Art and Politics Now Chapter Outline
ART AND POLITICS NOW:
CULTURAL ACTIVISM IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Susan Noyes Platt, Ph.D.
CONTENTS
Preface: Dr Peter Selz
Introduction
PART I OPPOSITIONS: ANTI -WAR/ANTI-OPPRESSION
Protest Portfolio
Chapter 1 Grassroots Resistance 1999 – 2009
Definitions and Parameters
From Anti- Globalization to 9/11
9/11 and Its Aftermath
The Iraq War
Chapter 2 Art World Exhibitions 2001-2006
Changing Perspectives (2001, 2002)
Opposing War (2004 – 2006)
Opposing Censorship (2005 – 2006)
The Whitney Museum Peace Tower (2006)
Chapter 3 Resisting Police States
The Scars of Franco’s Spain: Antoni Tapies
The Legacy of Latin American Dirty Wars: “Los Desaparecidos/The
Disappeared,” Alfredo Jaar, Claudia Bernardi
Turkish Turmoil: Erdağ Aksel, Hale Tenger
U.S. Atrocities: Sue Coe, Selma Waldman, Fernando Botero,
Daniel Heyman, Trevor Paglen
Chapter 4 Women, War, and Imperialism
Women and War: Tomur Atagök, Cecilia Alvarez, Deborah Lawrence,
Martha Rosler, Coco Fusco
Confronting Imperialism: Dominic McGill, Nancy Worthington
Chapter 5 Racism
Exhibitions on Race and Racism: A Comparative Study
Truth, Lies and Caricatures: Tanis S’eiltin, Flo Oy Wong, Roger Shimomura,
African American Civil Rights: Clarissa Sligh, Marita Dingus, Kara Walker
PART II BORDER CROSSINGS: DEFYING DIVISIONS
Chapter 6 Political Interventions at International Exhibitions
Documenta 11 2002
Istanbul Biennial 2003 and 2007
Chapter 7 The Middle East: Art Exhibitions as Cultural Activism 2002 – 2009
Alternative Spaces: Art from Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon
Museum Perspectives: “Out of Beirut,” “Word into Art,” “Without Boundary,” “Tarjama/Translation”
Chapter 8 Cultural Oscillations: Asia/United States
Hypocrisies and Popular Culture: Masami Teraoka, Maki Tamura
From Propaganda to Dialogue: Wenda Gu
Socialist Realism Inside Out: Hung Liu, Zhi Lin
Asia Society Conversations
Chapter 9 Borderlands
Warrior Spirits: Gloria Anzaldúa, Celia Herrera Rodríguez,
Alma Lopez. Amalia Mesa-Bains
U.S. History and Politics: Judy Baca and the Social and Political Art Resource Center (SPARC)
Challenging Borders: Taller de Arte Fronterizo/Border Art Workshop
Chantal Akerman. Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Maquiladoras and the Juarez Murders: Fred Lonidier,
Ursula Biemann, Diana Washington Valdez and Celia Alvarez Muñoz
Chapter 10 Ecologies
Indigenous World Views: Leslie Marmon Silko and Paula Gunn Allen
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Gail Tremblay
Interventions in Public Spaces: Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Bob Haozous,
Working Collaboratively with Public Utilities
Maya Lin and the Confluence Project
Basia Irland: Gatherings of Water
CONCLUSION
