Full Description
This first-of-its-kind compendium unites perspectives from artists, scholars, arts educators, policymakers and activists to investigate the complex system of values surrounding artistic-educational endeavors. Addressing a range of artistic domains, ranging from music and dance, to visual arts and storytelling, contributors offer an exploration and criticism of the conventions that govern our interactions with these practices. Artistic Citizenship focuses the responsibilities, and functions of amateur as well as professional artists in society, and introduces a novel set of ethics that are conventionally dismissed in discourses on the topic. The authors address the questions: How does the concept of citizenship relate to the arts? What socio-cultural, political, and ethical "goods" can artistic engagements create for people worldwide? Do particular artistic endeavors have distinctive potentials for nurturing artistic citizenship? What are the most effective strategies in the arts to institute change and/or resist local, national, and world problems? What responsibilities do artists and consumers of art have in order to facilitate the relationship between the arts and citizenship? How can artistic activities contribute to the eradication of various 'ism's?
A substantial accompanying website features video clips of arts-in-action, videotaped interviews with scholars and practitioners in a variety of global sites, a blog, and supplementary resources about existing and emerging initiatives. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Artistic Citizenship is an essential text for artists, scholars, policy makers, educators, and students.
Contents
Contents
Contributors
PART I Foundational Considerations
1. Artistic Citizenship: Introduction, Aims, and Overview
by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Wayne Bowman
2. Art and Citizenship: The History of a Divorce
by David Wiles
3. New York Reimagined: Artists, Arts Organizations, and the Rebirth of a City
by Mary Schmidt Campbell
4. Artistry, Ethics, and Citizenship
by Wayne Bowman
5. Arts Education as/ for Artistic Citizenship
by Marissa Silverman and David J. Elliott
6. Art as a Bad Public Good
by Ana Vujanovi?
PART II Dance/ Movement- Based Arts
7. Movement Potentials and Civic Engagement: An Interview
with Liz Lerman
8. Dance It, Film It, Share It: Exploring Participatory Dances and Civic Potential
by Sangita Shresthova
9. Moving Comfortably Between Continuity and Disruption: Somatics and Urban Dance as Embodied Responses to Civic Responsibility
by Naomi M. Jackson
10. Re/ imagining Artivism
by Rodney Diverlus
PART III Media and Technology
11. Queer and Trans People of Color Community Arts Collective: Ste- Émilie Skillshare
by Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, and Coco Riot
12. Slow FAST Forward: Enacting Digital Art and Civic Opportunities
by Jennifer Parker
13. Tactical Citizenship: Straddling the Line Between Community and Contestation
by Eric Kluitenberg
14. Ghostly Testimonies: Re- enactment and Ethical Responsibility in Contemporary Israeli Documentary Cinema
by Raz Yosef and Yaara Ozery
PART IV Music
15. Music, Social Change, and Alternative Forms of Citizenship
by Thomas Turino
16. Citizens or Subjects? El Sistema in Critical Perspective
by Geoffrey Baker
17. Arts- Based Service Learning with Indigenous Communities: Engendering Artistic Citizenship
by Brydie- Leigh Bartleet and Gavin Carfoot
18. Alchemies of Sanctioned Value: Music, Networks, Law
by Martin Scherzinger
PART V Poetry/ Storytelling
19. The Points Are Not the Point, But Do They Still Matter? A Practitioner's Take on Spoken Word, Slam Poetry, and the Responsibility of Artists to Engage Their Audiences
by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre
20. Poet as Citizen in a Contested Nation: Rewriting the Poetry of Soviet- Occupied Afghanistan
by Aria Fani
21. Songs of Passage and Sacrifice: Gabriella Ghermandi's Stories in Performance
by Laura Dolp and Eveljn Ferraro
PART VI Theater
22. Applied Theater and Citizenship in the Puerto Rican Community: Artistic Citizenship in Practice
by David T. Montgomery
23. Performing Citizenship: Performance Art and Public Happiness
by Sibylle Peters
24. Valuing Performance: Purposes at Play in Participatory Theater Practice
by Nicola Shaughnessy
PART VII Visual Arts
25. A New Letter Named Square
by Coco Guzman
26. Working All the Time: Artistic Citizenship in the 21st Century
by Diane Mullin
27. Image as Ignorant Schoolmaster: A Lesson in Democratic Equality
by Tyson Lewis
Notes
Author Index
Subject Index
