Performing Human Rights - Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (Paperback)

The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility, contesting the related historical amnesia through counter-semantics and dissonant narratives. Adopting "performance" as a concept that is defined by repetitive, aesthetic practices-such as speech and bodily habits through which both individual and collective identities are constructed and perceived-this collection addresses various forms of performing human rights in transitional situations in Spain, Latin America, and the Middle East. Bringing scholars together with artists, writers, and curators, and working across a range of disciplines, Performing Human Rights addresses these instances of omission and neglect, revealing how alternate institutional spaces and strategies of cultural production have intervened in the processes of historical justice and collective memory.

General

Imprint:	Diaphanes AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	THINK ART
Release date:	May 2021
Authors:	Liliana Gomez
Dimensions:	223 x 141 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-580261-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Performance art
LSN:	3-03-580261-0
Barcode:	9783035802610

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