Doing Politics With Citizen Art

This book distinguishes 'citizen art' from within the field of social and activist art practices and examines how it performs new modes of citizenship.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Defining 'Citizen Art': Its Meaning and Challenge to Citizenship
2. The Problems of Status Citizenship and Cosmopolitan Imaginaries and the Value of 'Acts of Citizenship' for Performing 'Citizen Art'
3. Examining 'Citizen Art' Interventions as Tools for 'Doing' Politics and Structuring New Modes of (non-statist) Citizenship
4. Case Studies: Solidarity, Assemblies and the Newspaper: 'Citizen Art' Interventions and Enactments of New Modes of Citizenship
5. Case Study, part I: Citizen Artist News and Its Local Complexities
6. Case Study, part II: Shaping New Terrain: A Newspaper Troubles Colonial Assumptions of Belonging and Membership and Alters the 'Facts' on the Ground

About the author

Fawn Daphne Plessner is associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver.

Summary

This book distinguishes ‘citizen art’ from within the field of social and activist art practices and examines how it performs new modes of citizenship.

Product details

• Authors: Fawn Daphne Plessner
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781538151471
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5147-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, ART / Art & Politics, Political structures: democracy, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics & citizenship