Note: Page numbers followed by ‘f’ refer to figures and followed by ‘n’ refer to notes.
®™ark 195
“0.10” exhibition 72
9/11, censorship post 122, 124–5
“21st Century City for All” 303
Abramovic, Marina 275
accountability, community 300
Acharya, Satish 238
Action Switchboard 195
activism: accessing history of art 287; AIDS 84; answering back to corporate sponsors 133, 135, 136; of artistic collectivism 202, 204; Boggs on creative 298; choreopolitical 51; Community Art University Without Walls course on cultural 170–2; community-based theater 291–3; distinction between art and political 5, 11n, 14; markers of performance 295; praxis 40; relationship between organizing and 83; satirical songs of Greyson 269; separation of art and 189–90, 236; and slacktivism 266; street performance 290–1; Theatre of Oppressed 289, 290, 291; time and art 38–9, 40; Ultra-red sound collective 15, 83–9; see also cultural organizing for change; Oakland Projects; Occupy; Yes Men
Adler, Dan 28
aesthetic: causality 223, 227; judgement 27; media, embodied thinking within 62–3; space 290, 291; specificity of dance and choreography 44–5; standards/social efficacy binary 107; subjectivity 33–4; thinking, new 62
Aesthetic Theory 35
aesthetics: art as politics and computational 222–9; critique of Chinese commodity 144–5; of disorder 191; everyday 55, 62, 255; interplay between political and 198; philosophical 55, 62, 227; predictive 217–18; relational 6, 107, 183, 230–1; return to 222–3; -sociality nexus 56–7, 58; sociology of art and 56–8, 62; Western 272; see also algorithmic experience, aesthetics of; participatory aesthetics, towards
affect 146, 175, 216, 218, 222, 223, 224
Agamben, Giorgio 33, 49, 50, 200, 208–9, 334
aisthesis 215
Aladag, Nevin 51
algorithmic architectures 214, 215, 219, 227; big data 217, 224, 225–6, 228; novelty in 226; object-oriented ontology of 225–6, 228
algorithmic capitalism 215, 216–17, 218, 219
algorithmic experience, aesthetics of 214–20; autonomous objects 218–19; capture of 215; lifestream logistics 216–17; predictive aesthetics 217–18
algorithmic objects 218–19, 225, 226
Althusser, Louis 83
Amazon 217
The American Festival Project 282–3
“Anarchism: What it Really Stands For” 185
anarchy 188–90; charisma of 192; fear of chaos 190–2; as impractical 185–8; a turn to 184
Anderson, Wes 192
Angelus Novus 72
Animating Democracy Initiative 292
anthropocentric vs. eco-centric worldview 130–2
Appalachia: cultural misrepresentation 299; keeping culture alive 287; political and economic power 250, 299–300; poverty 250, 287; theater 278–80, 281, 282, 305
Arendt, Hannah 50
Aristotle 16
Arizona State University 285, 286f
Art and Democracy Project, New York 300–2, 303–5, 306
Art and Objecthood 272
Art and Resistance course 253, 254, 260n
art markets 25, 29, 112, 114, 202; communist elimination of 73; cultural institutions on parallel track to 100; experimental art in age of 189; investment in 29; virtual products within 96
art-nexus 63
Art Not Oil 135
art praxis 39, 40; in relation to political praxis 41–2; as research 40, 41, 42
art schools 2, 96, 182; in India 238, 239, 240
Art Strikes 27
Art Workers Coalition 27, 30, 203
Artaud, Antonin 289
Artificial Hells 189
artistic labor 5, 6–7, 26, 27–32; unpaid 28, 39, 42, 100, 182
artistic research 311
Artists Placement Group 231
arts and crafts movement 6
Arts of Impoverishment 79
audiences: cultural norms 286; documenting performance 234; first and second 233; laughter 264; participation 233, 234, 275, 279–80, 310, 316; post-performance discussions with 145, 284; social class of theater 169, 278; steps to ensure diverse 281–2, 283–4
Australia, Aboriginal art 294
autonomy/heteronomy nexus 27–8, 30, 33–4
avant-garde 37, 39–40, 69; Russian 67–74; theater in China 143, 146
avatars 275
Babbage, Charles 131
bacilli of art 71
Bakhtin, Mikhail 262–3, 263, 264
Baldessari, John 81
Banga Mata 239
Baran, Paul 118
Barbie dolls 191
Barbie Liberation Organization (BLO) 191
Barthes, Roland 38
Basting, Anne 294
“Battle Stancing” 165
BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) 269
Beautiful Trouble 189
Beckett, Samuel 78, 81, 144, 236
Behring, Natalie 132
Benjamin, Walter 71–2, 117, 155, 273, 274
Bhimji, Zarina 178
Bhopal disaster 196–7, 198, 267
bien decir (correct speech) 17–18
Big hART 294
Bilal, Wafaa 110, 124–5, 250, 272–7
