Entry points / edited by Carin Kuoni and Chelsea Haines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kuoni, Carin, editor.

Haines, Chelsea, editor.

Series:

Vera List Center field guide on art and social justice ; no. 1.

The Vera List Center field guide on art and social justice ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Human rights.

Social justice.

Urbanization.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.

Distribution:

Durham, NC : Distributed worldwide by Duke University Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vera List Center for Art and Politics, [2015]

Summary:

The book's first half contains three essays by Thomas Keenan, João Ribas, and Sharon Sliwinski that map the field of art and social justice. These essays are accompanied by more than twenty profiles of recent artist projects that consist of brief essays and artist pages. The book's second half consists of an in-depth analysis of Theaster Gates's The Dorchester Projects. This section includes an interview between Gates and Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni; essays by Horace D. Ballard Jr., Romi N. Crawford, Shannon Jackson, and Mabel O. Wilson; and a number of responses to The Dorchester Projects by faculty in departments across The New School.

Contents:

Introduction / Carin Kuoni

The field. Essays. That incorrigible disturber of the peace / Sharon Sliwinski

On dirt / João Ribas

The political in and of art / Thomas Keenan in conversation with Carin Kuoni

Artists. Ai Weiwei / Chen Tamir

Shahidul Alam / Bisi Silva

Karen Andreassian / Susanna Gyulamiryan

Amy Balkin / T.J. Demos

Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Omar Berrada

Giuseppe Campuzano / Ana Longoni

Chto Delat / What, How & for Whom/WHW

DABATEATR / Omar Barada

Etcétera / Galit Eilat

Gugulective / Kathryn Smith

Hans Haacke / Chen Tamir

Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti / Galit Eilat

Interference Archive / Gregory Sholette

Sanj Iveković / What, How & for Whom/WHW

Amar Kanwar / Pooja Sood

Faustin Linyekula / Shannon Jackson

Mosireen / Negar Azimi

Marina Naprushkina / Gregory Sholette

Tenzing Rigdol / H.G. Masters

Issa Samb / Koyo Kouoh

Christoph Schäfer / CAMP

Take to the Sea / Jenifer Evans

Dorchester Projects. Artist. Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates: a way of working : installation images

Essays. "Some kind of work simply needs to happen." / Theaster Gates in conversation with Carin Kuoni

Utopian operative systems: Theaster's way of working / Shannon Jackson

Collecting publics: the spatial politics of Dorchester Projects / Mabel O. Wilson

Gauging the racial times in the work of Theaster Gates / Romi N. Crawford

Neither "black church" nor "white cube" / Horace D. Ballard, Jr.

Learning from Chicago: responses to Dorchester Projects from The New School Faculty / Katayoun Chamany, Julia Foulkes, Andrea Geyer, Richard Harper, Carin Kuoni, Mark Larrimore, Lydia Matthews, Kevin McQueen, Jasmine Rault, Radhika Subramaniam

Theaster Gates: a way of reception / Chelsea Haines and Jocelyn Edens.

Notes:

"This book is published on the occasion of the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, awarded to Theaster Gates. It is the first in a series of biennial publications that probe the relationship between art and social justice, each one an international survey of the most pertinent examples in this emerging field at the time of publication."--Title page recto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822362005

0822362007

OCLC:

922913885