The Aesthetics of Direct Action
Artists, like protestors, disrupt existing ways of viewing the world to reimagine our lives around truth, goodness, and beauty.
Tag: Art
Interwoven Voices of the Anthropocene: Multispecies Stories in the Contemporary Museum Space
Museums hold the potential to privilege the perspective and lived experience of those who have been historically silenced or omitted altogether, both human and nonhuman.
In Praise of Illegibility: Identification, Failure, and Joel Parsons’s Beholding and Being Held
The body is more than just the instrument through which we can resist; how we understand the body itself offers a site of resistance.
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
The Moral Economy of Suffering: Citizen Photography as Political Dissent
By positioning themselves as moral actors, these citizen photographers challenge existing power relations.
Addressing Opportunity: The Landscape of Inequality
This interactive art exhibit explores how the movement of affluent people to a few wealthy zip codes nationally affects income inequality.
The Rise of Skywalker’s Activist Historian
Beaumont Kin is a good example of how those within the profession should embrace the activist historian mantle in our own time and in our own, very real world.
Call for Contributors: Political Art: The Movement(s) of Protest
TAHR seeks essays that explore the role of socially-engaged art (including visual arts, music, dance, ritual, digital arts etc.) in protest movements and other forms of grassroots direct action