Biljmer-Spinoza Festival 233
billboards, ownership and censorship of 126
Bishop, Claire 108, 113, 183, 189, 202, 223, 290, 293; interview with 230–6
Bismarck, Beatrice Von 116
black humor 265
The Black Tulip 76
Blair, Tony 127
blockbuster exhibitions 96, 114, 133
Boal, Augusto 189, 289, 290, 291, 296
bodies: Cognitive Command and harnessing of 275; data- 206, 207, 208, 210–11; and gender transformation 185–6; labor across 175; and links to GPS bodies 207; as techno/living systems 187; in terms of calculative ambience 224; trans_ 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211
Boltanski, Luc 236
borders 207, 208, 209, 210, 213
Bourdieu, Pierre 53, 56; exchange with Grass 261, 262
Bourriaud, N. 107
Bove, Carol 77
Bowers, Martha 293
Boy, Andrew 189
Brecht, Bertolt 107, 143, 261, 267
British Museum 135
Brown, Bill 223
Bruguera, Tania 233
“Buckminster Fuller’s Proposal to Isamu Nogchi for New Abstraction of Total Reflection” 75
Burnham, L. 294
Bush, George W. 264
café genius 78
Cahan, Susan E. 168
calculative ambience 224
Calvino, Italo 130
Camera Lucida 38
capital 96, 97, 100, 102; accumulation 25, 32, 183, 191, 218; art and 25, 27, 30–2; bodies as 175; global 100, 122, 191, 206; networked 206; relation between labor and 6, 13, 25–6, 27, 29, 30; socialization of 32; valorization 13, 25
capitalism: algorithmic 215, 216–18; alienation 108; art as an alternative to 5–6; art under 13, 25–36, 39, 123, 183; atomized subjects in 140; chaos of 191; and democracy 97, 100, 102; global 38, 185, 205, 214, 227, 267; punk 181, 185, 189; reform in China 143, 144, 145; replicating art into life 236; temporality 39, 41–2
cartoons, political 238, 239; in Indian school textbooks 242–4, 243f; reading in context 244
castles 211
Catholic Charities conference 296
censorship 122–8; in India 237, 238, 240, 244; of Middle East 124; of Panahi’s work 269, 270–1; paradoxical effect on art 123–4; politicising art 123; post 9/11 122, 124–5; repression as recognition 123; space regulation 125–8; structural pre-censorship 126–7; taboo content 124–5; US flag 125
Centre of Permanent Creation 77–8
centrifugal space for art 40–1
The Chairs 77
change, relationship between culture, creative action and political 303–5
chaos, capitalism, anarchy and 191
Chevron, Colombia 135
Chiapas, Mexico 252, 253, 254, 255–6, 259
Chiapello, Eve 236
A Chinese Grammatical Discussion of the “The Other Shore” 144
Choices Ministry 150
choreography: aesthetic specificity 14, 44–5; art of command 48, 49; and choreopolicing 47, 49; and choreopolitical 45–6, 46–7, 48, 50–1; curating of dancer’s autonomy 48; dancer’s agency 51; dancing in dark 51; dispositif 49, 50, 51; experimental 49; imperative in 49–50; paradoxical status 49; works critiquing and deconstructing 48–9
choreopolitical 45–6, 46–7, 48, 50–1
Christianity: liberal, in Singapore 148, 149; and post-Christian secular Utopianism 70–1; see also Evangelical and Pentecostal movement in Singapore
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn 97–8
Church of Our Savior (COOS) 150
citizenship: cultural 304; good 100, 101
Civil Rights Act 1964 163, 164
civil rights movement 84, 93, 165, 166, 167, 170, 278, 287, 298, 304
Code 33-Emergency, Clear the Air 310
collectivism 200–4, 235; affiliation with 20th century totalitarian politics 202; call for merging of art into everyday life 201; dark matter 200, 201, 203–4; hidden archive 200–1; persistence of institutional power 203; social turn 201; surviving in social ruins 202–3
Collins, Phil 234
colonial: archive, and howling of natives 20–2; art in India and anti-colonial dissent 238–9, 240–2, 241f; control of (mis)education 159–62, 163, 164–5; mindset, continuation of 161–2, 164–5; rhythm of work, breaking with 173–4; social factory model 174–5
Columbus, Christopher 161
commodity aesthetics in China 144–5
commodity, art as 28, 29, 31, 35, 70, 182, 223–4, 228; resistance to 145
the common 216
common-based peer production 119
Communism 33, 71, 73–4; in China 139, 140, 142–3, 146
Community Art University Without Walls 170–2
Community Arts Movement 231, 235
community-based art 168–9, 250, 291–3; dogooding 110; move to integration of sectors in 294, 295; see also Oakland Projects; Roadside Theater
community culture see culture, community
community organizing, pedagogy in 316–17
community outreach and education programs 97, 99, 100–2
