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Media type:
Book
Title:
Risk work
:
making art and guerrilla tactics in punitive America, 1967-1987
Contains:
Introduction: Punitive Literacy and Risk Work -- Hit-and-Run Aesthetics: Asco, Chris Burden, and Relational Geographies of Risk, 1971-1976 -- Deputized Discernment: Adrian Piper, Jean Toche, and the Politics of Antiloitering Laws, 1974-1978 -- Rethinking Endurance: Pope.L, Tehching Hsieh, and Surviving Safety, 1978-1983 -- "Why Won't You See Us?": The Guerrilla Girls, PESTS, and the Limits of Anonymity, 1985-1987 -- Epilogue: At the Edges of Guerrilla.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"Holding a TV talk show host hostage. Staging a faux scene of gang war violence. Loitering. Surviving outdoors for a year. Crawling. Wheat-pasting posters. Occupying a traffic island. These actions served as the basis of experimental artworks, often described as "guerrilla," that were staged for unsuspecting audiences in the US during the 1970s and 1980s--a period when politicians and law enforcement framed anticolonial interventions and urban rebellions waged by "guerrilla fighters" as national security threats, and lawmakers expanded policing budgets while deepening the consequences of anti-riot, anti-loitering, and anti-poverty laws. Focusing on instances of arrest or near-arrest in performance and conceptual art by artists Chris Burden, Adrian Piper, Tehching Hsieh, Pope.L, and Jean Toche, and art groups, the Guerrilla Girls, Asco, and PESTS, Gleisser challenges long-standing misconceptions surrounding guerrilla art in American society. Rather than romanticize artists' individual agency, or treat police presence as a given, Gleisser argues that artists' tactical work exposes the racialized, sexualized, and gendered politics of risk-taking mired in the country's punitive turn. Drawing on art history, Black studies, performance studies, and prison studies, Gleisser provides close analyses of art staged in charged urban sites, revealing how artists' "risk work" negotiates differing vulnerabilities to state-sanctioned violence, and exposes the complex relationship between policing, state power, and contemporary art"--Provided by publisher