FUTURE/PRESENT : Arts in a Changing America / ed. by Roberta Uno, Daniela Alvarez, Elizabeth M. Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarez, Daniela.

Contributor:

Alvarez, Daniela, Editor.

Uno, Roberta, Editor.

Webb, Elizabeth M., Editor.

ArtChangeUS, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-racism--United States--History--21st century.

Anti-racism.

Arts and society--United States--History--21st century.

Arts and society.

Arts--Political aspects--United States--History--21st century.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Place of Publication:

2024.

Durham : Duke University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Daniela Alvarez is REFRAME editor and Research Manager at Arts in a Changing America, and Public Programs Coordinator at the Getty Museum.Roberta Uno is a theater director and Founding Director of Arts in a Changing America.Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker and Senior Creative Producer at Arts in a Changing America.

Summary:

FUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today's most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESENT advances the role of artists as first responders to injustices, creative stewards in the cohesion and health of communities, and innovative strategists for equity.Selected contributors. Dahlak Brathwaite, adrienne maree brown, Jeff Chang, Tameca Cole, Ofelia Esparza, Antoine Hunter, Nobuko Miyamoto, Wendy Red Star, Spel, Jose Antonio Vargas, Carrie Mae Weems, Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Call

vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance)

PART 1 / CULTURAL PRESENCE: PLACEKEEPING AND BELONGING

Introduction

Aqui Estoy

Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance

An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded

Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music

Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans

Collectively Directing the Current

The New Eagle Creek Saloon

Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the "Creative City" Gone Wrong-an Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012 - 2016

"Building Temples for Tomorrow": Cultural Workers as Construction Crews

Invasive Species

Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo

Local Fruit Still Life

Stage One: Establishing Community

Red 40

More Nodes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguiente/the turns of the Next

PART 2 / DISMANTLING BORDERS, BUILDING BRIDGES: MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS

Mano Poderosa

A Cosmos of Dis/Joints

Cross-Border Citizens

Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing

Vessels: A Conversation

Fence

A Touch of Otherness

Harmattan Haze

Who Is the #EmergingUS?

Justice and Equity: We're Coming for It All

building bricks for communal healing

We Never Needed Documents to Thrive

prop·er

Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives

Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings

PART 3 / CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT PRISONS: CULTURE AND THE CARCERAL STATE

To Create in Prison

A Measure of Joy

There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice

HOGAR

I Remember

Coming Home

Singing Our Way to Abolition

Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder

Locked in a Dark Calm

As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe

Jumpsuit Project

The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us

The Nail That Sticks Out

Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives

Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt)

The Evanesced Series (2016 - )

PART 4 / EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES: RENEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS WITH LAND

Kiksuya

America Doesn't Exist

Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder

Sopa de Ostión

Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us

ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings

Essential Economy

Earth Mama II

We Are Part of This Land

Mauka House

Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field

Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum

Secrets That the Wind Carries Away

Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home

Ballers

PART 5 / LIVING OUR LEGACY: ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE AS RADICAL FUTURITY

These Roots Run Deep

The Future Is Ancient

Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiyah Ayubbi

1619

Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village-a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson

Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience

Español

Apsáalooke Feminist #4

Mother's Words and Grandmother's Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation)

The AIM Song

Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity

For Paradise

What Is the New Basket That We're Going to Weave?

I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: 'Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity

The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA!

PART 6 / CURRENTS BEYOND: ARTISTS SHIFTING PARADIGMS OF INEQUITY

Bang Bang

The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice

We Begin by Listening

EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists

Listening through Dance

Scenes & Takes

Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid

What Would Upski Think?

all organizing is science fiction

Rebirth Garments

A Call to Action

Huliau

SOVEREIGN

Flexing Hope Is a Practice

Azadi

AFTERWORD

emergence (after adrienne maree brown)

Acknowledgments

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Feb 2024)

ISBN:

1-4780-9371-4

OCLC:

1402219527