computational aesthetics in art as politics 182–3, 222–9
Conquergood, Dwight 292
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts 54
Constructivism 37, 73, 107, 201
control societies 45, 48, 50, 120
corporate sponsorship: of big polluters 133–5; criticism of 135–6; ‘a social licence to operate’ 133; tobacco exiting of 135
Couldry, Nick 318
Crandell, Jordan 224
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) 5, 91–102; concepts framing analysis 96–7; prosecution of Kurtz 122; A Public Misery Message 97–9; Winning Hearts and Minds 100–2
Critical Moves 45
critical pedagogy 251, 310–11, 312
Critical Tactics Lab (CTL) 199
Cruising Utopia 188
Cuba 295–6; Havana Biennial 233–4
Cukier, Kenneth 217
cultural equity, program for 170–2
cultural organizing for change: “21st Century City for All” 303; in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy 305–6; in Appalachia 299–300; Art and Democracy Project, New York 300–2, 303–6; becoming accountable 300; creating a moral economy 299–300; creating democracy 302; making a commitment 306–8; questions and challenges 303–5; reconstructing policy through NOCD-NY 302–3; shaping of values 300–1; support systems 304–5
culture: and nature, zoolpolitics of voice and distinction between 13, 16–24; production of, perspective 53–4, 55, 56; of silence 84
culture, community: (mis)education and 159–62, 163, 164–5; arts programs in marginalized communities 168–9; colonial mindset and 161–2, 164–5; Community Art University Without Walls 170–2; creating spaces for 166–8; hidden meanings 165–6; inequality issues 163–4, 169–70; movements in minority communities 167; Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts 294, 301–2; patterns of funding 169; see also cultural organizing for change
“Culture in the Battlefront” 167
On Curating 117
curating 114–20; agency and power 114; amateur 114; and the curatorial 116–17, 120; curatorial turn 114, 115; everyday life 114; perspectives on contemporary 115–16; protocols of 120; of Suprematist art 74; technological turn 114, 117–19; terminology 116; ‘uncurated’ projects 118
The Daily Show 267
dance: collaborations to leave a concrete social legacy 294–5; curating of dancer’s autonomy 48; dancer’s agency 51; dancing in dark 51; innovations in practice of 107; Liz Lerman Dance Exchange 296; Occupations 51; Zapatistas 259; see also choreography
Dance, Theatre, Etc. (DTE) 293
Darboven, Hanne 28
data: big 217, 224, 225–6, 228; -bodies 206, 207, 208, 210–11; centers 210
Dávila, Arlene 167
debt 6, 26, 31, 95, 97–8; infinite 218; student 98, 167, 182
deep parody 264
Deleuze, Gilles 44, 45, 47, 50, 120, 192, 203, 206
dementia, creative arts for people with 294
democracy: and capitalism 97, 100, 102; creating 302; heritage in US theater 287; working-class theater a grounding for 145
derivative work in art 6
destruction and avant-garde 68–70
Detroit, social change in 306–7
The Dialectic of Sex 185
digital technology 132, 222, 223, 225, 227; see also algorithmic architectures
Disabled Theater 51
discomfort and antagonism 110–11
disorder, aesthetics of 191
distributed network model 118
Doctor Strangelove 265
dOCUMENTA 13 96; A Public Misery Message 97–9; Winning Hearts and Minds 100–2
Domestic Tension 110, 273, 274, 276
Douglas, Mary 54
Dow Chemical Corporation/Bhopal disaster 196–7, 198, 267
drum circles 263
Du Bois, W.E.B. 86
Dumas, Alexandre 76
E Pluribus Unum 125
“From the Easel to the Machine” 73
“echolocation” 22
eco-centric vs. anthropocentric worldview 130–2
education: banning of Spanish language in schools 160; colonial control of 160, 161–2, 163, 164–5; and community outreach programs 97, 99, 100–2; Dream Act, New York 162, 166; mythology of Columbus 161; a Puerto Rican teacher’s experience 160; SEEK for equality of access to 166; textbooks 164, 240–2, 243f
efficient causality 227
El Museo del Barrio 167
Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) 206, 207, 209
Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 182, 206, 207, 208; radical transparency 209–10; Transborder Immigrant Tool 207
end of art, desire for 29, 33, 34
environment and art 129–32, 136–7; corporate sponsorship of big polluters 133–6; dOCUMENTA 13 99; ecological reforms within art institutions 132–3
“Equilibres/Quiet Afternoon” 77
ERP (enterprise resource planning) software 217
“Essay on the Violence” 71
