04637nam 2200553 450 991056309570332120220615005310.01-4384-8574-3(CKB)4100000012026524(MiAaPQ)EBC6726791(Au-PeEL)EBL6726791(OCoLC)1268326806(OCoLC)1275788658(OCoLC)1276834046(OCoLC)1279017720(OCoLC)1281208778(OCoLC)1268326806(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100679(ScCtBLL)a98c94b1-c892-4d54-9ff3-a34981ecde5c(EXLCZ)99410000001202652420220615d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierArt activism for an anticolonial future /Carlos Garrido CastellanoAlbany, New York :State University of New York Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (x, 337 pages) illustrationsSUNY series, praxis: theory in action1-4384-8573-5 Print version: 9781438485737 (DLC)2021000579 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Undisciplining Socially Engaged Art -- Practicing Decolonialization -- Homegrown Theory -- Chapter Outline -- Part 1: Undisciplining Socially Engaged Art -- 1. Art Biennials and Postcolonialism's Politics of Discourse -- Postcolonialism Dematerialized (I): Biennialism and the Contemporary -- Postcolonialism Dematerialized (II): Theoretical Limitations -- Looking for Alternatives (I): Subversive Excavations -- Looking for Alternatives (II): Critical Regionalism -- Looking for Alternatives (III): Curated and Noncurated Collaboration -- Conclusion -- 2. The Lexicon of Social Practice and Socially Engaged Art's Futures -- The Lexicon of Social Practice -- Dealing with Socially Engaged Art's Master Narratives -- Birth of a Discipline -- Looking Anew: Racializing the "US" Genealogy of Socially Engaged Art -- Conclusion -- Part 2: Radical Affinities and the Horizon of Decolonization -- 3. On Experience, Land Use, and the Threats of the Bourgeoisie: Learning from Amílcar Cabral -- 4. Art, Engagement, and Popular Imagination: Around the "Missed Encounter" between Theodor Adorno and C. L. R. James -- Jamesian Aesthetics -- Paying Attention: James as Engaged Critic of Culture -- Creative Forms, Transnational Linkages, and the Militant Avant-Garde -- Conclusion -- Part 3: Legacies -- 5. The Boda Moment: Repositioning Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary Uganda -- II -- III -- IV -- Interlude I: Locating Socially Engaged Art in Africa -- V -- Interlude II: The Makerere Moment -- VI -- VII -- 6. Art and Politics in Times of Reform: The Collective and the Contemporary in Indonesia -- Taring Padi -- Periodizing Indonesian Collectivism -- Excursus: Collective Sampling/Sampling Collectivism -- ruangrupa -- Expanding the Field -- Conclusion.7. Agency and (Street) Art Politics in Beirut: On Temporary Art Platform's Guide for Urban Intervention -- Part 4: Enclosures, Apertures, and the Performative -- 8. Utility, Multispecies Agency, and Speculative Study: On Ensayos -- Introduction -- Ensayos -- Historicizing Utility in the Americas -- Collaborative Art and/as Multispecies Entanglements -- Ensayos as Study Ecosystems -- Conclusions: Redefining Utility after the Privatization of Everything -- 9. Activism and Performance in the Age of Intellectual and Artistic Witch Hunting -- Some Facts … and Fictions -- Fantasmagorias do Império (Imperial Ghosting) and the Making of Exclusionary Public Spaces -- Acting, the Enclosed, and the Unforeseeable -- Beyond Control, Hopefully -- Conclusion: Exposing Ourselves to Others -- Open Coda: Black Lives Matter and/for the Genealogies of Subversive Artistic Creativity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.SUNY series, praxis, theory in actionArtPolitical aspectsDecolonization in artArt and social actionArtPolitical aspects.Decolonization in art.Art and social action.701.03Garrido Castellano Carlos1223090MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910563095703321Art activism for an anticolonial future2837275UNINA