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Performance Action - The Politics of Art Activism (Paperback)
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Performance Action - The Politics of Art Activism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
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Performance Action looks to advance the understanding of how art
activism works in practice, by unpacking the relationship between
the processes and politics that lie at its heart. Focusing on the
UK but situating its analysis in a global context of art activism,
the book presents a range of different cases of performance-based
art activism, including the anti-oil sponsorship performances of
groups like Shell Out Sounds and BP or not BP?, the radical
pedagogy project Shake!, the psychogeographic practice of Loiterers
Resistance Movement, and the queer performances of the artist
network Left Front Art. Based on participatory, ethnographic
research, Performance Action brings together a wealth of first-hand
accounts and interviews followed by in-depth analysis of the
processes and politics of art activist practice. The book is unique
in that it adopts an interdisciplinary approach that borrows
concepts and theories from the fields of art history, aesthetics,
anthropology, sociology and performance studies, and proposes a new
framework for a better understanding of how art activism works,
focusing on processes. The book argues that art activism is defined
by its dual nature as aesthetic-political practice, and that this
duality and the way it is manifested in different processes, from
the building of a shared collective identity to the politics of
participation, is key towards fully understanding what sets apart
art activism from other forms of artistic and political practice.
The book is aimed at both specialist and non-specialist audiences,
offering an accessible and engaging way into new theoretical
contributions in the field of art activism, as well as on wider
subjects such as participation, collective identity, prefiguration
and institutional critique.
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