After the Law: Towards Judicial-Visual Activism | Avi Feldman
Law and art are oftentimes perceived as standing in opposition, and even seen in conflicting terms. The first is dismissed as provincial, rigid, and bureaucratic, while the latter is repeatedly characterized as global, flexible, and dynamic. Yet, closer observation and analysis reveal hidden links and layers, and substantial preoccupation by both legal and art practitioners in the visual and in the judicial. It is through the unraveling of spaces, gaps, and lacunae in which both fields of practice and knowledge intersect that this publication sets in motion an exploration of influences and interactions between law and art. Offering a new critical approach and methodology to deal with existing and imagined relations between law and art, this publication analyzes curatorial and artistic projects by revealing overlooked legal dimensions embedded within them. It introduces legal theory and scholarship in relation to visual artworks in order to expand and foster new paths for both judicial and visual activism. Based on the reassessment of artistic and curatorial capabilities and encounters in a time of globalization, it is concerned with broadening our perception of the role of art and legal practitioners with regard to justice.
242 pages, ONCURATING.org, 2019
ISBN 9781699881668
Following an introduction of Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional concept of justice, and Saskia Sassen’s notion of capabilities in a world shaped by the dual existence of the nation-state and globalization, Chapter One focuses on the 7th Berlin Biennale as a curatorial case study for political and artistic activism, and on “Artist Organisations International” (AOI) as an example of artist-created institutions concerned with political activism.
Two artistic projects that premiered during the 7th Berlin Biennale are then critically examined in Chapters Two and Three. An in-depth exploration of Yael Bartana’s First Congress of The Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP) as a space prompting global justice is the focus of Chapter Two. The building of a Parliament in Rojava by Jonas Staal’s New World Summit (NWS) as an artistic reinvention of the Right of Intervention is the concern of Chapter Three.
Judicial-visual activism is further developed in Chapter Four through an inquiry into the theory of the emergence of disputes, and the Right of the Encounter in relation to artistic actions taking place in state institutions. Chapter Five contains a reflection on my own recent curatorial projects dedicated to encounters that I facilitated between legal and art practitioners. The result of these encounters led to the exhibition Motions for the Agenda structured around five motions/projects developed in a collaboration between the participants dealing with legal texts and documents, just as with the place of law, its language, and its archive.
This publication is based on the thesis and exhibition completed as part of the PhD in Practice in Curating Program, a joint doctoral program of the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Reading, supported by “swissuniversities.”
After the Law: Towards Judicial-Visual Activism | Avi Feldman [E-Book PDF]
Law and art are oftentimes perceived as standing in opposition, and even seen in conflicting terms. The first is dismissed as provincial, rigid, and bureaucratic, while the latter is repeatedly characterized as global, flexible, and dynamic. Yet, closer observation and analysis reveal hidden links and layers, and substantial preoccupation by both legal and art practitioners in the visual and in the judicial. It is through the unraveling of spaces, gaps, and lacunae in which both fields of practice and knowledge intersect that this publication sets in motion an exploration of influences and interactions between law and art. Offering a new critical approach and methodology to deal with existing and imagined relations between law and art, this publication analyzes curatorial and artistic projects by revealing overlooked legal dimensions embedded within them. It introduces legal theory and scholarship in relation to visual artworks in order to expand and foster new paths for both judicial and visual activism. Based on the reassessment of artistic and curatorial capabilities and encounters in a time of globalization, it is concerned with broadening our perception of the role of art and legal practitioners with regard to justice.
242 pages (PDF), ONCURATING.org, 2019
ISBN 9781699881668
Kunstvermittlung zeigen | Carmen Mörsch, Sigrid Schade, Sophie Vögele (Hg.)
CHF 35.90
Über die Repräsentation pädagogischer Arbeit im Kunstfeld
Dieser Band versammelt Analysen aus einem gleichnamigen Forschungsprojekt zur Frage, was dar- und hergestellt wird, wenn Kunstvermittlung z. B. in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ins Bild gesetzt wird. Die Untersuchungen zur Repräsentation pädagogischer Museumsarbeit an Schweizer Kunstinstitutionen wurden um internationale Perspektiven und Reflexionen zur Repräsentation von Kunsthochschulen und von Kunstunterricht in der Schule ergänzt. (dt./engl.)
Studien zur Kunstvermittlung Band 1
648 Seiten, Zaglossus, 2017
ISBN 978-3-902902-58-0
Entkoppelte Gesellschaft – Ostdeutschland seit 1989/90 [1]: Anschluss | Yana Milev
CHF 69.00
Der Band «Anschluss» widerlegt den Mythos von der «friedlichen Revolution» und von der «Wiedervereinigung» dessen, was zusammengehört und geht der These nach, dass Liberalisierung die Fortsetzung des Krieges mit anderen Mitteln ist. Der Band belegt die zeithistorischen Zusammenhänge für den koordinierten Staatsanschluss der DDR an die BRD und zeigt auf, warum die basisdemokratische Reformbewegung 1990 scheitern musste.
343 Seiten, Peter Lang, 2018
ISBN 978-3-631-77153-2
Sound Art. Zwischen Avantgarde und Popkultur | Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Sabine Breitsameter, Winfried Pauleit (Hg.)
Band 3 der Schriftenreihe geht mit elf Beiträgen internationaler Musik-, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaftler*innen, Radioredakteur*innen und Komponist*innen unterschiedlichen Ansätzen und historischen Bewegungen der Klangkunst nach. Die Autor*innen reflektieren in unterschiedlichen Ansätzen die interdisziplinären Aspekte der Sound Art, die in Form der Medien Schallplatte und Tonbandaufzeichnung, Partituren, Radio- und Fernsehsendungen sowie Internetstreams die Öffentlichkeit erreicht. Dabei zeichnen sie die Entwicklung der Klangkunst zur Zeit der Russischen Avantgarde, des Futurismus und Dadaismus am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts nach.
Schriftenreihe für Künstlerpublikationen Band 3
240 Seiten, Salon-Verlag, 2007
ISBN 978-3-89770-259-2
