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This book draws on ethnographic research among a variety of activist groups and initiatives that use art and performance-based art forms as a vehicle for social change, to examine the tensions between aesthetics and politics that lie at the heart of art activism.
List of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 'Harmonic Disobedience': Constructing a Collective Identity in an Activist Choir
2. A Viking Longship: Participation in Performance Action
3. From Transgression to Prefiguration: Performance Action as a Blueprint for Social Change
4. Breaking Barriers: Bodies, Institutions, and Codes
5. Loitering in the City: Psychogeography as Art Activism
6. New Narratives: Rethinking Activism through Art in the Youth Project 'Voices that Shake!'
7. Breaking the Mould: Art Activism and Art Institutions
8. Towards a Theory of Art Activism
Afterword
Index
About the author
Paula Serafini is a cultural politics scholar, practitioner and organiser. Her work is concerned with the relationship between aesthetics and politics, and with artistic and media interventions in art institutions, labour struggles, and environmental and social justice movements. She is currently a Research Associate at CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, and holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Analysis (King's College London), an MA in Anthropology & Cultural Politics (Goldsmiths College) and a BA in Art History and Cultural Management (Universidad del Salvador, Argentina). Her previous publications include journal articles in
Third Text and
Anarchist Studies, and the edited collection
artWORK: Art, Labour and Activism, co-edited with Alberto Cossu and Jessica Holtaway (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017).
Summary
This book draws on ethnographic research among a variety of activist groups and initiatives that use art and performance-based art forms as a vehicle for social change, to examine the tensions between aesthetics and politics that lie at the heart of art activism.
