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Counter-memorial aesthetics : refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art
Title:
Counter-memorial aesthetics : refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art

Radical aesthetics, radical art

Radical aesthetics, radical art.
Author:
Tello, Verónica, author.
ISBN:
9781474252744

9781474252737
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Physical Description:
xix, 252 pages ; 23 cm.
Series:
Radical aesthetics, radical art

Radical aesthetics, radical art.
Contents:
Counter-Memorial Aesthetics -- Arte de Conducta and The Manipulation of Memory: Tania Bruguera's Biopolitical Ambitions in Postwar Cuba -- Aftermath Photography, Temporal Loops and the Sublime of Biopolitics: Rosemary Laing's to walk on a sea of salt -- The Nexus of Self and History: Lyndell Brown and Charles Green's Atlas -- History Painting, Fiction and Paranoia: Dierk Schmidt's SIEV-X -- On a Case of Intensified Refugee Politics -- Counter-Memorial Aesthetics in an Era of Contemporaneity: Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves, Hito Steyerl's November and other Engagements with Too Much Time.
Abstract:
Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dinh Q. Lé, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, 'counter-memorial aesthetics'. Building on the writings of such thinkers as Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière, this book offers a useful concept of 'counter-memory' for the twenty-first century. It shows how counter-memorial aesthetics is not only central to the nexus of contemporary art and refugee histories but also how it can offer a way of being critically present with many other, often interrelated, global crises in the contemporary era.--From book description, Amazon.com.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.
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