1st Edition

Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture Making and Being Made

Edited By Corey Dzenko, Theresa Avila Copyright 2018
    220 Pages 26 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    218 Pages 26 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    218 Pages 26 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural citizenships from the late 1970s to today. Contributors to this book examine an assortment of visual media—painting, sculpture, photography, performance, the built environment, new media, and social practice—within diverse and international communities, such as the United States, South Africa, Turkey, and New Zealand. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to, citizenship in terms of: nation building, civic practices, border zones, transnationalism, statelessness, and affects of belonging as well as alternate forms of, or resistance to, citizenship.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    List of Illustrations

    Acknowledgements

    Contributors

    Chapter 1. Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: An Introduction

    Corey Dzenko and Theresa Avila

    Chapter 2. A Bid for Direct Representation: Creative Participation in Franco Vaccari’s Photomatic d’Italia

    Martina Tanga

    Chapter 3. Chinese in America: Flo Oy Wong, Suturing Gaps in the Weave

    Melanie Herzog

    Chapter 4. Rethinking Nationalist, Ethno-racist, and Gendered Myths: An Art Historical Take on Minoritarian Variations from Turkey

    Eser Selen

    Chapter 5. Potentials of Exchange, Fellowship, and Love: Contemporary Art, Citizenship, and Performance in South Africa

    Raél Jero Salley

    Chapter 6. Toward an Artistic Insurgency in India: Post-National Impulses in Contemporary Art

    John Xaviers

    Chapter 7. The Visibility of Media Citizenship and the Invisibility in Mikhail Sebastian’s Samoan Vacation

    Emily Sue Kofoed

    Chapter 8. This is Your America: Vincent Valdez’s The Strangest Fruit

    Andrea Lepage

    Chapter 9. Temporary Use: Exploring the Links Between Volunteering and Citizenship

    Sally Carlton and Suzanne Vallance

    Chapter 10. Activism and Citizenship: Performing Memory and Acts of Memorialization in Austria

    Karen Frostig

    Chapter 11. Sounding Citizenship: An Ongoing Discussion on Art, Affect, and Belonging

    Gabrielle Moser with Bambitchell (Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell)

    Chapter 12. Radical Listening: Art and Citizenship in the Public Square—An Interview

    Sheryl Oring with Corey Dzenko

    Biography

    Corey Dzenko is Assistant Professor of Art History at Monmouth University.

    Theresa Avila is Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University, Channel Islands.