The Exform

Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784783808

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The Exform by Nicolas Bourriaud Pdf

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded. To do this we must go back to the towering theorist of ideology Louis Althusser and examine how ideology conditions political discourse in ways that normalize cultural, racial and economic practices of exclusion.

Author : Tendayi Sithole
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781666922981

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The Letter in Black Radical Thought by Tendayi Sithole Pdf

In The Letter in Black Radical Thought, Tendayi Sithole analyzes the letters of Sylvia Wynter, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, Aìme Césaire, and Frantz Fanon. Each letter is taken as an important site where dehumanization is criticized by means of black radical thought which these figures advocate.

Author : Conohar Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000182392

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Photography and Environmental Activism by Conohar Scott Pdf

This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice. Historically, photography has acted as a technology for documenting the industrial transformation of the world around us; usually to benefit the interests of capitalist markets. An alternative photographic tradition exists, however, in which the indexical image is used 'evidentially' to protest against incidents of industrial pollution. By providing a definition of environmental activism in photographic praxis, and identifying influential practitioners, this publication demonstrates that photography plays a vital role in the struggle against environmental despoliation. This book will be of interest to scholars in photography, art and visual culture, environmental humanities, and the history of photography.

Author : Brian Willems
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000529388

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Sham Ruins by Brian Willems Pdf

In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster, or even canvas, these "sham ruins" are often considered an embarrassing blip in English architectural history. However, Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used to both uncover old truths and invent new ones. Along with architecture, work by Ivan Vladislavić, Tom Stoppard, Alain Mabanckou, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Michael Haneke, and Sturtevant is used to develop this thesis, as well as artifacts such as pre-torn jeans, fake histories, and broken screen apps. Using these examples, one of the key questions the book raises is: what is it that sham ruins ruin? In other words, if real ruins are ruins of what they actually are, then sham ruins should be considered ruins of what they are not. Thus sham ruins are about imposing new meaning where such meaning does not and should not exist. They also can show how things we think are functioning well are actually already broken. Sham ruins do this, and much more, by being lies, ruses, and embarrassments. This is what gives them the power with which we can think about objects in new, unintended ways.

Author : Ian Pace,Nigel McBride
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351031530

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Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy by Ian Pace,Nigel McBride Pdf

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works of others, and performer and conductor who has also been a driving force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy categorisations: once associated strongly with the ‘new complexity’, Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly engaged with many different folk musics, for working with amateur and community musicians, for a long-term engagement with sacred music, or as an advocate of Anglo-American ‘experimental’ music. Twenty years ago, a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the output of any ‘complex’ composer. This new volume brings a greater plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier book was published. A range of leading contributors – musicologists, composers, performers and others – each grapple with particular questions relating to Finnissy’s music, often in ways which raise questions relating more widely to new music, and provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of Finnissy and other composers.

Author : Margaret Hillenbrand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231559232

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On the Edge by Margaret Hillenbrand Pdf

Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid. Users of a video and livestreaming app hustle for views by eating excrement or setting off firecrackers on their genitals. In these and many other recent cultural moments, China’s suppressed social strife simmers—or threatens to boil over. On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated. Margaret Hillenbrand argues that a vast underclass of Chinese workers exist in “zombie citizenship,” a state of dehumanizing exile from the law and its safeguards. Many others also feel precarious—sensing that they live on a precipice, with the constant fear of falling into this abyss of dispossession, disenfranchisement, and dislocation. Examining the volatile aesthetic forms that embody stifled social tensions and surging anxiety over zombie citizenship, Hillenbrand traces how people use culture to vent taboo feelings of rage, resentment, distrust, and disdain in scenarios rife with cross-class antagonism. On the Edge is highly interdisciplinary, fusing digital media, art history, literary criticism, and performance studies with citizenship, protest, and labor studies. It makes both the distinctive Chinese experience and the vital role of culture central to global understandings of how entrenched insecurity and civic jeopardy fray the bonds of the social contract.

Author : Sarah Durcan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030473969

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Memory and Intermediality in Artists’ Moving Image by Sarah Durcan Pdf

This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists’ moving image installations. It situates artists’ moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid intermedial combinations of analogue film, video and digital video emerge from mid 1990s onwards. While film has always been closely associated with the process of memory, this book investigates new models of memory in artists’ remediation of film with video and other intermedial aesthetics. Beginning with a chapter on the theorization of memory and the moving image and the diverse genealogies of artists’ film and video, the following chapters identify five different mnemonic modes in artists’ moving image: critical nostalgia, database narrative, the ‘echo-chamber’, documentary fiction and mediatized memories. Stan Douglas, Steve McQueen, Runa Islam, Mark Leckey and Elizabeth Price are of a generation that has lived through the transition from analogue to digital. Their emphasis on the nuances of intermediality indicates the extent to which we remember through media.

