1st Edition
Making Another World Possible 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects
Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning, pedagogy, and ecology.
Part I of the book introduces the reader to the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present, offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and, in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture.
Of interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of socially engaged art.
Biographies
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
PART I A precarious assembly: ten years of art and activism
Nato Thompson
PART II On arts, politics, and engagement: a selected timeline 1945 to present
Chto Delat? with an introduction by Corina L. Apostol and Nato Thompson
PART III Major issues in the field of socially engaged art
Commoning art in Europe – on the play between art and politics
Hanka Otte and Pascal Gielen
Between art and culture: performing First Nations sovereignty
Wanda Nanibush
Trust or the works were limited
Ala Younis
Making Latin America tremble: feminist imagination against the pedagogy of cruelty
Miguel A. Lopez
"When I speak, I speak as a collective": black collectives and activism in contemporary South African art
Athi Mongezeleli Joja
Becoming: in search of the social artists, locating their environments, reorienting the planet
Grace Samboh
On socially engaged art in Thailand: a conversation
Gridthiya Gaweewong, Thanom Chapakdee, and Thasnai Sethaseree
Magically, new highways, stadiums, and police stations emerge
What, How and for Whom/WHW
PART IV Dialogue: 10 global issues, 100 art projects
Section 1. State of siege
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
State of siege
Justine Ludwig
Projects
TanzLaboratorium
Regina Jose Galindo
Khaled Hourani
Amar Kanwar
Conflict Kitchen
Agung Kurniawan
Mujeres Publicas 1
Pussy Riot
Jonas Staal
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Section 2. Surveillance
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
Demilitarizing the algorithm
Mari Batashevski
Projects
Zach Blas
James Bridle
Metahaven
Trevor Paglen
Laura Poitras
Hito Steyerl
Hasan Elahi
Jill Magid
Paolo Cirio
Xu Bing
Section 3. Confronting inequity
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
Aphrodite
Nuria Guell
Projects
Atis Rezistans
Urban Reactor
Alexandra Pirici
Mika Rottenberg
Ibrahim Mahama
The Illuminator
Oda Projesi
Halil Altındere
Yao Jui-chung
Brigada Puerta de Tierra (BPDT)
Section 4. The uprising
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
The Low End Theory: when they go high, we go low
Rashida Bumbray
Projects
Nabil Al-Raee
Lara Baladi
Molly Crabapple
Etcetera
Victoria Lomasko
Leonidas Martin/Enmedio
Tomaš Rafa
Oliver Ressler
Daniel Tucker
Joshua Wong—The Umbrella Movement
Section 5. Exodus
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
Exodus
Kinana Issa
Projects
Richard Bell
Chen Chieh-Jen
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT)
The Fire Theory
Postcommodity
Khaled Jarrar
Tings Chak
Tanja Ostojić
Slavs and Tatars
Trampoline House
Section 6. Cosmopolitics
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
Cosmopolitical struggles for a pluriversal planet
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Projects
Zuleikha Chaudhari
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Hope Ginsburg
Huhana Smith
Futurefarmers
Lucy + Jorge Orta
Nut Brother
Benvenuto Chavajay
Otobong Nkanga
Pablo DeSoto
Section 7. Race matters
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
After the fires, in the clay dust
Syrus Marcus Ware
Projects
Melanie Cervantes
Pope.L Otabenga Jones & Associates
Maksaens Denis
Simone Leigh
Rena Radle and Vladan Jeremić
Nastio Mosquito
Marika Schmiedt
Sethembile Msezane
Kara Walker
Section 8. Classroom in crisis
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
Classroom in crisis
Jasmina Tumbas
Projects
Kunle Adeyemi
Campus in Camps
KUNCI
Ahmet Oğut
Pepon Osorio
Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Yanelys Nunez Leyva
Dan Perjovschi and Lia Perjovschi
Journal Rappe
Marinella Senatore
Stiev Selapak
Section 9. Queer and now
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
For the We/Dispossession is the I
A.L. Steiner
Projects
Fredman Barahona
Giuseppe Campuzano
Cassils
Evan Ifekoya
Yevgeniy Fiks
Krudas Cubensi
Carlos Motta
Bhenji Ra
Sharon Hayes
CUDS
Section 10. The device
Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee
Is it working?
Tega Brain
Projects
Karolina Sobecka
Molleindustria
Lauren McCarthy
Josh Begley
Li Liao
Rabih Mroue
Mary Maggic
Morehshin Allahyari
Jenny Odell
Joanna Moll
PART V Epilogue
Justine Ludwige
PART VI Glossary of terms
Corina L. Apostol
Index
Biography
Corina L. Apostol is the curator of Tallinn Art Hall and previously served as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Creative Time. She is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks and editor in chief of the ArtLeaks Gazette. Her recent publications include the book Theories and Methodologies of Art History: A Guide (2016), as well as numerous essays for volumes, textbooks, and catalogues.
Nato Thompson is the Sueyun and Gene Locks Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary. He served as the curator of the Creative Time Summit from 2009 to 2017 and has written two books of cultural criticism: Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (2017). He has also edited Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011, Experimental Geography, Ahistoric Occasion, Becoming Animal, and The Interventionists.
