Book

Health / edited by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz.

Summary:

"Explores the ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art. In an era of fitness programs, increasing antidepressant usage, nutrition counseling and health-management apps, wellness is one of the defining issues of contemporary life, dictating every intimate aspect of our lives. Historically, art has been entwined with the values of medicine, beauty, and the productive body that have defined western scientific paradigms; contemporary artists are increasingly confronting and reshaping these ideologies, critically tackling illness and impairment in their practice while challenging ableist institutional dynamics. In this volume, artists, curators, writers, and thinkers engage with the ways the vulnerability of our bodies reveals structural aspects of our societies. At a moment at which epidemics and global warming menace all forms of life, we see clearly how health intersects with sexuality, ethnicity, gender, class, and coloniality. By reclaiming other realities, beyond a state of health as a norm, this book questions the myths, stigmas, and cultural attitudes that shape normative perceptions, revealing the interdependence of our entangled existences. The book includes four newly commissioned texts: by artists Mahmoud Khaled and Patrick Staff, by curator Clare Barlow on disability in the museum, and by curator Portia Malatjie on the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape. It also features two texts on the current COVID-19 pandemic, by Anne Boyer and Filipa Ramos."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262539463
ISBN: 0262539462
ISBN: 9780854882861
ISBN: 0854882863
Physical Description: 239 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; 2020.
Copyright: ©2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

VIRAL. The Rhetoric of AIDS, 1986 / Simon Watney and Sunil Gupta -- Activism, AIDS, Art, and the Institution, 2016 / Sur Rodney (Sur) -- Subversive Beauty: New Modes of Contestation, 1995 / bell hooks -- On Care, Activism, and HIV, 2017 / Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (ted) Kerr -- Global Fictions, Local Struggles, 2014 / Aimar Arriola and Nancy Garín -- Thanks for the Ad/d, 2020 / Mahmoud Khaled -- Viral Poems, 2019 / Pedro Neves Marques -- What the Virus Wants, 2020 / Filipa Ramos -- This Virus, 2020 / Anne Boyer -- THE INSTITUTION DENIED. Anti-Psychiatry, Critical Psychiatry, Movements and Working Utopias, 2015 / John Foot -- Radical Politics, Radical Psychiatry, Radical Art, 2010 / Dora García -- Knots, 1970 / R.D. Laing -- Undivided Attention: On the Art of Luke Fowler, 2012 / Martin Herbert -- Nine Tenets of the Sanatorium and Sanatorium Manifesto, 2015 / Pedro Reyes -- Free Peope's Medical Clinic, 2016 / Simone Leigh -- XOXO Insanity, Institution, 2011 / Mary Walling Blackburn -- NARRATING ILLNESS. Illness as metaphor / Susan Sontag -- The Picture of Health?, 1988 / Jo Spence -- A Dialogue on Love, 1999 / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- medusozoa, neuropathic pain, 2017 / Khairani Barokka -- Script for Weed Killer, 2020 / Patrick Staff and Catherine Lord -- Lucy Beech: Pharmakon, 2016 / Naomi Pearce and Alice Hattrick -- When the Sick Rule the World, 2015 / Dodie Bellamy -- SELF CARING. Epilogue, 1988 / Audre Lorde -- Five Year Diary, 2014 / Anne Charlotte Robertson -- What is Collectivity, Conviviality, Care?, 2017 / Park McArthur -- Sick Woman Theory, 2016 / Johanna Hedva -- In Conversation with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz and Pablo Lafuente, 2018 / Mujeres Creando -- Antinomies of Self-Care, 2017 / Sarah Sharma, Lynx Sainte-Marie and Lauren Fournier -- Thinking with Care, 2017 / Maria Puig de la Bellacasa -- ON CRIPPING. Stones in my Pocket, Stones in my Heart, 2009 / Eli Clare -- Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice, 2019 / Carolyn Lazard -- Canaries Manifesto, 2017 / Canaries and Taraneh Fazeli -- On Cripping, 2018 / Sara Jaspan -- Whose Body? Disability in the Museum, 2020 / Clare Barlow -- Creative Corrective Cacophonous Comical: Closed Captions, 2019 / Emily Watlington -- Queer Corpses: Grupo Chaclacayo and the Image of Death, 2013 / Miguel A. López -- Lorenza Böttner: Requiem for the Norm, 2019 / Paul B. Preciado -- DECOLONIAL HEALING. Life and Death in the Context of Biopolitical Domination, 2014 / Peter Pál Pelbart -- A Man Called Love: Reading Xavier, 2010 / Tamar Guimarães -- Molecular Colonialism, 2017 / Margarida Mendes -- Crossroads, 2018 / Catalina Lozano -- Incalculable Lives: Oreet Ashery's Revisiting Genesis, 2019 / Rizvana Bradley -- Ritual, Song and Spirituality as Radical Healing Praxes in the Work of Dineo Seshee Bopape, 2020 / Portia Malatjie -- Technologies of Enchantment, 2019 / Patricia Domínguez -- Decolonial Healing: In Defence of Spiritual Technologies, 2019 / Tabita Rezaire.