Evangelical and Pentecostal movement in Singapore 148–50; resistance to decriminalization of homosexuality 150–1; witnessing of an ex-Lesbian 151–4
Evelyn, Marcelo 51
exhibitions: blockbuster 96, 114, 133; CAE’s experiments at dOCUMENTA 13 97–9, 100–2; “passive” and “active” 73–4
Expectations 310
The Exploit 120
the “expressionless” 155
Eye to Eye at Fremont High 310
failure 75–80; gap between intention and realization 77, 81; and mediocrity 77–8; and perfection 81; in realm of art 76–81
Fantastic Mr Fox 192
Faulkner, Robert 57
Federici, Silvia 30
Feld, Steven 57
Felman, Shoshana 154, 155, 156
feminist: critique 184; performance art 189; revolution 185–6; theater experiments 290
Fernandez, Ronald 163
Ferrari, Rosella 144
festive revolutionary practice 262, 263
final causality 227
financial institutions 3, 95, 96
The Fine Line 60
Firestone, Shulamith 185
Fischli, Peter 77
flag, US 125
Flusser, Vilem 274
Ford 295
“Forms of Times and the Chronotope” 263
Foucault, Michel 20, 45, 50, 51, 74, 120, 129, 140, 152, 186
Free Southern Theater (FST) 283, 287, 292, 298–9; reunion 307–8, 307f
Freire, Paulo 84, 86, 189, 292, 311
Frieze Art Fair 235
Frog Experimental Drama Club 144
frontiers 211
funding of art: alignment with progressive values 304–5; within communities 295; elite patrons 284, 285, 286–7; inequities in 168, 169; museum finances 133; participatory budgeting 251; public 169, 235, 236, 284–5; Reagan administration and control of 284–5; Roadside Theater 281; self-funding by artists at wealthy art events 99, 100–1
“Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change” 169
galleries 112, 119, 132; censorship 123; corporate sponsorship 133, 135; on-line 135; in pyramid of art production 96, 102; visiting 55–6
Galloway, Alexander 116, 120, 218–19
Gan, Alexei 73
Gandhi, Indira 238, 242, 243, 244–5, 245f, 246
Garage Theater 144
garbage: art and 129–32, 136–7; corporate producers of, as sponsors of art 133–6; culture post Auschwitz as 133; definitions 129; ecological reforms 132–3
Gauguin, Paul 160
gay: “gay freedom riders” sketch 266; and lesbian art 123; studies 184
gay movement and Evangelicalism in Singapore 148–58; debate on decriminalization of S377A 150–1; ex-gay ministry 150; film tackling abyss threatening 154–6; government refusal to decriminalize S377A 154; Pentecostal and Evangelical movement 148–50; shaming of gays 151, 154, 155; witnessing 151–4, 155
Ghetto Arts 168
Giacometti, Alberto 79
Gibson, William 207
gift, art as an extension of 6
Gipe, Robert 305
globalization 96–7, 191, 206, 209
God, death of 70
Goldberg, Ken 275
González, José Luis 159
Google 210
governmentality 50; orality as pedagogy of 16–20 GPS 207
graffiti 126, 130, 183, 237; wall-writing in India 237, 238, 244, 245f
Gramsci, Antonio 109
Grass, Gunter, exchange with Bourdieu 261, 262
Grass Stage 142–3; critique of commodity aesthetics 145; Little Society (Xiaoshehui) 139–42, 145, 146; membership 142, 145; theatocracy 145, 146; working to liberate repressed personal expression 145–6
Greyson, John 269
Hamilton, Richard 81
Hammer, Barbara 263
Hansen, Mark 224
“Harlem on My Mind” 168
Harman, Graham 20, 225, 226, 227
Harney, Stephano 46, 47, 173–9, 192
Harold, Christine 223
health system, Moore on 268
heterosexuality 186
Hide/Seek:Difference and Desire in American Portraiture 123
Higher Ground 305
the hive 212
Hobsbawn, Eric 76
Hoggart, Richard 129
homosexuality: debate in Singapore on decriminalizing 150–1, 154; as state approved intimacy 186; see also gay; gay movement and Evangelicalism in Singapore; lesbians
howling of natives 19–20; and colonial archive 20–2
human capital 13, 26, 27, 28, 32
humor 194, 196, 197, 198, 244; black 265; for Brecht 261; contemporary fools 263–5; Grass–Bourdieu exchange 261, 262; jokes 261–2; media jiujitsu 268–9; offside cinema 269–71; provocation and pedagogic 265–8
identity, professional artist 296
“Identity without the Person” 208–9
Imaginary Coordinates 124
imperfection, dialectics of 71
Imperial War Museum, Manchester 126
indestructibility of art 69, 70
India, politics of popular art 237–47; caricatures 239–40; cartoons 238, 239–40; censorship 237, 238, 240, 244; colonial 238–9; nationalist painting 239; nationalist posters and anti-colonial dissent 240–2, 241f; portraits of political leaders 244f, 245; post-independence cartoons in school textbooks 242–4, 243f; wall-writing 237, 238, 244–6, 245f
