Title & Author:

Cultural hijack : rethinking intervention / edited by Ben Parry ; with Myriam Tahir and Sally Medlyn.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : Jump Ship Rat, 2011.
©2011

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Introduction : Rethinking intervention / Ben Parry -- An 'other' proposition : situating reciprocal practice / Declan McGonagle -- Not untitled / Peter McCaughey -- Spaces of urgency / Michael Rakowitz ; Essays on paraSITE and Return / interview by Ben Parry -- Hello, this is bgl / bgl ; interview by Audrey Careau -- Third party, fire and theft / Nina Edge -- Squart / Yabon Panane ; interview by Myriam Tahir -- Swapping public and private / Tatzu Nishi -- War veteran vehicle / Krzysztof Wodiczko ; Interview / Barry Parry ; Interviews with war veterans / Carla McManus -- From Bellgrove to Lime Street, return / Alan Dunn -- Earth between the leaves / Gelitin -- If that's grassroots, then we're Mudlevel / Mudlevel -- Getting away with it / Jump Shit Rat -- Afterword : But is it life? / Pavel Büchler.

Summary:

"Culture Hijack consists of a series of personal testimonies, interviews and essays. It chronicles diverse creative disciplines and shares knowledge about the mechanisms, processes and tactics for multiple approaches to urban interventions which, taken together, form and irregular interpretation of the artist's handbook."--page 5.

ISBN:

9781846317514 (pbk.)
1846317517 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art Philosophy.
Artists.
Art and social action.
Art and society.
Site-specific installations (Art)
Art Philosophie.
Artistes.
Art et action sociale.
Art et société.
Installations in situ (Art)
artists (visual artists)
Art and Design.

Form/genre:

Interviews.

Added entries:

Parry, Ben, editor.
Medlyn, Sally, editor.
Tahir, Myriam, editor.
Jump Ship Rat.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277697
Call No.: BIB 212630
Status: Available