Editorʼs Acknowledgments. Tirdad Zolghadr -- Shake Hands / Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev -- Politics Burned a Hole through My Heart / Joshua Decter -- "What Is to Be Done?" : Negations in the Political Imaginary of the Interregnum / Mick Wilson -- An Infrastructure of Resonance / Nato Thompson -- The Indestructible in Us / Defne Ayas -- Be Active against the Activism of "Good Morals" : (Fragmentary and Contradictory Notes on Some Current Challenges) / Hou Hanru -- The New Relational Landscape : Toward a Poly-Subjecthood / Nicolas Bourriaud -- Against Rogues : Curating in States of Crisis / Terry Smith -- Manifesto for the Rights of Access to Colonial Collections Sequestered in Western Europe, and Notes on the Necropolitics of Ethnographic Collections / Clémentine Deliss -- Cosmopolitics of the Living / María Belén Sáez de Ibarra -- My Not-Manifesto for Art, Society, and Mondialité / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Iʼm Not Who You Think Iʼm Not / Gabi Ngcobo -- Migration as New Universalism / Boris Groys -- Dangerous Correctness / Pi Li -- Imagining Decolonizing Spaces for Autonomous Survival : (Against the Legacy of Modernity) / Irmgard Emmelhainz -- Creative Class Warfare / Brian Kuan Wood -- A Pledge to an Impossible Analysis / Antonia Majaca -- The Space of Activism / Steven Henry Madoff -- More of Some of the Same : Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Survival Techniques, and Speculation / Maria Lind -- The Tipping Point : The Leverage of Cultural Institutions / Jack Persekian with Alison Carmel Ramer -- Humble Means / Ute Meta Bauer -- Shake Hands / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Plenary Session -- Contributors -- Editorʼs Acknowledgments.
Summary:
With the global rise of a politics of shock, driven by nationalist and authoritarian regimes, what paths to resistance and sites of sanctuary can cultural institutions offer? In this book, more than twenty of the world's leading curators and thinkers about contemporary art offer powerful case studies from their own work, along with historical and theoretical perspectives, that point the way for cultural producers everywhere to engage audiences in creative forms of protest and advocacy capable of confronting the fierce political challenges of today and tomorrow.
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