Title: Forces of art : perspectives from a changing world /
Authors: Kuoni, Carin,; Baltà Portolés, Jordi, 1976; Khan, Nora; Moses, Serubiri; Ghazi, Mariam Abou,
Year: 2020
Subjects: Art, Modern; Art and society; Art Philosophy; Art and society; Art, Modern; Art Philosophy
Abstract: Forces of Art investigates the way in which artists, artworks, and cultural organisations affect people and their social environments, exploring how cases of creative practice have been operational in empowering people, communities, and societies in their given contexts. It is a dense, multi-layered, polyvocal compendium of current thinking about the impact of art on civil society and social change, and includes many essays and case studies from around the world. The driving force is a shared concern and responsibility for societies with regard to culture and community well-being. It challenges the reader to think of art as transformative, not merely aesthetical or a commodity.
Contents: When art opens spaces of possibilities: policies, tensions, and opportunities / Jordi Baltà Portolés -- Making 'The Common': arts practices and social processes in Latin America / Nadia Moreno Moya and Fernando Escobar Neira -- Tickling the sensible: art, politics and worlding at the global margin / Višnja Kisić and Goran Tomka -- 'The most important thing is to have that space!': the power of art and local art communities in Central Asia / Diana T. Kudaibergenova -- Dissonant entanglements and creative redistributions / Judith Naeff, Arnout van Ree, Lenneke Sipkes, Cristiana Strava, Kasper Tromp and Mark R. Westmoreland -- Content sharing and mistranslation: on global aspirations and local infrastructures / Serubiri Moses -- Arts and ecosystems: building toward 'cultural resilience' in Indonesia / Minna Valjakka -- The sustainability of contemporary arts spaces in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda / Kobina Ankomah-Graham and Joseph Oduro-Frimpong-- Criticism is a luxury: on the effect of evaluations / Mariam Abou Ghazi and Ilka Eickhof -- Curating Dakar as an 'Art world city' / Jenny Mbaye and Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis -- Artistic research and its capacity to cross contexts: new methodologies and digital technologies / Nora N. Khan -- Creating space for queerness / Rocca Holly-Nambi -- Doual'art: art, publics, and the city as a 'field of experience' / Zayd Minty, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Naomi Roux, Vaughn Sadie, Anna Selmeczi and Rike Sitas -- Free schools as tools for inclusion / Tiny Toones and Arte Moris Nuraini Juliastuti -- Between memory and storage: digital transitions for art organizations / Maya Indira Ganesh and Nishant Shah -- Histories of the present: on the political agency of art / Carin Kuoni -- Syrian artists outside Syria: conflicts, challenges, and possibilities for artists working in displacement / Fatin Farhat -- Network(ing) from Lima to Johannesburg / Kabelo Malatsie-- Collective creations: art and politics for the present / Paulina E. Varas -- Reflections on a changing world -- Mapping without borders: an account of all art projects.