innovation 14–15, 60, 107, 111
institutional critique (IC) 95–6; A Public Misery Message 97–9; Winning Hearts and Minds 100–2
institutional theory of art 55–6
integration of arts with other disciplines see ecosystems
intellectual property rights 119
interactive artwork 272–7; aura 273, 274, 276; dynamic encounters 273–5; and interconnectivity 275–6; power to spark conversation 275; reliance of experience on the object 274, 275
Internet 114, 118, 119, 205, 217, 275, 295
internet of things (IoT) 216
interventionism 5
INTK 118
Introduction into Politics 50
Introduction to Civil War 210
Introduction to the Grundisse 108, 109
Itallie, Jean-Claude Van 289
“It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry” 103–4, 105
Jameson, Fredric 8
Jemison, G. Peter 164
Jennings, Judi 299
John, Elton 269
Johnson, President Lyndon B. 163, 164, 167, 287
Junebug Productions 250, 282, 283, 287, 299, 308
Kac, Eduardo 275
kaizen 176
Khong, Reverend Lawrence 149–50
Kiaer, Ian 76
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara 57, 288
Klee, Paul 72
Konings, Wim 106
Kubrick, Stanley 265
Kuhn, Thomas 54
La Misère du Monde 261
labor: across bodies 175; of femininity 186; freelance and short-term contract 236; immaterial 175; politics of speculative 25–36; processes outside relations of exploitation 218; relation between capital and 6, 13, 25–6, 27, 29, 30; synaptic 176–7; see also artistic labor; unpaid labor
Laclau, Ernesto 109
Lacy, Suzanne 111–12, 251, 309–20
Laderman Ukeles, Mierle 29–30, 107
language: colonial control over 160; concerns over fragmentation of Spanish 18; distinction between music and 20; as a living body 19–20; meaning in 22
Latour, Bruno 20, 57, 131, 132, 136, 219
“Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, a painting in three parts” 81
legislative theater 291
legitimation (crisis) 97
Lehrer, Tom 265
lesbians 122, 186, 263; witnessing of ex- 151–4
Liberate Tate group 135
listening, militant sound investigation 85–6, 88
literature, recent 8
Little Society (Xiaoshehui) 139–42, 145, 146
Living as Form 189
Living Theater 289
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange 296
locative: art 207; media 182, 207–8
Los Angeles County Museum of Art 134, 134f
Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) 306
Ludueña, F. 20
“Maintenance Art Manifesto” 29–30
maker culture 6
Manual of Elocution 17
Mao Zedong 143
Marx, Karl 28, 32, 107, 108, 131
Massumi, Brian 52
the matrix 212
Mattingly, Mary 294
Mayer-Schoenberger, Viktor 217
media: Colbert’s critique of 264–5; jiujitsu 268–9; new 205, 206, 250, 268, 272, 273; next 275–6; tactical 5, 195–6, 205; youth and 309, 312–14
Melville, Herman 79
memoire involontaire 273
Meng Jinghui 144
messiness 191
Metropolitan Museum of Art 168
Middle East, censorship regarding 124
middleman 115
“The Middleman: Beginning to Think about Mediation” 115
militant sound investigation 15, 83–9
Mitchell, Dave Oswald 189
modernism 6, 13–14, 15, 29, 37–8
moral economy, creating 299–300
Mørland, Gerd Elise 117
Moten, Fred 46, 47, 173, 177, 192, 227
Mou Sen 144
Mouffe, Chantal 109
movement in institutions 50
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 77, 111, 203
museums: in alliance with capitalist plutocracy 100; art made for public spaces in 125, 127; blockbuster exhibitions 96, 133; community 167; community outreach and education programs 97, 100; corporate sponsorship 133–5; financing 133; Malevich on Soviet policy towards 68–9; networks 119; Occupy 182, 203; redefining role 167; responding to exclusion of communities of color 168; selection of exhibits 132
music: distinction between language and 20; in everyday activities 56; and howling of natives 21; pitch 20–1; and zoopolitics 21
music industry 96
mythopoetic 207
National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities 168, 281, 285
National Portrait Gallery 123, 135
National Security Agency 214, 217
Native Americans 161, 164, 287
NATO 100
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCDNY) 251, 294, 302–3
nature: and culture, zoolpolitics of voice and 13, 16–24; relationship between humans and 130–2
Naxalbari movement 244
“In the Near Future” 190, 190f
neoliberalism 95, 97, 98, 105, 130, 223, 234, 313
networks 117–19, 304–5; under Cloudy Empires 205–13; distributed network model 118; organized 115, 118, 119
