Global Activism: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century
Documenting and describing the emerging “performative democracy,” the first new art form of the twenty‑first century. Today political protest often takes the form of spontaneous, noninstitutional, mass action. Mass protests during the Arab Spring showed that established systems of power‑in that case, the reciprocal support among Arab dictators and Western democracies‑can be interrupted, at least for a short moment in history. These new activist movements often use online media to spread their message. Mass demonstrations from Tahrir Square in Cairo to Taksim Square in Istanbul show the power of networked communication to fuel “performative democracy"-at the center of which stands the global citizen. Art is emerging as a public space in which the individual can claim the promises of constitutional and state democracy. Activism may be the first new art form of the twenty‑first century. global aCtIVISm (the capitalized letters form the Latin word civis, emphasizing the power of citizens) 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. Essays by leading thinkers‑including Noam Chomsky, Antonio Negri, Peter Sloterdijk, and Slavoj Žižek‑consider the emerging role of the citizen in the new performative democracy. The essays are followed by images of art objects, illustrations, documents, and other material (first shown in an exhibition at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe) as well as case studies by artists and activists. Essays by Can Altay, Sruti Bala and Veronika Zangl, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Olaf Bertram‑Nothnagel, Angela Bonadies, Robin Celikates, Korhan Gümüs, Dietrich Heißenbüttel, Bruno Latour, Sarah Maske, Ugo Mattei, Graham Meikle, André Mesquita, Marcus Michaelsen, Walter D. Mignolo, MTL, Antonio Negri, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vassilis Tsianos and Margarita Tsomou, Rita Raley, Arman and Arash T. Riahi, Martha Rosler, Peter Sloterdijk, Karl‑Peter Sommermann, Guido Strack, Jackie Sumell, Zixue Tai, Tatiana Volkova, Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud, Dan S. Wang and Sarah Augusta Lewison, Peter Weibel, Ahmad Zatari, Bo Zheng, Ragip Zik, Slavoj Žižek. Interviews with Ammar Abo Bakr and Ganzeer, Younes Belghazi and Hadeer Elmahdawy, Erdem Gündüz, Joulia Strauss
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Sloterdijk Peter (Article author), Zangl Veronika (Article author), Bertram-Nothnagel Olaf (Article author), Mattei Ugo (Article author), Meikle Graham (Article author), Wachter Christoph (Article author), Weibel Peter (Article author), Riahi Arman (Article author), Strack Guido (Article author), Sumell Jackie (Article author), Tai Zixue (Article author), Bo Zheng (Article author), Zik Ragip (Article author), Žižek Slavoj (Article author), Altay Can (Article author), Celikates Robin (Article author), Mignolo Walter D. (Article author), Volkova Tatiana (Article author), Bazzichelli Tatiana (Article author), Bonadies Angela (Article author), Mesquita André (Article author), Riahi Arash T. (Article author), Jud Mathias (Article author), Zatari Ahmad (Article author), Debray Regis (Article author), Gümüş Korhan (Article author), Heissenbüttel Dietrich (Article author), Latour Bruno (Article author), Lewison Sarah Augusta (Article author), Wang Dan S. (Article author), Maske Sarah (Article author), Michaelsen Marcus (Article author), Negri Antonio (Article author), Papadopoulos Dimitris (Article author), Tsianos Vassilis (Article author), Tsomou Margarita (Article author), Raley Rita (Article author), Rosler Martha (Article author), Bala Sruti (Article author), Sommermann Karl-Peter (Article author), Strauss Joulia (Preface)
Elmahdawy Hadeer, Gündüz Erdem, Abo Bakr Ammar, Belghazi Youness, Ganzeer
Karlsruhe
2015
9780262526890
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