Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974-77: Exhibition Histories - Softcover

 
9783753304267: Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974-77: Exhibition Histories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3753304263 ISBN 13: 9783753304267
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2024

Synopsis

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

Published with Afterall Books.

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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Precarious Solidarities takes Artists for Democracy (AFD) as a starting point to explore the entanglement of artistic practices with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilisation. AFD formed in London in 1974 to give ‘material and cultural support to liberation movements worldwide’. Through detailed contextualisation, commissions from scholars, artists, and extensive archival documentation, Precarious Solidarities approaches these histories through an intersection of multiple overlapping agencies and conditions of possibility – artistic, social, political, historical and geographic – to explore the potentials of these histories today.

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Publisher
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3753304263
ISBN 13 
9783753304267
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272