Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture

Making and Being Made

Corey Dzenko, Theresa Avila

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780815365952
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351260268
• Topic: Arte
• Subtopic: Arte general

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural citizenships from the late 1970s to today. Contributors to this book examine an assortment of visual media—painting, sculpture, photography, performance, the built environment, new media, and social practice—within diverse and international communities, such as the United States, South Africa, Turkey, and New Zealand. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to, citizenship in terms of: nation building, civic practices, border zones, transnationalism, statelessness, and affects of belonging as well as alternate forms of, or resistance to, citizenship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• 1 Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: An Introduction
• 2 A Bid for Direct Representation: Creative Participation in Franco Vaccari’s Photomatic d’Italia
• 3 Chinese in America: Flo Oy Wong, Suturing Gaps in the Weave
• 4 Rethinking Nationalist, Ethno-racist, and Gendered Myths: An Art Historical Take on Minoritarian Variations From Turkey
• 5 Potentials of Exchange, Fellowship, and Love: Contemporary Art, Citizenship, and Performance in South Africa
• 6 Toward an Artistic Insurgency in India: Post-national Impulses in Contemporary Art
• 7 The Visibility of Media Citizenship and the Invisibility of Statelessness: Mikhail Sebastian’s Samoan Vacation
• 8 This Is Your America: Racially Motivated Violence and Vincent Valdez’s The Strangest Fruit
• 9 Temporary Use in Christchurch: Exploring the Links Between Volunteering and Citizenship
• 10 Activism and Citizenship: Performing Memory and Acts of Memorialization in Austria
• 11 Sounding Citizenship in Canada: An Ongoing Discussion on Art, Affect, and Belonging
• 12 Radical Listening: Art and Citizenship in the Public Square—An Interview
• Index
• Plates