Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974-77 - Brossura

Legaspi-Ramirez, Eileen; Mujica, Maria Jose Lemaitre

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ISBN 10: 3753304263 ISBN 13: 9783753304267

Casa editrice: Walther Konig, 2024

Riassunto

Critical reflections on the global reach of the groundbreaking 1970s collective by its founders and progeny, including Cecilia Vicuña and David Medalla

This volume takes Artists for Democracy (AFD) as a starting point to explore the entanglement of artistic practices with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilization. AFD formed in London in 1974 to give “material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide” and to use art as “a way of making global political struggles visible.” Over the next three years, the collective arranged several large-scale festivals dedicated to the relief of political crises in Chile, Vietnam, Indochina and the United States. Through detailed contextualization, scholastic and artistic commissions and extensive archival documentation, Precarious Solidarities applies a variety of lenses—artistic, social, political, historical and geographic—to explore AFD’s legacy today. The book includes writings by some of AFD’s original founders including Cecilia Vicuña, Guy Brett and David Medalla, as well as by landmark artists such as Rasheed Araeen.

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Ausgehend von den Artists for Democracy (AFD) untersucht die Publikation die Verflechtung von künstlerischer Aktion mit transnationaler, durch Migration und politische Mobilisierung geprägte Solidarität. Die AFD wurde 1974 in London gegründet, um "Befreiungsbewegungen weltweit materiell und kulturell zu unterstützen". Mittels detaillierter Recherche, der Beauftragung von Wissenschaftlern und Künstlern sowie einer umfangreichen Archivdokumentation nähert sich Precarious Solidarities diesen Zusammenhängen - künstlerisch, sozial, politisch, historisch und geografisch -, um aktuelle Sachverhalte zu erkennen.
Text: Cuong Pham with An Viet Archive, Wing Chan, Hannah Healey, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, María José Lemaitre & Caroll Yasky (Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende), Courtney J. Martin, David Medalla, David Morris, Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, Vijay Prashad, and Cecilia Vicuña.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Walther Konig
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3753304263
• ISBN 13: 9783753304267
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 333
• Redattore: Chan Wing, Morris David
• Contatto del produttore: verlag@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de; verlag@buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de; ; Dieselstraße 2; Köln; 50996; Germania