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Title: |
Urgent Moments |
| Sub-title: |
Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020 |
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| Edited by: |
Mark Amery, Sophie Jerram, Amber Clausner |
| ISBN10-13: |
1991016468 : 9781991016461 |
| Illustrations: |
150
colour images
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| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
250x200xmm |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Weight: |
1.220 Kg. |
| Published: |
Massey University Press - October 2023 |
| List Price: |
50.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 13 |
| Subjects: |
Performance art : Political activism |
| After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist system and the climate emergency, it brokered spaces for artists to think and act radically, outside gallery walls. This book chronicles the projects those artists drove. From a grocery store where everything was free to an ATM for depositing moods and a citizensâ water-testing lab, they added to the civic dialogue at a time when public space and media were increasingly commodified and under surveillance. Written by leading New Zealand writers and thinkers, including Pip Adam and Chris Kraus, Urgent Moments demonstrates the vital role artists can play in the pressing discussions of our times. |
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