Format:
xix, 252 Seiten
ISBN:
9781474252737
,
9781474252744
Series Statement:
Radical aesthetics - radical art
Content:
Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Veronica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, 'counter-memorial aesthetics'. Counter-Memorial Aesthetics, Tello argues, is characterized by its conjunction of heterogeneous signifiers and voices of many times and places, generating an experimental, non-teleological approach to the construction of contemporary history, which also takes into account the complex, disorienting spatial affects of globalization. Spanning performance art, experimental 'history painting', aftermath photography and video installation, counter-memorial aesthetics bring to the fore, Tello argues, how contemporary refugee flows and related traumatic events critically challenge and conflict with many existing, tired if not also stubborn notions of national identity, borders, history and memory
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-1-4742-5275-1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-4742-5276-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Kuba
;
Großbritannien
;
Australien
;
Kunst
;
Flüchtling
;
Migration
;
Gesellschaft
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 1950-2015
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