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Strike Art - Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (Paperback)
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Strike Art - Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition (Paperback)
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What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics
today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical
lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Precarious,
indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from
servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in
order to construct of a new-if internally fraught-political
imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. In the
process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn
between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an
increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other-oftentimes
directly targeting major art institutions themselves as sites of
action. Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an
Alternative, the Illuminator, the Rolling Jubilee, and G.U.L.F,
Strike Art shows how Occupy ushered in a new era of
artistically-oriented direct action that continues to ramify far
beyond the initial act of occupation itself into ongoing struggles
surrounding labor, debt, and climate justice, concluding with a
consideration of the overlaps between such work and the aesthetic
practices of the Black Lives Matter movement. Art after Occupy,
McKee suggests, contains great potentials of imagination and action
for a renewed left project that are still only beginning to ripen,
at once shaking up and taking flight from the art system as we know
it.
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