Fawn Daphne Plessner

Doing Politics with Citizen Art (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how citizen art practices perform new kinds of politics, as distinct from normative (status, participatory and cosmopolitan) models. It contends that at a time in which the conditions of citizenship have been radically altered (e.g., by the increased securitization and individuation of bodies and so forth), there is an urgent drive for citizen art to be enacted as a tool for assessing the "hollowed out" conditions of citizenship. Citizen art, it shows, stands apart from other forms of art by performing acts of citizenship that reveal and transgress the limitations of state-centred citizenship regimes, whilst simultaneously enacting genuinely alternative modes of (non-statist) citizenship. This book offers a new formulation of citizen art-one that is interrogated on both critical and material levels, and as such, remodels the foundations on which citizenship is conceived, performed and instituted.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538151488
• Artikelnr.: 63974289

Autorenporträt

Fawn Daphne Plessner is a professional artist and Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada. She holds a BA (Hons) Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London and a PhD in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London, United Kingdom. She studied Fine Art at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich, Germany, under the artist Robin Page, an early member of the Fluxus movement. She has won numerous research grants and her art work has been exhibited in countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, USA and Canada. Since 2008, her work has focused on public art interventions under the banner of 'citizen artist'.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 What Is Citizen Art? Its Meaning and Challenges
2 The Problem of Status and Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Value of "Acts
of Citizenship" for Understanding Citizen Art
3 Art Interventions as Tools for Doing Politics and Shaping New Terrain
4 Enacting New Modes of Citizenship: Solidarities, Assemblies, and Public
Thought Experiments
5 Altering the Facts on the Ground: Citizen Artist News: Clouded Title
6 Expanding Membership: Citizen Artist News: Kinship
Conclusion