TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tello,Veronica
ED  - Askews & Holts
TI  - Counter-memorial aesthetics: refugee histories and the politics of contemporary art 
T2  - Radical aesthetics, radical art
SN  - 9781474252751 (e-book)
AV  - BH201 .T45 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Refugees in art
KW  - Memorialization
KW  - Art and Design
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Philosophy: aesthetics
KW  - thema
KW  - Social & political philosophy
KW  - History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781474252737; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Vernica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dinh Q. L, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, `counter-memorial aesthetics'. Counter-Memorial Aesthetics, Tello argues, is characterized by its conjunction of heterogeneous signifiers and voices of many times and places, generating an experimental, non-teleological approach to the construction of contemporary history, which also takes into account the complex, disorienting spatial affects of globalization. Spanning performance art, experimental 'history painting', aftermath photography and video installation, counter-memorial aesthetics bring to the fore, Tello argues, how contemporary refugee flows and related traumatic events critically challenge and conflict with many existing, tired if not also stubborn notions of national identity, borders, history and memory. Building on the writings of such thinkers as Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancire, this book offers a useful concept of 'counter-memory' for the twenty-first century. It shows how counter-memorial aesthetics is not only central to the nexus of contemporary art and refugee histories but also how it can offer a way of being critically present with many other, often interrelated, global crises in the contemporary era
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ER  -