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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420941803321

Autore

Fisher Anna Watkins

Titolo

The play in the system : the art of parasitical resistance / / Anna Watkins Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Duke University Press, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

700.103

Soggetti

Feminism in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

User be used : leveraging the coercive hospitality of corporate platforms -- An opening in the structure : Núria Güell and Kenneth Pietrobono's legal loopholes -- Hangers-on : Chris Kraus' parasitical feminism -- A seat at the table : feminist performance art's institutional absorption and parasitical legacies -- Coda. It's not you, it's me : Roisin Byrne and the parasite's shifting ethics and politics.

Sommario/riassunto

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect subversion from within hegemonic structures. Fisher tracks the ways in which artists on the margins—from hacker collectives like Ubermorgen to feminist writers and performers like Chris Kraus—have wilfully abandoned the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anti-capitalism and feminism. Space for resistance is found instead in the mutually, if unevenly, exploitative relations between dominant hosts giving only as much as required to appear generous and parasitical actors taking only as much as they can get away with. The irreverent and often troubling works that result raise necessary and difficult questions about the conditions for resistance and critique under neoliberalism today.