new aesthetic thinking 62
new media 205, 206, 250, 268, 272, 273; and next media 275–6
“A ‘New’ Paradigm for the Sociology of Aesthetics” 56
new sociology of art 53, 56, 57–8
New Spirit of Capitalism 236
New York Times, fake copies 198, 267
Nietzsche, Friedrich 185
Nike China Logistics Center (CLC) 216
nostalgia 76, 77, 145; death of cultural 68–9
“Notes on the Notion of History” 71–2
Oakland Projects 309–20; action research 311–12, 320n; collaborations 316–17, 318; community organizing, pedagogy in 316–17; critical pedagogy framework 310–11, 312; expanded pedagogy 312–19; formal curricula 314; media messages and counter-messages 312–14; mentorship 315–16; paying attention to advances in related disciplines 312; performance and pedagogy 317–19; police curriculum 316; youth development activities 314–15
object-oriented ontology 184, 224–6, 228
Occupy 32, 105, 184, 202, 258; challenge facing movement 293; London 135; Museums 182, 203; Wall Street 91, 95–6, 98, 198, 263
operations management 94, 175–6, 177
orality: and etymology 19; and governmentality 16–20; proper form of 17–18; “untamed vocalities” 18–19
organized networks 115, 118, 119
Organized Networks 118
orgasm, power via 186
painting: colonial 238; Indian nationalist 239; masterpieces 80–1; Modernist 37; sociological 59–60
Pallasmaa, Juhani 62
A Paradise Built in Hell 305
Parisi, Luciana 214, 215, 219n, 220n, 224, 225, 226, 227
participatory aesthetics, towards 230–6; audience and participants 233; and collaboration 235; contrived and authentic 234; documentation of work 233–4; and educational component 233; failure of a social gesture 232–3; forging of social change 236; making a history and theory of 231–2; political commentary 235–6
Participatory Budgeting (PB) 251, 302
patrimony 19
pedagogy, Oakland Projects 312–19; in community organizing 316–17; critical pedagogy framework 310–11, 312; formal curricula 314; and performance 317–19; public messages and counter-messages 312–14; public pedagogy 311, 313, 318, 319; youth development activities 315–16
pedagogy of governmentality 16–20
Pentecostal and Evangelical movement in Singapore see Evangelical and Pentecostal movement in Singapore
performance: community-based 291–3; documenting 233–4; feminist 189; importance beyond the play 295–6; in institutionally designated spaces 288–90; markers of activist 295; outside art spaces 290–3, 295; and pedagogy 317–19; sharing means of 296; street 290–1; Theatre of the Oppressed 291
“Performing Identity and Persuading a Public” 168
Performing Pedagogy 312
personhood: concept 13, 18; corporate 24
Philippines 294
The Philosophy of the Encounter 83
Pinney, Christopher 57, 238, 239
planning: choreopolitical 47; and policy 46, 47
police, notion of 47
policy: making, cultural 302–3; and planning 46, 47; shift to right in cultural 284–7; social inclusion 235–6
political art 1–4, 38; as distinct from activist art 5, 11n, 14; gap between political content and political effect 38, 41; regulation of space and suppression of 125–7; role of contemporary 67
political praxis 39, 40; in relation to art praxis 41–2
Popper, Karl 80
post-Fordism 17, 177, 208, 218–19
Postmodernism 8
potentiality of the object 222, 227
Povera, Arte 132
poverty 95, 164, 169, 186, 300; LAPD for people in 306; War on Poverty 167, 250, 279, 282, 287; youth 309, 313
power: colonial 160, 161–2, 163, 164–5; of commercial interests 123; forms of network 117–18, 119–20; institutional 203; models of 50–1; theatrical displays in public spaces 290; via orgasm 186
practice-based research 254
praxis: activist 40; art as 39, 40; art praxis in relation to political 41–2; political 39, 40; -as-research 40, 41, 42
Preciado, Beatrice 184–5, 186, 187
The Principle of Hope 8
process of ideation 56
production of culture perspective 53–4, 55, 56
professional identity of artists 296
professionalization of arts 2
Proposition 13, California 309
protest politics, new 188–90; see also Occupy
Protocol 120
public funding of art 235, 236, 284–5
public pedagogy 311, 313, 318, 319
public sector and social practice 103–5
public space: artistic installations without permission in 126–7; expansion of art into 290–3; ownership of 126; political art in 126–7; regulation 125–8
Puerto Rico: colonial power in 159, 161, 163; migrants from 160; racial policies 163
