Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories And The Politics Of Contemporary Art (Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art)

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.

• | Author: Veronica Tello, Gillian Whiteley
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Jan 20, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1474252745
• | ISBN-13: 9781474252744