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How do practices of artistic intervention engage with conceptual frameworks, in particular when it comes to location, institutional context, as well as human and non-human relations? What are the historical and theoretical references that fuel current approaches within the arts-performative, participatory, intervening-and in what ways do these references infer a certain tension between concepts and actions, between objectives and practices? And in what ways do these debates provide possible tools for the analysis of artistic intervention today?
This volume addresses the potentials and challenges of different forms of intervention at the intersection of activism and artistic fields and practices. The contributions, written by scholars from art history, sociology, literary and performative studies as well as art practitioners, present case studies that shed light on artistic practices that respond to geopolitical, socio-cultural, and ecological crises, as well as on curatorial projects, the organization of collectives and the role of institutions within the art field and academia. Individual contributions are accompanied by short interviews that give room to dialogues among the authors.
Taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the non-directional formation of the interventions at hand, the anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions.
With contributions by Raphael Daibert, Agata Jakubowska, Amelia Jones, Anna Kipke, Iryna Kovalenko, Premesh Lalu, Natalia Moussienko, Alia Rayyan, Laura Rogalski, María Laura Rosa, Franka Schäfer, Paula Serafini, Valeria Schulte-Fischedick, Simon Teune, and Mimmi Woisnitza.
List of contents
7 - 8 Preface9 - 34 Manifestation, Collectiveness, Documentation: Thinking About Intervening Arts in Terms of Concept and Practice (Anna Kipke, Mimmi Woisnitza)37 - 58 Performing Absence as Intervention: The Case of Lee Lozano (Amelia Jones)59 - 66 Collective Performance and the Cuerpo-territorio (Paula Serafini)67 - 74 Questions of What Remains (Raphael Daibert)75 - 90 On the "Promise!" of Revolutionary Art Practices: Situating Asja Lacis' "New Tendencies in Theater" (Riga, 1921) (Mimmi Woisnitza)93 - 108 Socially Engaged Art Practice in Jerusalem: A Critical Reflection on Public Space Art Engagement (Alia Rayyan)109 - 122 The Work of Art in the Wake of Apartheid (Premesh Lalu)123 - 136 Rethinking Objectives, Theory and Practice: Studying Artists' and Activists' Perspectives on Impact in Empirical Research (Laura Rogalski)137 - 148 Theory is & in Practice: On the Relationship Between the Theoretically Intended and Practical Logic of Interventions (Franka Schäfer)151 - 158 Theory, Positionality, and the Public Space. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune (Alia Rayyan, María Laura Rosa)161 - 170 Manifesto-Manifest-Manifestation: The Creation of Collectivity Through Text (Simon Teune)171 - 182 Estado de Emergencia: Addressing (Trans) feminicide through Feminist Art and Activism (María Laura Rosa)183 - 196 "I feel that the grotesque will turn into a Molotov cocktail": Actions of Ukrainian Art Groups Before the Revolution of Dignity (2010-2013) (Iryna Kovalenko)197 - 204 Traveling Practices. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune (Agata Jakubowska, Paula Serafini)207 - 220 Art and War in Ukraine (Natalia Moussienko)221 - 234 MANIFEST Yourself! Visualizing and Contextualizing (Queer) Feminist Manifestos in an Exhibition (Valeria Schulte-Fischedick)235 - 246 On Puppets, Dolls, and Harlequins: Textile Constellations between Emma Kunz and Eva Aeppli (Anna Kipke)247 - 260 The Role of the University as an Institution. Interview by Anna Kipke and Simon Teune (Amelia Jones, Premesh Lalu)261 - 264 About the Authors265 - 268 Table of Figures