Puerto Rico the Four-Storeyed Country 159
queer: politics 181, 184; theory 184; utopia 188, 190, 192
The Queer Art of Failure 189
rabies 292
Rancière, Jacques 34, 38, 44, 47, 49, 140, 145, 215, 221n, 232, 266, 267, 293
Rasta community 177
Ratner, Shanna 295
Reagan administration 284
real estate 212
real subsumption 25, 31–2, 32–4, 35
realism: classical 13, 14, 37–8; Socialist 72, 143; speculative 218
Reclaim Shakespeare Company 135
Red Fox/Second Hangin’ 278, 279–80, 279f, 281
refugee camps 292
relational aesthetics 6, 107, 183, 230–1
Relational Aesthetics 107
relationality 108
religion 276
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 124–5
research: action 311–12, 320n; art praxis as 40, 41, 42; practice-based 254
“In Rethinking Who We Are” 165
revolution: art in times of 38–9; art of Russian avant-garde 14–15, 67–74; charming and seducing for 192; Chinese 143, 144; Iranian Islamic 269; posters in India 240–2, 241f; of social change 306–7, 307–8; theater as rehearsal for 291
revolutionary practice, festive 262, 263
revolving door metaphor 274
rhizomes 212
Rhythm 0 275
rhythm of work 174, 175, 178; Black Ops against 177–8; post-colonial break with 173–4; synaptic 176–7
Roadside Theater: addressing race and class issues in Junebug/Jack 282–4, 283f; collaborations 284; community choirs 283–4; community ownership 279–80; finances 281; founding 279; Highly Classified performance at Kerr Cultural Center 285–7; national tours 281; in New York City 281; performing in own community 279–80, 281–2; promotional tool kit 282; Red Fox/Second Hangin’ 278, 279–80, 279f, 281; Story Circles 284, 285f; strategy to reclaim democratic heritage of US theater 287; witnessing political shift to right in cultural policy 284–7
Robbins, Christopher 311, 313, 318, 319
Rodney, Walter 177
Roger and Me 266
Rohd, Michael 296
Romney, Mitt 264
Rosaldo, Renato 304
Ross, Andrew 236
Rossiter, Ned 115, 118, 119, 182
Rotterdam sculpture project 103–5
Ruga, Athi-Patra 178
Russian avant-garde 14–15, 67–74
Russian Constructivism 73
Schaeffer, Pierre 85
Science Museum, London 133, 134
The Scope, Method and Aim of Musicology 20–1
Scott Fitzgerald, F. 53
sculptures: digital 216; from garbage 132; ice 125–6; of McElheny 75–6; Rotterdam project 103–5; of total reflection 75–6
Seattle protest at WTO 195
SEEK 167
self-abolition and artistic labor 30, 33–4
Serota, Nicholas 135
services of artistic production 28
Servin, Jacques, interview with 191, 194–9, 267
Shoot 275
sick humor 265
Sidford, Holly 169
silence, culture of 84
Situationist International 231
snails, symbolism 258
social change 123, 236, 270; participating in and funding of events promoting 99, 100–1; revolution of 306–7, 307–8; see also cultural organizing for change
social efficacy/aesthetic standards binary 107
social factory 174–5, 176; synaptic labor 176–7
social inclusion, art and 189, 235–6
social media 114, 115, 196, 217, 218
social movements 84, 199, 236, 289, 292
social practice 5–6, 103–12; across the arts 111–12, 201, 311; and the public 103–5; and social theory 108–10; and support 106–7
social reproduction, art in 29, 31–2, 34
social theory and social practice 108–10
socialism, socially-oriented art under 231
society, art and 53, 54–5, 62–3, 109, 123, 301, 317, 318
sociological reductionism 57, 59
sociology of art 14, 53–66; aesthetics and 56–8, 62; allied with institutional theory of art 55–6; and boundaries in life 58–61; flexible minds 53, 60–1; flexible outlook 61–3; pre-history and history 53–5; and process of ideation 56; tacit assumptions 55
software: art 205, 206; development 216, 217, 218, 225
Solnit, Rebecca 305
songs: Communist 139; satirical 265
sound: meaning in 22; militant sound investigation 15, 83–9
South Bank Centre 136
space: aesthetic 290, 291; centrifugal 40–1; creating cultural 166–8; regulation 125–8
space for performance art: community-based theater 291–3; expansion outside art spaces 290–3, 295; institutionally designated 288–90; Internet 295; to make most impact 295; street theater 290; Theatre of the Oppressed 289, 290, 291
Special Arts Program, New York 168–9
“speculation as a mode of production” 27, 28, 32, 34, 35
speculative labor, politics of 25–36
Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, Chicago 124
Spinoza, Baruch 233
sponsors 284, 285, 286–7; see also corporate sponsorship
