Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1021
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Valiz
- ISBN
- 9789492095725
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The role of art in projecting change, envisioning future worlds, questioning existing realities and conventions is explored by the 39 writers, curators artists and activists who live and work in the UK, Austria, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Israel, and Netherlands. The book extends the discussion of activisms beyond the countries where its contributors live into the territories of China, India, Russia, Iran, Estonia, USA, Lithuania, Poland, South Africa, New Zealand and the former Yugoslavia.
This edited book of original material developed from participants at a 2018 conference of the same name organised by the editor with the Create/Feminisms cluster at Middlesex University. This collection is not a series of conference papers. The contributors wrote new essays, contributed new visual material and the book was reorganised substantially into its main theme of a dialogue between artivisms and activisms, as well as being designed to become the first in a new series, Plural, by the publisher, Valiz. A new introduction by the editor was written to frame the broader terms of the debate and to emphasise the diversity of contributions made to extending thinking about this important distinction within feminism and contemporary art with regard to art and its politics. Asking questions about how art intervenes to challenge or reframe politics and how politics informs art, the contributors offer detailed accounts on the contradictions of working as artists, curators and critics on anti-nuclear, ecological, health-care, ageing, menstruation, sexist language, racial and ethnic conflicts past and present as issues across performance, public art projects, poster campaigns and street protests.
Funding for the conference came from Middlesex University research funds. Funding for the book came from Middlesex University (one quarter), with the majority raised by Valiz (the publisher) from the Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds, Netherlands.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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