Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (758 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784786810 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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I’m tempted to call it the sequel to Artificial Hells, but this would do a disservice to its enthusiastic approach to activism. Demos, author of The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis “A profound and insightful book that asks us, using descriptions, history and theory, if there can ever be art without movement, or movement without art.” —Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini, authors of They Can’t Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy “McKee is at his best in creatively reading the symbols of Occupy Wall Street.” —The National “Strike Art is written by someone who was directly involved in the day-to-day organizing work of Occupy Wall Street, and who continues to participate in the movement
Analyzing the "Artistic Ethos" of Contemporary Progressive Politics McKee’s exceptional book vividly transforms the events known as Occupy Wall Street (OWS) into both an analytical lens, and a first-person narrative, all the while bringing into focus several urgent issues related to the intersection of contemporary art and progressive politics within a US context roughly between the mid- 1980s and today. But Strike Art also attempts something much more a. CK said Five Stars. Fantastic book and a great buy.
He is co-editor of the movement magazine Tidal, and the anthology Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Activism. He lives in New York City. Yates Mckee is a PhD candidate in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, and has worked with various post-Occupy groups including Strike Debt and Global Ultra Luxury Fa
Precarious, indebted, and radicalized, artists redirected their creativity from servicing the artworld into an expanded field of organizing in order to construct of a new—if internally fraught—political imaginary set off against the common enemy of the 1%. The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an event that had artists at its core. Art after Occupy, McKee suggests, contains great potentials of imagination and action for a renewed left project that are still only beginning to ripen, at once shaking up and taking flight from the art system as we know it.. Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an Alternative, the Illuminator, the Rolling Jubilee, and G.U.L.F