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Coming together differently. (2023)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2023. Coming together differently. In Johanna Billing: each moment presents what happens. London: Whitechapel Gallery [online]. Available from: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Johanna-Billing_essay-by-Judith-Winter.pdf

In this essay, Judith Winter reflects on the origins and inspiration for Johanna Billing's work, "Each Moment Presents What Happens". The author looks back in particular towards John Cage's undocumented 1952 work, "Untitled Event (Theater Piece No. 1... Read More about Coming together differently..

European values. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZEĆO, M. 2023. European values. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1111, pages 57-60.

This chapter - a selection of quotes within variously decorated pages - forms Maja Zećo's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate respo... Read More about European values..

In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1110, pages 53-56.

This chapter - a short essay - forms Laura Leuzzi's chapter contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, scholars an... Read More about In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating..

Aphorisms on art and activism. (2023)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2023. Aphorisms on art and activism. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1100, pages 45-48.

This chapter - a compilation of aphorisms - forms Jon Blackwood's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, schol... Read More about Aphorisms on art and activism..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter] (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. In Laks, D. and Sassu Suarez Ferri, N. (eds.) Transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the XXth century. Passages online, 26. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University; arthistoricum.net [online], pages 39-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1148.c16188

The introduction of the portable video recorder enabled women artists of the 1970s to experiment with a medium that was considered easier and cheaper to operate than film, as well as free from the heavily male-dominated imprint of traditional artisti... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter].

Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. In Dreckmann, K. and Vomberg, E. (eds.) More than illustrated music: aesthetics of hybrid media between pop, art and video. New York: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 93-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501381263.0015

Since its commercial inception and availability in the late 60s and 70s, video has acted as a powerful tool for women artists to explore feminist issues and debunk stereotypes re-perpetrated over the centuries by patriarchal society. In resonance wit... Read More about Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video..

Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. (2022)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2022. Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. In Ingold, T. (ed.) Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 165-188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-008

This search is motivated by an abiding belief in the possibilities of art schools. It is a response to many conversations over recent years around the future of art education and the significant role it has played in weaving the social fabric. I cont... Read More about Searching for the ethos of a lost art school..

Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. (2022)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2022. Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. In Leuzzi, L., Partridge, S. and Shemilt, E. (eds.) Richard Demarco: the Italian connection. Barnet: John Libbey, chapter 7, pages 105-113.

During the Cold War period, relations between the UK and Yugoslavia were couched entirely in the frames of politics, economics or military history; in the later years of socialist Yugoslavia, from the later seventies onwards, links were also develope... Read More about Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s..

Making politics: engaged social tactics. (2022)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2022. Making politics: engaged social tactics. In burrough, x. and Walgren, J. (eds.) Art as social practice: technologies for change. New York: Routledge [online], chapter 10, pages 126-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169109-13

In this interview, Joseph DeLappe describes a lineage of works and circumstances that led to a series of community-based and crowdsourced projects to encourage participation and creative critical action with participants, volunteers, and collaborator... Read More about Making politics: engaged social tactics..

Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. (2021)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C. and DOUGLAS, A. 2021. Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. In Villanueva-Romero, D., Kerslake, L. and Flys-Junquera, C. (eds.) Imaginative ecologies: inspiring change through the humanities. Nature, culture and literature, 17. Netherlands: Brill [online], chapter 5, pages 81-106. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004501270_007

The approach we take to understanding, whether framed as 'measured, objective and in control' or 'entangled and adapting', is key to the health of the life web and ourselves. The problems associated with the measured, objective and in control version... Read More about Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison..

Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now? (2021)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2021. Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now? In The Roland Barthes Reading Group (eds.) Setting a bell ringing. The constellations, 17. London: MA Bibliothèque, pages 31-39.

I was moved to respond to the request to reflect on my experience of the Roland Barthes Reading Group partly because of the beautiful phrasing around ‘the situation of encounter'. I had joined this group as a visitor, intent only on dipping my toe in... Read More about Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now?.

