Bishnupriya Ghosh Fig.1 Installation Hum Dekhenge, Shaheen Bagh. Fig.2 Azad with the Constitution, Jama Masjid. Credit: Photo @delhi6wala, Instagram, Jan 30, 2020. Credit: Screenshot Hindustan Times These scenes circulate across media platforms as visual/audiovisual documents long past the silencing of speeches, the dispelling of crowds, the dismantling of artworks. Indeed, long after the COVID-19 lockdown… Continue reading The Democratic Sensible: becoming word in protest recitations
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Contemporary Art, Activism, and Symbolic Value
by Alex Alberro. The concerted politicization of art in the past decade transcends radical themes in artists’ and curators’ work and the relationship between museums and art workers. It even goes beyond the professionalized paradigm of “social practice art” grounded in liberal ideals of civic dialogue. [1] Art’s recent politicization involves a comprehensive questioning of… Continue reading Contemporary Art, Activism, and Symbolic Value
Thinking in Motion: a reflection for a present under multiple crises on the online action Face Mask, Not Muzzle by Tucumán collective La Lola Mora
Leandro Martínez Depietri. While mainstream intellectuals discuss the dawning of a new post-pandemic world live on Zoom and newspapers, for many the sun has risen already and been up in the sky for quite a while. Speaking of a crisis – in singular – makes us forget what philosopher Gabriel Rockhill puts forward with much… Continue reading Thinking in Motion: a reflection for a present under multiple crises on the online action Face Mask, Not Muzzle by Tucumán collective La Lola Mora
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