Governance Reimagined [electronic resource].

A Blade of Grass 2020

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Addressing the question of how to live is one way to reimagine the rules we create to govern human activity, whether they be collective, autonomous, democratic, anarcho-syndicalist, or somewhere in-between the ragged edges of these and many other possible ideological directions. Even in the face of COVID-19, the rise of xenophobic nationalisms, state violence against dissent, and the climate-driven realities of potential human extinction, there are infinite imaginings of other ways for life and its governance to manifest. Consider artists’ experiments in this most practical aspect of society. What governance can do, at what scale, and for and by whom, is at the core of asking, “How do we live?” In this issue of A Blade of Grass’ biannual magazine, artists from across a diversity of geographies take on how we might live otherwise, how we might rethink governance. From Latin America’s La Plata River Basin, the ancestral Maskoke lands, and Barcelona, to Puerto Rico, New York City, Philadelphia, and the in-between of state-lessness, artists share thinking and projects that perform a particular role: to broaden the capacity of the collective imagination and reinvent governance beyond the stale and undemocratic functions we see enacted in state-houses and capitals across the globe. The through-thread that emerges from the texts that follow, which has also come into vividly high relief as the cracks in governance reveal themselves in a moment of public health crisis, is that the pain and violence of the failures of such governance can also create much-needed space for other ways of being and doing…
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Art criticism
Artists
Political science
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Laura Raicovich
Raquel de Anda
Marcus Briggs-Cloud
Deborah Fisher
Laia Forné
Thomas Gokey
Laura Hanna
Kathryn McKinney
Alejandro Meitin
Jorge Díaz Ortiz
Gala Pin
Miguel Robles-Durán
Jonas Staal
Li Sumpter
Prerana Reddy
Karina Muranaga
Sabrina Chin