Month: April 2015

Chandler, Annemarie, and Norie Neumark. At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005.

April 16, 2015
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Tags: Activism, Community Building, Contemporary Art, Theory Related posts wa Thiong’o, Ngugi. “Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space,” TDR 41.3, pp. 11-30. 1997. (0) Vacarro, Jeanne. “Give Me an F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Vol. 14, Issue 2. pp. 43-50. 2005. (0) Thompson, Nato. […]

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Carter, Ennis. Posters for the People: Art of the WPA. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2008.

April 16, 2015
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Tags: North America, Social Change Related posts The Complete Art-Activism Catalog (0) Street, Joe. The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2007. (0) Rosler, Martha. If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. New York: The New Press, 1991. (0) Romanos, Eduardo. “The Strategic […]

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Burnham, Linda. The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena. Raleigh, NC: The Critical Press, 1998.

April 16, 2015
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Tags: Anthologies, Community, Community Art, Community Building Related posts Thompson, Nato. Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. (0) Thompson, Nato, Gregory Sholette, Joseph Thompson, Nicolas Mirzoeff, C. Ondine Chavoya, Arjen Noordeman, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. […]

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Bruner, M. Lane. “Carnivalesque Protest and the Humorless State.” Text and Performance Quarterly 25, no. 2 (2005): 136-55.

April 16, 2015
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Tags: Activism, Carnival, Humor, Performance, Protest Related posts wa Thiong’o, Ngugi. “Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space,” TDR 41.3, pp. 11-30. 1997. (0) Vacarro, Jeanne. “Give Me an F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Vol. 14, Issue 2. pp. 43-50. 2005. (0) Thompson, Nato, Gregory […]

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Breton, Andre. “(First) Manifesto of Surrealism” from Manifestoes of Surrealism. Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1969.

April 16, 2015
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Tags: Classic Texts, Manifestoes Related posts The Space Hijackers. “Second Manifesto of the Space Hijackers” http://www.spacehijackers.org/html/manifesto.html n.d. (0) The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. “The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination.” http://labofii.net/ n.d. (0) The Complete Art-Activism Catalog (0) St. John of Damascus, On the Divine Images: Three Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images. Trans. David […]

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Breton, Andre, and Leon Trotsky, “Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art.” 1938.

April 13, 2015
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Tags: Classic Texts, Manifestoes, Marxism, Revolution, Theory Related posts wa Thiong’o, Ngugi. “Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space,” TDR 41.3, pp. 11-30. 1997. (0) Vacarro, Jeanne. “Give Me an F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Vol. 14, Issue 2. pp. 43-50. 2005. (0) Tucker, Kenneth […]

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Bradley, WIll, and Charles Esche. Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader. London: Tate, Afterall. 2007.

April 13, 2015
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Tags: Anthologies, Community Building, Social Change Related posts Thompson, Nato. Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. (0) Thompson, Nato, Gregory Sholette, Joseph Thompson, Nicolas Mirzoeff, C. Ondine Chavoya, Arjen Noordeman, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. North […]

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Boyd, Andrew. The Activist Cookbook: Creative Actions for a Fair Economy. Boston: United for a Fair Economy, 1997.

April 13, 2015
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Tags: Economics, How-To Related posts The Complete Art-Activism Catalog (0) Schwarzman, Mat. Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts. New York: New Village Press, 2005. (0) Not an Alternative. Retooling Dissent. (documentary: http://vimeo.com/5347269) (0) McIntyre, Iain. How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Hoaxes, Graffiti & Political Mischief-Making from across Australia. Melbourne: Breakdown Press, 2009. (0) […]

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Boyd, Andrew, and Dave Oswald Mitchell. Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. New York: OR Books, 2012.

April 13, 2015
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Tags: Activism, How-To, Revolution Related posts Tucker, Kenneth H. Workers of the World, Enjoy! Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010. (0) The Complete Art-Activism Catalog (0) Shepard, Benjamin, L.M. Bogad, and Stephen Duncombe. “Performing vs. the Insurmountable: Theatrics, Activism, and Social Movements.” Liminalities: A Journal […]

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Bourriaud, Nicolas. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon, France: Les Presse Du Reel, 1998.

April 13, 2015
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Tags: Aesthetics, Contemporary Art, Theory Related posts wa Thiong’o, Ngugi. “Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space,” TDR 41.3, pp. 11-30. 1997. (0) Vacarro, Jeanne. “Give Me an F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance.” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Vol. 14, Issue 2. pp. 43-50. 2005. (0) Tucker, Kenneth H. Workers […]

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