1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557186503321

Autore

Fisher Anna Watkins

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2020

ISBN

9781478008842

1478008849

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

700.103

Soggetti

Arts - Political aspects - History - 21st century

Arts and society - History - 21st century

Artists - Political activity

Feminism and the arts

Feminism in art

Artists and community

Politics and culture

Arts, Modern - 21st century

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 art's institutional absorption, millennial precarity, and ambivalent legacies -- Coda. It's not you, it's me : Roisin Byrne and the parasite's shifting ethics and politics.

Sommario/riassunto

"Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, Anna Watkins Fisher theorizes parasitism--a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within."--