1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century
The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it looks towards the future.
The book is a resource for multiple fields, including art activism, socially engaged art, and contemporary art, that represent the depth and breadth of contemporary activist art worldwide. Contributors highlight predominant lines of inquiry, uncover challenges faced by scholars and practitioners of activist art, and facilitate dialogue that might lead to new directions for research and practice. The editors hope that the volume will incite further conversation and collaboration among the various participants, practitioners, and researchers concerned with the relationship between art and activism.
The audience includes scholars and professors of modern and contemporary art, students in both graduate and upper-level undergraduate programs, as well as artists, curators, and museum professionals. Each chapter can stand on its own, making the companion a flexible resource for students and educators working in art history, museum studies, community practice/socially engaged art, political science, sociology, and ethnic and cultural studies.
Section I: Public Space and Protest
Introduction
- A Collectography of PAD/D, a 1980s Activist Art Collective, and its Legacy in 21st-Century Activist Art and Scholarship
- Aesthetics of Reciprocity: Socially Engaged Art in China and Hong Kong
- Guided Horizontality in Art Resistance Platforms in Hungary Since 2010
- Instructions Within: Art as Liberation Praxis in the Arab World
- Shattering Glass Ceiling: Art and Activism in Thailand since 2020
- 1 to 1: Media and Public Mourning through Temporary Tactical Memorials
- Reel/Real Resurgence: Pasifika Women Filmmakers and Media Activism
- The Visual Politics of Queerness on the Navajo Nation
- Zeke Peña: Illustrating Chicanx Environmental Justice Histories in the Rio Grande Watershed
- Reproductive Justice and Visual Activism
- Be Otherwise, 13 Acts of Resistance
- Historical Memory in Contemporary African American Activist Photography
- A Series of Transitions: an interview with members of What Would an HIV Doula Do?
- Abolition Art: Contemporary Imaginings against the Carceral State
- let them tell it: Black southern women's retrospection within the works of Remember2019
- La Vivienda Es La Cura: Latinx Art, Politics, and Housing Justice in East Boston
- Atomized Solidarity and New Shapes of Resistance: Visual Activism in South Africa after Apartheid
- With a Camera and a Tape Recorder: Through Positive Eyes, the AIDS Pandemic, and the Politics of Identification
- For Foul-Mouthed Activists: Disobedience as Care Work in African Social Practice Art
- Activating Vulnerability: On Artivism in Colombia’s Precarious Peace Process
- A View from the Future: Activist Artists, Writers, and Filmmakers Turn to Science Fiction to Address the Climate Crisis
- Amplifying Our Voices Through Public Art
- What’s it all About, Alfie?
Gregory Sholette
Mai Corlin Frederiksen
Izabel Galliera
Maymanah Farhat
Thanavi Chotpradit
Daniel Tucker
Section II: Gender and Visual Sovereignty
Introduction
Jennifer L. Gauthier
Louise Siddons
Jennifer Garcia Peacock
Tamar Carroll
Anonda Bell
Section III: Racial and Restorative Justice
Introduction
Mary Trent
Andy Campbell
Rebecca Zorach
Arielle Julia Brown
Anthony Romero
Kylie Thomas
Section IV: Community Care and Advocacy
Introduction
David Gere
Nomusa Makhubu
Ana María Reyes
Lisa E. Bloom
Michelle Angela Ortiz
Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud
Biography
Lesley Shipley is Associate Professor of Art History at Randolph College.
Mey-Yen Moriuchi is Associate Professor of Art History at La Salle University.