality Grant Tavinor Published by Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9780367619251 When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost always done so through the lens of metaphysics, asking questions about the reality of virtual items and worlds, about the value of such things, and indeed, about how they may reshape our…

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Michael Newall: A Philosophy of the Art School 1:01:22

2+ y ago1:01:22

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A Philosophy of the Art School Michael Newall Published by Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9781032094342 If one were to devise a motto for the art school of today, the choice between ‘you too are an artist’ and ‘abandon all hope you who enter here’ would be difficult. Despite significant changes in mainstream art education in recent decades, many anglophone a…

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Anna Watkins Fisher: The Play in the System 59:42

2+ y ago59:42

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The Play in the System The Art of Parasitical Resistance Anna Watkins Fisher Published by Duke University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781478009702 What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System, Anna Watkins …

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Kim Charnley: Sociopolitical Aesthetics 1:10:42

2+ y ago1:10:42

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Sociopolitical Aesthetics Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism Kim Charnley Published by Bloomsbury, 2021 ISBN 9781350008748 Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. Kim Cha…

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Adam Lehrer: Communions 54:10

2+ y ago54:10

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Communions Adam Lehrer Published by Hyperidean Press, 2021 ISBN 9781916376755 Artists from Kurt Cobain to Amy Winehouse command fascination not only for their work but also for their drug addictions and the manner of their death. Communions is an attempt to understand the role that opiates play in the artistic lives of those who are gripped by addi…

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Fuller, Weizman: Investigative Aesthetics 1:14:33

2+ y ago1:14:33

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Investigative Aesthetics Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth Matthew Fuller Eyal Weizman Published by Verso, 2021 ISBN 9781788739085 Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state’s monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of truth. They probe corruption, human rights violations, env…

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Alana Jelinek: Between Discipline and a Hard Place 54:09

3y ago54:09

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Between Discipline and a Hard Place The Value of Contemporary Art Alana Jelinek Published by Bloomsbury, 2020 ISBN 9781350100473 Some fields have an easier time describing themselves than others. “History is the study of past events.” “Biology is the study of living organisms.” But art? Is art a discipline? Is it a practice? Who gets to answer this…

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Hannah Wohl: Bound by Creativity 1:17:47

3y ago1:17:47

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Bound by Creativity How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged Hannah Wohl Published by University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226784694 What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is profoundly influenced by social interactions even when artists…

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Patricia Bickers: The Ends of Art Criticism 1:24:10

3y ago1:24:10

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The Ends of Art Criticism Patricia Bickers Published by Lund Humphries, 2021 ISBN 9781848224261 Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism dispel these myths by arguing that the lack of a single dominant voice in criticism is not, as some believe, a weakness, bu…

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Frans-Willem Korsten: Art as an Interface of Law and Justice 1:08:32

3y ago1:08:32

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Art as an Interface of Law and Justice Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption Frans-Willem Korsten Published by Hart, 2021 ISBN 9781509944347 Art as an Interface of Law and Justice looks at the way in which the ‘call for justice’ is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the l…

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Gayle Rogers: Speculation 1:02:58

3y ago1:02:58

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Speculation A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI Gayle Rogers Published by Columbia University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780231200219 In a world that purports to know more about the future than any before it, why do we still need speculation? Insubstantial speculations – from utopian thinking to high-risk stock gambles – often provoke backlash, even whe…

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Caroline Seymour-Jorn: Creating Spaces of Hope 56:24

3y ago56:24

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Creating Spaces of Hope Young Artists And The New Imagination In Egypt Caroline Seymour-Jorn Published by The American University in Cairo Press, 2021 ISBN 9789774169748 It is now just over a decade since protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square started Egypt’s chapter in the events of the Arab Spring. Much has been made in western criticism of art and cu…

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Gemma Commane: Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies 54:32

3y ago54:32

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Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity Gemma Commane Published by Bloomsbury, 2021 ISBN 9781788311267 What makes a woman ‘bad’ is commonly linked to certain ‘qualities’ or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies explores the social, sexual and political significance of wo…

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François Matarasso: A Restless Art 1:02:31

3y ago1:02:31

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A Restless Art How participation won, and why it matters François Matarasso Published by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (open access), 2019 ISBN 9781903080207 It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation or engagement department. It is nothing s…

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Jennifer Ponce de León: Another Aesthetics Is Possible 55:09

3y ago55:09

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Another Aesthetics Is Possible Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War Jennifer Ponce de León Published by Duke University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781478011255 In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labour of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and a…

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Anthony Downey: Research/Practice 47:25

3y ago47:25

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Research/Practice edited by Anthony Downey I’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it’s in between I freeze / Michael Rakowitz The General’s Stork / Heba Y. AminRachel Armstrong Published by Sternberg Press, 2019, 2020 ISBN 9783956794766, 9783956794780 In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of…

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Danielle Child: Working Aesthetics 59:17

3y ago59:17

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Working Aesthetics Danielle Child Published by Bloomsbury, 2019 ISBN 9781350022393 Working Aesthetics is the story of art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer…

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Armstrong, Hughes: The Art of Experiment 1:13:47

3+ y ago1:13:47

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The Art of Experiment Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design Rolf Hughes Rachel Armstrong Published by Routledge, 2021 ISBN 9781138479579 The Art of Experiment is a handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times. In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this b…

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