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3 produkter
3 produkter
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 094 kr
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Explores closeness as a minoritarian method in contemporary art and performance.On Closeness explores closeness as a transformative, if sometimes fraught, mode of engagement across aesthetic, social, and scholarly realms. Olivia Michiko Gagnon theorizes closeness as a minoritarian method that refuses knowledge grounded in possession or mastery in favor of relational ethics defined by vulnerability, partiality, and unknowing. Insisting upon the political urgencies of remaining in close proximity across difference, these forms of relation—with history and archives, artworks and others—privilege embodied and sensuous ways of knowing and remembering that salve historical violence. Analyzing contemporary artworks and performances by Tanya Tagaq, asinnajaq, Cheryl Sim, Elizabeth M. Webb, Pia Arke, and Monika Kin Gagnon—her mother and an influential cultural critic and scholar—Gagnon engages entangled histories of colonialism, slavery, migration, and diaspora. Grounded in performance studies and in dialogue with gender and sexuality studies, critical Indigenous studies, Black studies, American studies, critical mixed race studies, Asian Canadian studies, and film and media studies, On Closeness stages an antiracist, decolonial, and feminist intervention. Adopting closeness as her own method, Gagnon shows how the concept opens up new possibilities for relation across difference, historical sense-making, and knowledge production within and beyond the university.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
301 kr
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Explores closeness as a minoritarian method in contemporary art and performance.On Closeness explores closeness as a transformative, if sometimes fraught, mode of engagement across aesthetic, social, and scholarly realms. Olivia Michiko Gagnon theorizes closeness as a minoritarian method that refuses knowledge grounded in possession or mastery in favor of relational ethics defined by vulnerability, partiality, and unknowing. Insisting upon the political urgencies of remaining in close proximity across difference, these forms of relation—with history and archives, artworks and others – privilege embodied and sensuous ways of knowing and remembering that salve historical violence. Analyzing contemporary artworks and performances by Tanya Tagaq, asinnajaq, Cheryl Sim, Elizabeth M. Webb, Pia Arke, and Monika Kin Gagnon – her mother and an influential cultural critic and scholar – Gagnon engages entangled histories of colonialism, slavery, migration, and diaspora. Grounded in performance studies and in dialogue with gender and sexuality studies, critical Indigenous studies, Black studies, American studies, critical mixed-race studies, Asian-Canadian studies, and film and media studies, On Closeness stages an anti-racist, decolonial, and feminist intervention. Adopting closeness as her own method, Gagnon shows how the concept opens up new possibilities for relation across difference, historical sense-making, and knowledge production within and beyond the university.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
381 kr
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Known for her expansive multidisciplinary approach to art making Vancouver-based Dana Claxton, who is Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), has investigated notions of Indigenous identity, beauty, gender and the body, as well as broader social and political issues through a practice which encompasses photography, film, video and performance. Rooted in contemporary art strategies, her practice critiques the representations of Indigenous people that circulate in art, literature and popular culture in general. In doing so, Claxton regularly combines Lakota traditions with “Western” influences, using a powerful and emotive “mix, meld and mash” approach to address the oppressive legacies of colonialism and to articulate Indigenous world views, histories and spirituality. This timely catalogue will be the first monograph to examine the full breadth and scope of Claxton’s practice. It will be extensively illustrated and will include essays by Claxton’s colleague Jaleh Mansoor, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia; Monika Kin Gagnon, Professor in the Communications Department at Concordia University, who has followed Claxton’s work for 25 years; Olivia Michiko Gagnon, a New York–based scholar and doctoral student in Performance Studies; and Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery.