Practising Art Internationally Friendship, Solidarity, and Ethics |
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Editor:
| Choi, Binna Watson, Grant |
Artist:
| Siekmann, Andreas |
Text by:
| Creischer, Alice Eshun, Kodwo |
ISBN: | 978-94-92095-61-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2025 |
Publisher: | Valiz
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Practising Art Internationallyaims to detach the notion of international art practice from a rhetoric of globalization and an exclusive focus on the contemporary. It traces a new genealogy of trans-local practices and methods, presenting the visual arts as part of a longer history of contact between individuals motivated by shared struggles, friendship and solidarity. The publication explores what it means to "practice internationally" in a series of case...
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Practising Art Internationallyaims to detach the notion of international art practice from a rhetoric of globalization and an exclusive focus on the contemporary. It traces a new genealogy of trans-local practices and methods, presenting the visual arts as part of a longer history of contact between individuals motivated by shared struggles, friendship and solidarity.
The publication explores what it means to "practice internationally" in a series of case studies: an artists' assembly from the 1990s organized against an art fair, an artist's alliance with migrant workers, a class-based critique within international feminism, transcultural ways of life developed in the LGBTQ community, an analysis of work conditions in cultural institutions, early 20th-century cosmopolitanism in India and pan-Africanism in the second half of the 20th century. These examples show how artistic practices can generate new encounters, ways of life and historical narratives across borders.