Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant worldwide examples of art and social justice and introduces an interested audience of artists, policy makers, scholars, and writers to new ways of thinking about how justice is defined, advanced, and practiced through the arts. In so doing, it assembles some of the latest scholarship in this field while refining our vocabulary for speaking about social justice, social engagement, community enhancement, empowerment, and even art itself.
The book's first half contains three essays by Thomas Keenan, João Ribas, and Sharon Sliwinski that map the field of art and social justice. These essays are accompanied by more than twenty profiles of recent artist projects that consist of brief essays and artist pages. This curated and carefully considered map of artists and projects identifies key moments in art and social justice.
The book's second half consists of an in-depth analysis of Theaster Gates's
The Dorchester Projects, which won the inaugural Vera List Prize for Art and Politics. Produced to complement the project’s exhibition at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design in September 2013, this analysis illuminates Gates's rich, complex, and exemplary work. This section includes an interview between Gates and Vera List Center director Carin Kuoni; essays by Horace D. Ballard Jr., Romi N. Crawford, Shannon Jackson, and Mabel O. Wilson; and a number of responses to
The Dorchester Projects by faculty in departments across The New School.
Published by Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Carin Kuoni
- Part I: The Field
- Essays
- That Incorrigible Disturber of the Peace: Sharon Sliwinski
- On Dirt: João Ribas
- The Political in and of Art: Thomas Keenan in conversation with Carin Kuoni
- Artists
- Ai Weiwei: Chen Tamir
- Shahidul Alam: Bisi Silva
- Karen Andreassian: Susanna Gyulamiryan
- Amy Balkin: T.J. Demos
- Bibliothèques Sans Frontières: Omar Berrada
- Giuseppe Campuzano: Ana Longoni
- Chto Delat: What, How & for Whom/WHW
- Dabateatr: Omar Berrada
- Etcétera: Galit Eilat
- Gugulective: Kathryn Smith
- Hans Haacke: Chen Tamir
- Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti: Galit Eilat
- Interference Archive: Gregory Sholette
- Sanja Ivekovic: What, How & for Whom/WHW
- Amar Kanwar: Pooja Sood
- Faustin Linyekula: Shannon Jackson
- Mosireen: Negar Azimi
- Marina Naprushkina: Gregory Sholette
- Tenzing Rigdol: H.G. Masters
- Issa Samb: Koyo Kouoh
- Christoph Schäfer: CAMP
- Take to the Sea: Jenifer Evans
- Part II: Dorchester Projects
- Artists
- Theaster Gates
- Theaster Gates: A Way of Working Installation Images
- Essays
- “Some Kind of Work Simply Needs to Happen.”: Theaster Gates in conversation with Carin Kuoni
- Utopian Operating Systems: Theaster’s Way of Working Shannon Jackson
- Collecting Publics: The Spatial Politics of Dorchester Projects Mabel O. Wilson
- Gauging the Racial Times in the Work of Theaster Gates: Romi N. Crawford
- Neither “Black Church” nor “White Cube”: Horace D. Ballard, JR.
- Learning from Chicago: Responses to Dorchester Projects from The New School Faculty
- Katayoun Chamany
- Julia Foulkes
- Richard Harper
- Carin Kuoni
- Mark Larrimore
- Lydia Matthews
- Kevin McQueen
- Jasmine Rault
- Radhika Subramaniam
- Theaster Gates: A Way of Reception Chelsea Haines and Jocelyn Edens
- Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics
- Nominated Projects
- Vera List Center
- Book Contributors
- Index
- Image Credits
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Audio
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