Culture as catalyst / edited by Isolde Brielmaier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brielmaier, Isolde, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery--Congresses.

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

Art and society.

Congresses and conventions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

276 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Saratoga Springs, NY : Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, [2020]

Summary:

Culture as Catalyst' is a collection of dialogues and new writings by artists, scholars, activists, and influential thinkers on urgent issues of our time. This critical publication accompanies the 2017?2019 Accelerator Series of public conversations held at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, convened by then Tang Curator-at-Large Isolde Brielmaier.0Topics include whiteness, migration, mass incarceration, feminism, monuments, citizenship, cultural appropriation, forgiveness, and food justice. The innovative thinkers that gathered for these community conversations remind us of the power of civil discourse and how genuine listening, critical thinking, and honest speaking are key to building empathy and knowledge. 'Culture as Catalyst' is a compilation of their provocations?a compendium of diverse ways to make new connections, craft pathways to understanding, and spark change.

Contents:

Welcome / Ian Berry

Culture as catalyst: an introduction / Isolde Brielmaier

Whitenes and "default culture"

Fuck the Grammys: the conundrum of "transcending" race ad the politics of excellence / Treva B. Lindsey

Panel discussion / Mathew Cooke, Treva B. Lindsey, Dara Silverman

Migration and borders: visible and invisible walls

Books, borders and democracy / Tanya Selvaratham

Panel discussion / Hassan Hajjaj, Richard Mosse, Tanya Salvaratnam

Mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex - What I would change about incarceration after thirteen years in prison / Johnny Perez

Panel discussion / Elizabeth Hinton, Duron Jackson, Johnny Perez

Technology, visual culture, and the politics of representation

Decolonizing "artificial" art making: the impact of AI on the art ecosystem / Amir Baradaran

Panel discussion / Amir Baradaran, Farai Chideya, Michael Joo #feminism?: activism and agitation in the digital age

Considering a new feminism / Kimberly Drew

Panel discussion / Kimberly Drew, Natalie Frank, Amy Richards

Memory and monuments: (re)claiming public space

The questions that answers hide / Karyn Olivier

Panel discussion / Dan Borelli, Titus Kaphar, Karyn Olivier

Get up, stand up: rights and responsibilities of citizenship

Immigration, discrimination, and the journey to citizenship / Minita Sanghvi

Panel discussion / Sam Durant, Eric Gottesman, Minita Sanghvi

Culture now: appreciate/appropriate

Exploring the limits of cultural appropriation in popular music / Matthew D. Morrison

Panel discussion / Jessica Andrews, Renee Cox, Matthew D. Morrison

On navigating forgiveness, redemption, and rejection

Is forgiveness enough? / Lyle Ashton Harris

Panel discussion / Alexandra Bell, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Karp Food futures: food justice, sustainability, and well-being

Fighting metabolic dominance / Anthony Ryan Hatch

Panel discussion / Kate Daughdrill, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Leah Penniman.

Notes:

"This publication accompanies the 2017-2019 Accelerator Series of public conversations held at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780998242248

0998242241

OCLC:

1222919087