1st Edition

Making Another World Possible 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects

Edited By Corina L. Apostol, Nato Thompson Copyright 2020
    434 Pages 205 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    434 Pages 205 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.