NO Rhetoric(s): Versions and Subversions of Resistance in Contemporary Global Art [electronic resource].

Diaphanes 2023

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This volume maps some of the territories where points of resistance can be located and where art’s resistant potential becomes relevant once again. NO Rhetoric(s): Versions and Subversions of Resistance in Contemporary Global Art focuses on a neuralgic issue which was intensely debated during the last three decades, but has rarely become a topic of its own. It offers an updated way which art presents itself as an agent of resistance, whether in a mere rhetorical stance or as an effective critical strategy. In the face of general discourse of revolt and insurrection that is highly fashionable today, it is necessary to ask whether the gesture of ‘negation’ still yields an emancipatory potential. Struggling between NO rhetoric and NO to rhetoric, the artistic and the political field permanently interfere with each other; sometimes they merely overlap, while at other moments they strongly insist on demarcating themselves. Nonetheless it remains to be seen more precisely of what their respective critical forces and agonality consist. In this sense, the book contributes to a deeper understanding of the different logics of resistance at play between art and the political, as expressed by Jacques Rancière in his distinction between “the politics of the becoming-life of art and the politics of the resistant form.” This volume provides a diverse array of voices and essays from the academic and artistic field that present theoretical approaches as well as study cases. By juxtaposing them, it encompasses both the complexity and diversity of artistic practices within a global instituting framework that seems to capitalize on different political streams. The reader will find contributions on sexual dissidence, ecology and the Anthropocene, geopolitics of the digital age and institutional critique. The authors, artists and scholars from different disciplines share their desire to shed some light on how art approaches these urgent issues.
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Art criticism
Twenty-first century in art
Critical Theory
Political art

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Sara Alonso Gómez
Isabel J. Piniella Grillet
Nadia Radwan
Elena Rosauro
Mieke Bal
Zach Blas
Katharina Brandl
Nancy Garín
Kendell Geers
Ben Grosser
Geert Lovink
Gelare Khoshgozaran
Federico Luisetti
Charlotte Matter
Fiona Siegenthaler
David Tenorio
Jaime Vindel