Counter-memorial aesthetics : refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art
Aesthetics, Modern
Bloomsbury Academic
2016
EISBN 1474252761
Prologue: Refugee flows and networked events.
Introduction.
1 Counter-memorial aesthetics.
2 Arte de Conducta and the manipulation of memory: Tania Bruguera's biopolitical ambitions in postwar Cuba.
3 Aftermath photography, temporal loops and the sublime of biopolitics: Rosemary Laing's to walk on a sea of salt.
4 The nexus of self and history: Lyndell Brown and Charles Green's atlas
5 History painting, fiction and paranoia: Dierk Schmidt's SIEV-X - on a case of intensified refugee politics.
6 Counter-memorial aesthetics in an era of contemporaneity: Isaac Julien's Ten thousand waves, Hito Steyerl's November and other engagements with too much time.
Afterword: Living with aftermath.
Introduction.
1 Counter-memorial aesthetics.
2 Arte de Conducta and the manipulation of memory: Tania Bruguera's biopolitical ambitions in postwar Cuba.
3 Aftermath photography, temporal loops and the sublime of biopolitics: Rosemary Laing's to walk on a sea of salt.
4 The nexus of self and history: Lyndell Brown and Charles Green's atlas
5 History painting, fiction and paranoia: Dierk Schmidt's SIEV-X - on a case of intensified refugee politics.
6 Counter-memorial aesthetics in an era of contemporaneity: Isaac Julien's Ten thousand waves, Hito Steyerl's November and other engagements with too much time.
Afterword: Living with aftermath.
