Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis : Aesthetic Resilience (Paperback)

Introduction: Taking Aesthetics from Resistance to Resilience Bram Ieven, Eliza Steinbock, and Marijke de Valck Part 1. Resilience: Searching for New Weapons While Fleeing 1.Resilience Thinking, Storytelling and Aesthetic Resilience Marijke de Valck 2. But does it Work in Theory? Androcentric Blind Spots and Omissions Hilary Robinson 3.Learning from Documenta: Aesthetic Resilience and the Politics of Institutionalized Art Bram Ieven 4.Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction T.J. Demos 5.Movement of Movements: Resilient Strategies in the ‘Global South’ Kitty Zijlmans Part 2. Global Conjunctions of Aesthetic Resilience 6.Of Tricksters and Zombies: Re-imagining Outsideness in Contemporary Russian Activist Art Ksenia Robbe 7.An Alloy Made from Art and Activism, in North Macedonia Jon Blackwood 8.Drones and Streets: On the Image Composition of the Tahrir and Gezi Occupations Begum Ozden Fırat 9.The Resilient City: When Social Activism meets Media Arts in Hong Kong Isaac Leung 10.Art-activism in Decolonising a South African University Space Zethu Matebeni Part 3. Artistic Practices of Embodied Resilience 11.Feminist and Anti-Racist Graffiti: Disrupting Public Space in the 1970s in Britain Na`ama Klorman-Eraqi 12.The Black Radical: Fungibility, Activism, and Portraiture in These Times Syrus Marcus Ware 13.Practicing Aesthetic Resilience through Collaboration Keri Watson 14.Embodied Narratives: Art, Corporeality, and Creative Processes Ana Cristina Bohrer Gilbert