Name: Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides
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Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides

Difficult Conversations

Edited By: Alla Myzelev, Tijen Tunali

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In a world devastated by crisis, what can art do to create democratic spaces? Artists, activists, and curators analyze how to bridge political divides and foster dialogue. Using global case studies, this book pushes for a broader, more conflict-oriented understanding of art.

This book explores what art and artists can do to create democratic spaces, forms, and languages in a world devastated by multiple crises. Artists, activists,…

This book explores what art and artists can do to create democratic spaces, forms, and languages in a world devastated by multiple crises. Artists, activists, art historians, and art curators conduct timely and critical analyses across political divides, informing the public search for an agency, dialogue and self-representation. They analyze how artists transform these social relations through aesthetic means with a shared commitment to bridging political divides and conflicts. The book uses case studies from Australia, India, Mexico, USA, Turkey, Palestine, Israel, the Balkans, Russia, Italy, Ukraine to discuss the possibility or impossibility of building avenues for participation, equitable interaction, self-organization, as well as the common creation of the imaginary and a culture of dialogue. The book pushes for a broader and more conflict-oriented understanding of art and politics.

Alla Myzelev is an Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at SUNY Geneseo. Myzelev is the author of Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living (2016), and Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm (2017). Her research interests revolve around gender, fashion and contemporary culture. Myzelev’s collaborative curatorial work delves into museums’ representation of gendered relations in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Tijen Tunali is a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University. Her research focuses on the relationship between contemporary art and politics. She is the organizer and convener of the international yearly conference Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change, and is the editor of Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape (2021).

Alla Myzelev, Tijen Tunali, Jenna Altomonte, Dimitra Gkitsa, Siân McIntyre, Isabel Carrasco, Jagtej Grewal, Malak Yacout, Kathryn Gohmert, Tijen Tunali, Elena Gordienko