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Podcast: New Books in Politics and Polemics
Episode: Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Description: Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself. The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art (Lund Humphries, 2021) maps, critiques, and celebrates activist art, exploring its current urgency alongside the processes which have given rise to activism by artists, and activist forms of art.Gregory Sholette speaks to Pierre d'Alancaisez about the vanishing distinctions between art, ar...