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This review covers Beninese artist Meschac Gaba's twelve-room installation Museum of Contemporary African Art (July 3–September 22, 2013), presented at Tate Modern in London, which acquired the work as part of a two-year program to highlight contemporary African art. The show offered the public a unique experience by bringing together the conventional structures of a museum with Gaba's unconventional and playful structures, which question the nature of the museum and change the Western viewer's perception of African art.

Over the last decade, there has been rising interest in speculative fiction in contemporary art practice. These practices are appearing in a context where the future is being contested through resurgent patriarchal nationalism, ongoing settler-colonialism and the uneven distribution of environmental crisis. This thesis examines a group of artistic practices that use speculative fiction to navigate these spatial and geopolitical complexities: Pussy Riot, Larissa Sansour, Nicoline van Harskamp and Adelita Husni-Bey. Each artist responds to a specific context and builds on a different branch of the speculative, from magic and witchcraft to feminist science fiction and Afrofuturism. The outcome, I argue, is a revitalised anarcha-feminist subjectivity that is critical and creative enough for the present. This is mapped through a suite of speculative figures that straddle fiction and activism—holy fools, witches, healers, terrorists, pirates, and time-travellers, to name a few. Drawing on political, geographical and feminist scholarship to analyse Pussy Riot, Sansour, van Harskamp and Husni-Bey, I locate their work in the fraught space between nationalism and neoliberalism. I argue that these practices reflect a growth of what I call shadow geographies: para-state formations that obfuscate state and corporate actors. They foreground the need for an anarcha-feminism that responds to this changing distribution of power. In contrast to tidy schemas that centralise masculine subjects, the method I develop by analysing these practices privileges mess, misrepresentation and mistranslation. This creates space for alternative subjects that subvert the hegemonic flow of space and time. The original contribution I am making opens a dialogue between anarcha-feminist subjectivities, contemporary art practices and the geographical complexities of the present. Further, I insist on speculative fiction as the motor that animates this subjectivity. Rather than offering escapist or apolitical fantasies, these artists do not eschew struggle or contradiction. In emphasising how their work is anchored in material, geopolitical realities, this contributes to a grounding of speculative fiction. Perhaps there are no clean or clear lines of exit from global capitalism but there is much to be gained from taking the speculative seriously.

Xiyin Tang (UCLA School of Law; Yale Law School) has posted Art After Warhol (UCLA Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Copyright laws, which generally prohibit copying, and contemporary art, which has increasingly come to rely on...

The essays, artistic pieces, and interviews gathered in this anthology explore both the role of art and visual culture as well as artistic practices in contemporary feminist movements. The art historians, literary scholars, artists, activists, and students and scholars of American Studies included in this collection examine contemporary art and artivism and its capacity to inspire change, reformulate feminist ideas, and reimagine feminist aesthetics. With contributions by young scholars, students, activists, and artists, the collection seeks to display a broad range of perspectives. Recurring themes are the ambivalent labeling of art and artistic or activist practices as 'feminist' as well as the role of intersectionality in feminism and art. This edited volume brings together the diverse strands of thought and practice that contemporary feminist art and culture embrace and hopes to contribute to ongoing discussions at the intersection of art and feminist politics. ; The essays, artistic pieces, and interviews gathered in this anthology explore both the role of art and visual culture as well as artistic practices in contemporary feminist movements. The art historians, literary scholars, artists, activists, and students and scholars of American Studies included in this collection examine contemporary art and artivism and its capacity to inspire change, reformulate feminist ideas, and reimagine feminist aesthetics. With contributions by young scholars, students, activists, and artists, the collection seeks to display a broad range of perspectives. Recurring themes are the ambivalent labeling of art and artistic or activist practices as 'feminist' as well as the role of intersectionality in feminism and art. This edited volume brings together the diverse strands of thought and practice that contemporary feminist art and culture embrace and hopes to contribute to ongoing discussions at the intersection of art and feminist politics.

"Experimental Beijing: gender and globalization in Chinese contemporary art." Journal of Gender Studies, 28(5), pp. 620–621

Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Discourses and interventions -- Postmigrant Europe: Discoveries beyond ethnic, national and colonial boundaries -- When do societies become postmigrant? A historical consideration based on the example of Switzerland -- Contested crises Migration regimes as an analytical perspective on today's societies -- "The cultural capital of postmigrants is enormous" Postmigration in theatre as label and lens -- A postmigrant contrapuntal reading of the refugee crisis and its discourse 'Foreigners out! Schlingensief's Container' -- Part II: Cultural representations -- Class, knowledge and belonging Narrating postmigrant possibilities -- Postmigrant remembering in mnemonic affective spaces Senthuran Varatharajah's Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen and Pooneh Rohi's Araben -- "I don't write about me, I write about you" Four major motifs in the Nordic postmigration literary trend -- Towards an aesthetics of migration The "Eastern turn" of German-language literature and the German cultural memory after 2015 -- Towards an aesthetics of postmigrant narratives Moving beyond the politics of territorial belonging in Ilija Trojanow's Nach der Flucht (2017) -- We Are Here Reflections on the production of a documentary film on the theatre in postmigrant Denmark -- Part III: Postmigrant spaces -- The square, the monument and the re-configurative power of art in postmigrant public spaces -- Recovering migrant spaces in Laurent Maffre's graphic novel Demain, Demain -- Zamakan: Towards a contrapuntal image -- "Tense encounters" How migrantised women design and reimagine urban everyday life -- Contemplating the coronavirus crisis through a postmigrant lens? From segregative refugee accommodations and camps to a vision of solidarity -- Contributors.

The concept of "postmigration" has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of "postmigration" and how it can be applied to arts and culture. While the concept has mainly gained traction in the cultural scene in Berlin, Germany, the contributions expand the field of study by attending to cultural expressions in literature, theatre, film, and art across various European societies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. By doing so, the contributions highlight this concept's potential and show how it can offer new perspectives on transformations caused by migration.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Introduction: What Is an Intervention? Metaphilosophical Critique and the Reinvention of Contemporary Theory -- Section I: History -- 1 How Do We Think the Present? From Ontology of Contemporary Reality to Ontology without Being -- 2 The Right of Philosophy and the Facts of History: Foucault, Derrida, Descartes -- 3 Aesthetic Revolution and Modern Democracy: Rancière's Historiography -- Section II: Politics -- 4 Is Difference a Value in Itself? Critique of a Metaphilosophical Axiology -- 5 Castoriadis and the Tradition of Radical Critique -- 6 The Hatred of Rancière: Democracy in the History of Political Cultures -- Section III: Aesthetics -- 7 The Art of Talking Past One Another: The Badiou-Rancière Debate -- 8 The Hermeneutics of Art and Political History in Rancière -- 9 The Forgotten Political Art Par Excellence? Architecture, Design and the Social Sculpting of the Body Politic -- Bibliography -- Index