FIELD, 12/13: Art, Anti-Globalism, and the Neo-Authoritarian Turn (2019)
Filed under journal | Tags: · activism, alt-right, art, art criticism, authoritarianism, far right, politics, populism, protest, social movements
This special issue of FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism focusses on “new forms of cultural and artistic activism that have emerged in response to the global rise of right wing populist and authoritarian forms of government. It features over thirty essays by leading artists, activists, historians, critics and curators who share a commitment to freedom of expression, economic equality, environmental justice, individual identity and mobility, and the expansion of democratic processes.”
Edited by Greg Sholette
Publisher Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, Winter/Spring 2019
Open access
kollektiv orangotango+ (ed.): This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies (2018)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, cartography, geography, indigenous peoples, mapping, participation, politics, social cartography
“This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself.”
Publisher transcript, Bielefeld, Sep 2018
Social and Cultural Geography series, 26
Creative Commons BY License
ISBN 9783837645194, 3837645193
346 pages
Review: Alison D. Ollivierre (Cartographic Perspectives, 2020).
Project website
Publisher
OAPEN
WorldCat
PDF, PDF (92 MB, updated on 2023-7-31)
Comment (0)ArtLeaks Gazette (2013–)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · activism, art, cultural resistance, labour, politics, power, protest, strike, work
“ArtLeaks is a collective platform initiated by an international group of artists, curators, art historians and intellectuals in response to the abuse of their professional integrity and the open infraction of their labor rights. In the art world, such abuses usually disappear, but some events bring them into sharp focus and therefore deserve public scrutiny. Only by drawing attention to concrete abuses can we underscore the precarious condition of cultural workers and the necessity for sustained protest against the appropriation of politically engaged art, culture and theory by institutions embedded in a tight mesh of capital and power.”
Edited by Corina L. Apostol (1-6), Vladan Jeremić (1-6), David Riff (1), Dmitry Vilensky (1), Vlad Morariu (1), Raluca Voinea (2), Brett Alton Bloom (3), and Rena Rädle (4-6), Jasmina Tumbas (5)
Publisher ArtLeaks
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License
Issue 1, May 2013: PDF, PDFs
Issue 2, Jun 2014: PDF, PDFs
Issue 3, Aug 2015: PDF, PDFs
Issue 4, Sep 2017: PDF, PDFs
Issue 5: Patriarchy Over & Out. Discourse Made Manifest, Apr 2019: PDF, Issuu (added on 2024-2-19)
Issue 6: There is No ‘Back to Normal’ – Art Workers in Times of (Post)Pandemic Crisis, Feb 2022: PDF (added on 2024-2-19)