Author : Kyungeun Sung,Jagdeep Singh,Ben Bridgens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030726409

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State-of-the-Art Upcycling Research and Practice by Kyungeun Sung,Jagdeep Singh,Ben Bridgens Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the first International Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and Newcastle University. This book presents state of the art of research and practice in “upcycling” at the international level. The subject of this book, upcycling, is a term to describe the processes of creating or modifying a product from used or waste materials, components and products, which is of equal or higher quality or value than the compositional elements. This book describes new theories, approaches and scientific research findings related to upcycling and presents examples of upcycling practice, across multiple sectors, scales and contexts. Bringing together research from over 35 multidisciplinary experts, the book discusses state-of-the-art knowledge and practices on upcycling in different geographical, economic, socio-cultural and technological contexts at an international level. Readers will gain fundamental understanding of upcycling with its varied definitions and forms across sectors and scales, and to be informed of the latest upcycling research and practices including valuable ideas, theories, projects, experiences and insights by global experts.

Author : Paul A. Rodgers,Craig Bremner
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781648891588

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118 Theories of Design[ing] by Paul A. Rodgers,Craig Bremner Pdf

Theories normally seek to explain something. 118 Theories of Design[ing] asks us to question those explanations. By focusing on a broad range of somewhat overlooked and undervalued essays, papers, book articles, words, terms, authors and phenomena that swirl around design[ing], the reader is encouraged to read, reflect and question everything. This original book will appeal to a global market of university faculty heads and deans, museum directors, design educators, design researchers, key design practitioners, publishers, members of the design media, and undergraduate, postgraduate and post-doctoral students of design.

Author : Elisha Masemann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819960422

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Art in the City, the City in Art by Elisha Masemann Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Great Exhibition
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011778235

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The Illustrated Exhibitor, a Tribute to the World's Industrial Jubilee by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cox Emma Cox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474443227

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Refugee Imaginaries by Cox Emma Cox Pdf

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdisciplinary exchange, demonstrating the vital new perspectives on refugee experience available in humanities researchBrings together leading research in literary, performance, art and film studies, digital and new media, postcolonialism and critical race theory, transnational and comparative cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy, human geography and cultural politicsThe refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.

Author : Roberta Mock,Mary Paterson
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789380934

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Joshua Sofaer by Roberta Mock,Mary Paterson Pdf

Joshua Sofaer works across boundaries, borders and disciplines to create artworks that engage with all levels of society. In cultural institutions or on the street, for art galleries or personal homes, staged as operas or cast as golden sculptures, Sofaer’s work weaves with and through social fabric to consider the ideas that hold us together. Co-published with the Live Art Development Agency, this lavishly illustrated volume is the first in-depth study of the artist’s work, featuring discussions with producers and participants, documentary images and a new photographic essay, interviews with the artist himself, and thirteen commissioned essays by scholars, curators and artists from the perspectives of performance studies, archaeology and opera criticism. With a mixture of intellect, humour and striking design, Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation analyses the artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and participatory practices. It explores the binding aesthetics of his approach as a model for contemporary practice, and it considers the impact of his work on audiences, institutions and pedagogy, as well as on fine art and performance ecologies as a whole.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : UOM:39015022716594

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Code of Federal Regulations by Anonim Pdf

Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Author : Kim Charnley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350008724

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Sociopolitical Aesthetics by Kim Charnley Pdf

Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ambiguously, as interventions that are somewhere between art and politics. This book surveys the resurgence of politicized art, tracing key currents of theory and practice, and mapping them against the dominant experience of the last decade: crisis. Drawing upon leading artists and theorists within this field – including Hito Steyerl, Marina Vishmidt, Art & Language, Gregory Sholette, John Roberts and Dave Beech – this book argues for a new interpretation of the relationship between socially-engaged art and neoliberalism. Kim Charnley explores the possibility that neoliberalism has destabilized the art system so that it is no longer able to absorb and neutralize dissent. As a result, the relationship between aesthetics and politics is experienced with fresh urgency and militancy.