... in addressing traumatic topics, and the activist potential of feminist collectivizing. Between 1978 and 1982, DISBAND performed in a diverse cultural circuit in downtown New York City where the burgeoning performance art, no wave, and feminist art scenes collided. The multidisciplinary backgrounds of the women...

... assesses this trajectory's potentials and limits as a cultural strategy for social change. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 activist art institutional critique artistic labor monuments cultural policy A flurry of recent texts and projects have...

.... Activist Technologies 137 Political Art against HIV/AIDS The analysis of political art that battles against HIV/AIDS and its social effects, undertaken largely from the late 1980s through...

... and current participation in activism.1 And we have seen that scholar-activist alliances give rise to academic work that is smarter because it is informed by the thinking of activist movements. For example, something that distinguished Social Text 97 • Vol...

... . Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology . Chicago : Prickly Paradigm . Holmes Brian . 2009 . Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society . Eindhoven, Netherlands : Van Abbemuseum, in collaboration with WHW . Huntington Samuel P. 1993 . “ The Clash of Civilizations...

.../AIDS tar- geted to South Asian communities in the UK. Similar to the intervention- ist graphics of Women’s Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) and other activist arts collectives in the United States in the early 1990s, many of Sekhon’s images used the idiom...

... The sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Collection Museo Uni-versitario Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where it was first exhibited and performed. 50 Performers were given one hour to work on the form and were scheduled daily throughout the exhibition. The fixed...

... justice dreams may have different goals—abolition, decolonization, inclusion, and equity are not necessarily commensurable projects. 4 Indigenous land acknowledgments are more commonplace in Canadian activist and educational gatherings, where they are often called territorial acknowledgments...

..., leaving many vexing questions unresolved. The events in Jenin galvanized pro-Palestinian activists on U.S. campuses into circulating divestment petitions. Despite the fact that the petitions specifically targeted U.S. firms such as Caterpillar that were providing military...

.... Australian activists Knitting Nannas against Gas make their protests at sites of natural gas extraction and exploration. They are activists who work through apparent inaction, using the materials of leisure — lawn chairs, crafting activities — to occupy extractive space. As their website explains, “We sit...

... of their access to basic medical care. Such brutal realities are not registered on the wall’s global canvas. When, unlike the European graffti artists and activists who address a global Anglophone audience, Palestinian art- ists face in their engagements...

... Institute of Technology. Tana Hargest is an artist and curator whose work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center as part of the screening and exhibition of Women in the Director’s Chair, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Art Center as part of the exhibition...

... memory: a 2000 graphic novel, a 2008 biopic, and a 2014 performance by the art collective My Barbarian. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 In Finitude Being with José, Being with Pedro Tavia Nyong’o Like many suburban queers of my generation, my point of entry into the work of José...

...After Globalism Writing Group “We Already Know How Fucked Up the World Is” argues that one aspect of the current political mood is a sense that everyone, or at least most people, are aware of the injustices of racial capitalism. One common mode of political discourse is that of exposure. Activists...

... the Gilded Grape bar, with the work of the activist group the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), cofounded by one of the drag queens Warhol painted, Marsha P. Johnson. Through careful attention to form and process, and drawing on José Esteban Muñoz’s work on disidentification, the author...

... government propaganda, the working class and students of the city often rely on street art to make themselves heard. During the national strike, huge murals with images and text painted by street artists appeared all along La Quinta, exposing the police violence and government oppression that was happening...

... activists, ordered by the Marcoses. “We were taught not to talk about it,” she recalls. Previously unrevealed memories loosened as I asked and we interpreted. Four years after our kitchen table conversation, I thought about my mother's trauma. Why didn't she go home to bury my uncle—her brother and best...

... about the nature of the performance — was it lip-­synching? Did that matter? Feygin responded that the women had intended to perform, but he pretty categorically dismissed what they did as an act of art, shrugging off what he considered the “idiotic...

... accordingly face a high level of isolation and rejection. In their organizing against this structural marginalization, they partially follow US models for safe spaces and trigger warnings in classrooms. This gets much press along the same lines as it does in the United States: the student activists are framed...

..., will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2004. Stanley Aronowitz is distinguished professor of sociology and urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A veteran political activist, cultural critic, and cofounder of Social Text, he ran for New York State governor...