"Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada"
offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading
alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the
present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada
and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of
institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical
practice is spread through the book in a series of short
interventions, ranging from the "Refus global" to
anarchist-inspired art, and from Aboriginal curatorial
interventions to culture jamming. In each, the historical record is
mined to rewrite and reverse Canadian art history--reworked here to
illuminate the series of oppositional artistic endeavours that are
often mentioned in discussions of Canadian art but rarely
acknowledged as having an alternative history of their own.
Alongside, authors consider case studies as diverse as the
anti-war work done by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Montreal and
Toronto, recent exhibitions of activist art in Canadian
institutions, radical films, performance art, protests against the
Olympics, interventions into anti-immigrant sentiment in Montreal,
and work by Iroquois photographer Jeff Thomas. Taken together, the
writings in "Imagining Resistance" touch on the local, the global,
the national, and post-national to imagine a very different
landscape of cultural practice in Canada.
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