Spook Country 207
sports 217, 269; Offside 269–70
Steps to an Ecology of Mind 60, 62
Stranger with a Camera 299
Strindberg, August 37
structural pre-censorship 126–7
Studio Museum, Harlem 167
Suddenly Everywhere is Black with People 51
Superdyke 263
supply chains, algorithmic coordination of 217–18
support and social practice 106–7
Suprematism 67–74; and Communism 73
SWARM 212
Tagore, Abanindranath 239, 240
Tagore, Gaganendranath 240
Tarabukin, Nikolai 73
The Task of the Translator 273
“Tatlin’s Whisper #6” 234
Tchen, John Kuo Wei 165
technicity of art 228
Teenage Living Room 310, 313–14
Telegarden 274
Teleporting an Unknown State 274
terrorism, censorship regarding 122, 124–5
theater: community-based 291–3; street 290–1; see also Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT); Free Southern Theater (FST); Roadside Theater
Theater for Development, Africa 294
theater in China 21–2, 142–6; and capitalist reform in China 145; experimental 143–4, 145, 146; independent groups 143–4, 145; Little Society (Xiaoshehui) 139–42, 145, 146; “people’s theater” movement 145
“Theatre of Cruelty” 289
Theatre of the Oppressed 289, 290, 291
This is Not a Film 270
This Variation 51
Thompson, Nato 189
“Three Dialogues” 78
time-as-substance, politics of 37–43
Tiqqun 210
Traces 275
trans_bodies 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211
uncomfortable/comfortable binary 109–10
unCraftivism 118
unDEAF 118
The Undercommons 47
undercommons, hapticality in 173–9
unemployment/underemployment 29, 95
unions and labor movement, artists’ 27, 28–9, 203
The Unnameable 78
unpaid labor: of art 28, 39, 42, 100, 182; of collaboration 235; in community outreach and education programs 97, 100–2; domestic 29–30, 35; of open source software movement 218
“Unser Haus” 191
Updegrove, Mark 163
use-values: and art 31, 34, 39, 40, 202; and labor 27, 28, 31
utopia: failure over 75–82; queer 188, 190, 192; religious vs. secular 70–1
utopian temperament 5
Victorianism 2
violence, mythical and divine 71–2
virtual reality, future of 275–6
voice: cultivation and regimentation of 17–18; establishing relations between different entities 22–3; “having a” 19, 23; “hearing voices” 22; in history of Western philosophy 16–17; howling of natives 20–3; of lower social classes 17, 19; politics of life through 20; untamed 19–20; of youth 318; zoopolitics of 20, 21–2
Voices from the Battlefront 164, 166
Wages for Housework movement 29–30, 35
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans 107–8, 236
Wall, David 269
wall-writing in India 237, 238, 244–6, 245f
“Wärmeland” 191
waste-pickers 136
The Way Things Go 77
wealth, community-based 295
wealth inequality 3, 6, 29, 95, 169–70, 312; A Public Misery Message spatial representation of 97–9
Weiss, David 77
“The Welfare Show” 105
Whippersnapper Gallery 132
Whitehead, Alfred North 226, 227
Wikileaks 210
The Wild 184
Wilde, Oscar 185
Wilding, Faith 85
Willis, Paul 55
Winning Hearts and Minds 100–2
Wojnarowicz, David 123
Wolff, Janet 57
women: football supporters in Iran 269–70, 271; poverty of 186; Zapatista’s equal treatment of 255–6, 258
Words 275
World Trade Organization, Seattle protest 195
Yellow Patch 178
Yes Men 5, 194–9, 236; Dow Chemical Corporation/Bhopal disaster 196–7, 198, 267; engaging institutional and structural issues 198; fake copies of New York Times 198, 267; important projects 196–7; interplay between aesthetics and politics 198; legal implications of actions 198; measuring success 197; Plato’s ideal 197–8; practicing counterfactual 267; primary motivation and goals 194–5; tactical media 195–6; theory of change 196; use of satire and humor 194, 196, 197, 198; use of social media 196
youth: development activities 315–16; and media 309, 313–14; poverty 309; as target of neoliberalism 313; voice 318; see also Oakland Projects
Youth, Cops and Videotape 310
Zapatistas 249, 252–60, 254; caracoles 249, 252–3, 258; “ch’ulel” 258; clothing 254–5, 256, 257; core principles 257; dignity 259–60; equality of women 255–6, 258; ethos 258; masks of 257; practice-based research 254; resistance of 254, 257, 258; snails, symbolism of 258; struggle for good government 257, 258–60; twentieth anniversary celebrations in Oventic 252–3, 256–7, 258–9; vulnerability 254; waiting to enter territory of 253–4, 255, 256
Zerubavel, Eviatar 53, 57, 59, 60, 61
zoé 20