Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (781 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784786810 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Analyzing the "Artistic Ethos" of Contemporary Progressive Politics G. Sholette 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 somethi. Five Stars Fantastic book and a great buy.
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.. 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. In the process, they called the bluff of a contemporary art system torn between ideals of radical critique, on the one hand, and an increasing proximity to Wall Street on the other—oftentimes directly targeting major art institutions themselves as sites of action. Tracking the work of groups including MTL, Not an Alternative, the Illuminator, the Rolling Jubilee, and G.U.L.F, Strike Art shows how Occupy ushered in a new era of artistically-oriented direct action that continues to ramify far beyond the initial act of occupation itself into ongoing struggles surrounding labor, debt, and climate justice, concluding with a con
He lives in New York City. He is co-editor of the movement magazine Tidal, and the anthology Sensible Politics: The Visual Cultures of Nongovernmental Activism. 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 Faction. . His writing has appeared in October, Grey Room, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Nation and Artforum
A participant as well as a critic, McKee knows exactly what he is talking about, and the result is red hot.” —Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal “McKee’s elegant and illuminating book investigates the intersection of activism and contemporary art in a way that transforms our understanding of both.” —Michael Hardt, coauthor of Empire “Why in this era of neoliberalism and its diktat—Commodify Everything!—has art increasingly become a critique of commodification? Is this anomaly an expression of the peak of cynicism—with artists making money by criticizing it—or is this the prefiguration of a new connection between art and anti-capitalist revolution? If these questions concern you, then Yates Mckee’s Strike Art is a book you need to read.”