PRECARIOUS SOLIDARITIES - ARTISTS FOR DEMOCRACY 1974-1977

Edited by Abigail Ley
Published by
Koenig Books / Asia Art Archive / The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College / documenta Institut / The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg
English
336 pages
17 x 24 cm
Softcover
ISBN 9783753304267

Price: 105 lei

Texts by Rasheed Araeen, Guy Brett, Virgil Calaguian, Wing Chan, George Clark, Charles Esche, Hannah Healey, Susan Hiller, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, María José Lemaitre Mujica, David Medalla, David Morris, Annabel Nicolson, Nii Kwate Owoo, Cường Minh Bá Phạm, Vijay Prashad, Brandon Taylor, Cecilia Vicuña, Caroll Yasky

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.