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The Art of Emergency charts the maneuvers of art through conflict
zones across the African continent. Advancing diverse models for
artistic and humanitarian alliance, the volume urges conscientious
deliberation on the role of aesthetics in crisis through
intellectual engagement, artistic innovation, and administrative
policy. Across Africa, artists increasingly turn to NGO sponsorship
in pursuit of greater influence and funding, while simultaneously
NGOs-both international and local-commission arts projects to
buttress their interventions and achieve greater reach and
marketability. The key values of artistic expression thus become
"healing" and "sensitization," measured in turn by "impact" and
"effectiveness." Such rubrics obscure the aesthetic complexities of
the artworks and the power dynamics that inform their production.
Clashes arise as foreign NGOs import foreign aesthetic models and
preconceptions about their efficacy, alongside foreign
interpretations of politics, medicine, psychology, trauma,
memorialization, and so on. Meanwhile, each community embraces its
own aesthetic precedents, often at odds with the intentions of
humanitarian agencies. The arts are a sphere in which different
worldviews enter into conflict and conversation. To tackle the
consequences of aid agency arts deployment, volume editors Samuel
Mark Anderson and Cherie Rivers Ndaliko assemble ten case studies
from across the African continent employing multiple media
including music, sculpture, photography, drama, storytelling,
ritual, and protest marches. Organized under three widespread yet
under-analyzed objectives for arts in emergency-demonstration,
distribution, and remediation-each case offers a different
disciplinary and methodological perspective on a common
complication in NGO-sponsored creativity. By shifting the discourse
on arts activism away from fixations on message and toward diverse
investigations of aesthetics and power negotiations, The Art of
Emergency brings into focus the conscious and unconscious
configurations of humanitarian activism, the social lives it
attempts to engage, and the often-fraught interactions between the
two.
All 12 episodes from the eighth series of the relaunched sci-fi
adventure show. Accompanied by his latest companion Clara
(Jenna-Louise Coleman), the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) sets out on
another rollercoaster round of adventures in time and space,
encountering a dinosaur in Victorian London, Robin Hood, ghosts and
a supposedly good Dalek. The episodes are: 'Deep Breath', 'Into the
Dalek', 'Robot of Sherwood', 'Listen', 'Time Heist', 'The
Caretaker', 'Kill the Moon', 'Mummy on the Orient Express',
'Flatline', 'In the Forest of the Night', 'Dark Water' and 'Death
in Heaven'.
The Art of Emergency charts the maneuvers of art through conflict
zones across the African continent. Advancing diverse models for
artistic and humanitarian alliance, the volume urges conscientious
deliberation on the role of aesthetics in crisis through
intellectual engagement, artistic innovation, and administrative
policy. Across Africa, artists increasingly turn to NGO sponsorship
in pursuit of greater influence and funding, while simultaneously
NGOs-both international and local-commission arts projects to
buttress their interventions and achieve greater reach and
marketability. The key values of artistic expression thus become
"healing" and "sensitization," measured in turn by "impact" and
"effectiveness." Such rubrics obscure the aesthetic complexities of
the artworks and the power dynamics that inform their production.
Clashes arise as foreign NGOs import foreign aesthetic models and
preconceptions about their efficacy, alongside foreign
interpretations of politics, medicine, psychology, trauma,
memorialization, and so on. Meanwhile, each community embraces its
own aesthetic precedents, often at odds with the intentions of
humanitarian agencies. The arts are a sphere in which different
worldviews enter into conflict and conversation. To tackle the
consequences of aid agency arts deployment, volume editors Samuel
Mark Anderson and Cherie Rivers Ndaliko assemble ten case studies
from across the African continent employing multiple media
including music, sculpture, photography, drama, storytelling,
ritual, and protest marches. Organized under three widespread yet
under-analyzed objectives for arts in emergency-demonstration,
distribution, and remediation-each case offers a different
disciplinary and methodological perspective on a common
complication in NGO-sponsored creativity. By shifting the discourse
on arts activism away from fixations on message and toward diverse
investigations of aesthetics and power negotiations, The Art of
Emergency brings into focus the conscious and unconscious
configurations of humanitarian activism, the social lives it
attempts to engage, and the often-fraught interactions between the
two.
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Pleasure Island (DVD)
Rick Warden, Paul Bullion, Samuel Anderson, Darwin Shaw, Ian Sharp, …
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British thriller written, produced and directed by Mike Doxford.
When Dean (Ian Sharp) returns home after serving several years in
the British Army, he finds that his home town of Grimsby has
changed beyond recognition. Greeted by his father's never-ending
animosity and his once-cheery childhood friend's depression, Dean
also encounters a new criminal gang that have taken over his
once-beloved home town.
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