Calendar variations. (2021)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2022. Calendar variations. In Geffen, A., Rosenthal, A., Fremantle, C. and Rhamani, A. (eds.) Ecoart in action: activities, case studies and provocations for classroom and community. New York: New Village Press [online], section 2, case study 4. Available from: https://nyupress.org/9781613321461/ecoart-in-action/

The Work of Allan Kaprow (1927-2006). Allan Kaprow was interested in blurring the boundaries between art and life on the premise that “Life is more artlike than art”. He drew artists and participants into noticing and exploring life's spontaneous mo... Read More about Calendar variations..

The Harrisons' practice in the context of global environmental policy and politics from the 1960s to 2019: a timeline. (2020)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C., DOUGLAS, A. and PRITCHARD, D. 2020. The Harrisons' practice in the context of global environmental policy and politics from the 1960s to 2019: a timeline. In Cartiere, C. and Tan, L. (eds.). The Routledge companion to art in the public realm. Abingdon: Routledge, chapter 28, pages 314-332. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450471-28

This chapter complements a previous chapter, 'In the time of art with policy' from the same book. The three authors, Fremantle, Douglas and Pritchard, offer different disciplinary perspectives to this analysis of global environmental policy and the... Read More about The Harrisons' practice in the context of global environmental policy and politics from the 1960s to 2019: a timeline..

In the time of art with policy: the practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison alongside global environmental policy since the 1970s. (2020)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C., DOUGLAS, A. and PRITCHARD, D. 2020. In the time of art with policy: the practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison alongside global environmental policy since the 1970s. In Cartiere, C. and Tan, L. (eds.). The Routledge companion to art in the public realm. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 27, pages 300-314. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429450471-27

From around 1970, the artists Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison (b. 1932), known as ‘the Harrisons,’ started to focus on ecology and ecological systems, influenced by amongst other things, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring which had be... Read More about In the time of art with policy: the practice of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison alongside global environmental policy since the 1970s..

Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan. (2020)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan. In Schorch, P., Saxer, M. and Elders, M. (eds.) Exploring materiality and connectivity in anthropology and beyond. London: UCL Press [online], pages 172-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357488

On 11 March 2011, a ‘triple disaster’ (an earthquake – the strongest since records began – a subsequent tsunami, and a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant) devastated the Tohoku region of north-east Japan. This singular yet predictable ev... Read More about Apocalyptic sublimes and the recalibration of distance: doing art-anthropology in post-disaster Japan..

An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia. (2020)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2020. An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia. In Steinbock, E., Leven, B. and de Valck, M. (eds.) Art and activism in the age of systemic crisis: aesthetic resilience. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 92-103. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429269189-7

This chapter traces the development of an “alloy” of artist and activist strategies in the context of North Macedonia, during Nikola Gruevski’s right-wing conservative government (2006-16) and its turbulent overthrow; the chapter concludes by assessi... Read More about An alloy made from art and activism, in North Macedonia..

Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. In Grau, O., Hoth, J. and Wandl-Vogt, E. (eds.) Digital art through the looking glass: new strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems [online], pages 161-177. Available from: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:a29638aa-f334-4abb-9601-10e36652d09f/Digital_Art_through_the_Looking_Glass_updated.pdf

This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 1970s and 1980s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial point of view. Since the ea... Read More about Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories..

Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. (2019)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2020. Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 115-132. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-7

The term 'curator' obviously encompasses a broad spectrum of practices. Like all disciplines the activity of curating is continually being redefined. This is a process that is pushed, challenged and accelerated in correspondence with artists and vari... Read More about Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space..

From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. (2019)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 8, pages 133-146. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-8

As lines between 'social practice' in art and social research blur, anthropologists are increasingly taking on curatorial roles in contemporary art settings and/or employing artistic methodologies in exhibition-making. This chapter explores some dyna... Read More about From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology..