Catha Paquette, Karen Kleinfelder, Christopher Miles, Eds.
Description
In and Out of View represents a significant contribution to the literature on censorship. The twenty-two components of this anthology, which include essays, interviews, and statements by over forty contributors from diverse backgrounds and practices, focus on art production and reception from the mid-twentieth century to the present in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. At issue are not only governmental restrictions but also discursive effects, such as erasure and distortion resulting from institutional policies, interpretive methods, and canonical processes. Crucial considerations concerning death, violence, authoritarianism, colonialism, labor, global capitalism, immigration, race, religion, sexuality, social justice, activism, disability, campus speech, and cultural destruction are highlighted. The volume, which models an expansion in how censorship is discursively framed, invites consideration of the shifting contexts, values, and needs through which artwork moves in and out of view.
Table of Contents
PART I. DEADLY SERIOUS
1. Subjugated Knowledges, Revisionist Histories, and the Problem of Visibility: Carrie Mae Weems and Ken Gonzales-Day, Nizan Shaked (California State University Long Beach, USA)
2. Damage Control: Teresa Margolles, the Mexican Government, and the 2009 Venice Biennale Mexican Pavilion, Ana Garduño (National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico)
3. Death Matters, Kerstin Mey (University of Limerick, Ireland)
PART II. THE SEXUAL (IN)SIGHT
4. Art/Obscenity in West German Experimental Film, 1968-1972: Circulating through the Debates, Megan Hoetger (Performance and Media Historian and Curator, USA and Europe)
5. Impossible to Image: Art & Sexual Violence, 1975–1979, Angelique Szymanek (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA)
6. De-Shaming Shame, John Fleck (Actor and Performance Artist, USA) in Conversation with Kevin Duffy (Filmmaker and Actor, USA)
7. Only the Stupid Are Overt: Covert Censorship in the American Museum, Jonathan D. Katz (University of Pennyslvania, USA)
PART III. UNDER DELIBERATION: ARTFUL ACTIVISM
8. Tucumán Arde and the Changing Face of Censorship, Fabián Cereijido (Artist and Independent Scholar, USA)
9. The Discursive Roots of Censorship: Neoliberalism’s Rendering of Chican@ Art, Karen Mary Davalos (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA)
10. Tools and Obstacles, Daniel Joseph Martínez (University of California, Irvine, USA) and Carol A. Wells (Center for the Study of Political Graphics, USA) in Conversation with Nizan Shaked (California State University Long Beach, USA)
11. Remaining in Sight: Andrea Bowers’s Art Lessons from Activists, Peter R. Kalb (Brandeis University, USA)
PART IV. FRAMED: INSTITUTIONAL AND GOVERNMENTAL CONSTRAINTS
12. In and Out of Sites: Disability and Access in the Work of Park McArthur and Carmen Papalia, Elizabeth Guffey (State University of New York at Purchase, USA)
13. Culture, State, and Revolution: Arts Wars between Religious and Secular Autocracies in Post-Revolution Egypt, Sonali Pahwa (University of Minnesota, USA) and Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University, USA)
14. Knowing/Caring, Ai Weiwei (Artist, UK) and Alexandra Munroe in Conversation (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, USA)
PART V. CONTESTED OBJECTS: (RE)PRESENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE
15. Re-Indigenizing Native Space in a University Context, Craig Stone (California State University Long Beach, USA)
16. African Cultural Heritage: Erasure, Restitution and Digital Image Regimes, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
17. Censorship and Creative (Re)Production, Morehshin Allahyari (Artist and Activist, USA) in Conversation with Brittany Ransom (California State University Long Beach, USA)
PART VI. MATTERS OF RACE
18. Provocation and Valuation
Our Compliance, 2015, Ashley Powell (Artist, USA)
Black Judge Takes the Stand, 2016, Kara Walker (Artist, USA)
Reflections, 2019, Ashley Powell (Artist, USA)
19. Presentation/Representation: Creative Expression, Speech Rights, and Pedagogy, Jane Conoley (California State University Long Beach, USA), Maulana Karenga (California State University Long Beach, USA), Karen Kleinfelder (California State University Long Beach, USA), Cyrus Parker-Jeannette (Dancer/Choreographer, USA), Michele Roberge (Performing Arts Specialist, USA), Elena Roznovan (Artist, USA) and Cintia Alejandra Segovia (Photographer, USA), Griselda Suarez (Long Beach Arts Council, USA), Andrew Vaca (California State University Long Beach, USA), Jaye Austin Williams (Bucknell University, USA), Terri Yamada (California State University Long Beach, USA)
20. American Monument (25/2018): Students Respond
CSULB SOA Student Response to Dismissal of Kimberli Meyer, CSULB School of Art Concerned Students of Color and Allies (California State University Long Beach, USA)
American Monument: Remembering as a Form of Resistance, Andrea A. Guerrero (California State University Long Beach, USA)
Afterwords, Svetlana Mintcheva (National Coalition Against Censorship, USA) and Laura Raicovich (Independent Scholar, USA) in Conversation