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-including music, dance, theater, visual arts, film, and poetry-contributors explore and critique the conventions that govern our interactions with these practices. Artistic Citizenship focuses on the social responsibilities and functions of amateur and professional artists and examines ethical issues that are conventionally dismissed in discourses on these topics. The questions this book addresses include: How does the concept of citizenship relate to the arts? What sociocultural, political, environmental, and gendered "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 obligations do artists and consumers of art have to facilitate relationships between the arts and citizenship? How can artistic activities contribute to the eradication of adverse 'ism's?A substantial accompanying website features video clips of "artivism" in action, videotaped interviews with scholars and practitioners working in a variety of spaces and places, a blog, and supplementary resources about existing and emerging initiatives. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Artistic Citizenship is an essential text for artists, scholars, policymakers, educators, and students.
Table of Contents
ContentsContributorsPART I Foundational Considerations1. Artistic Citizenship: Introduction, Aims, and Overviewby David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Wayne Bowman2. Art and Citizenship: The History of a Divorceby David Wiles3. New York Reimagined: Artists, Arts Organizations, and the Rebirth of a Cityby Mary Schmidt Campbell4. Artistry, Ethics, and Citizenshipby Wayne Bowman5. Arts Education as/ for Artistic Citizenshipby Marissa Silverman and David J. Elliott6. Art as a Bad Public Goodby Ana Vujanovi?PART II Dance/ Movement- Based Arts7. Movement Potentials and Civic Engagement: An Interviewwith Liz Lerman8. Dance It, Film It, Share It: Exploring Participatory Dances and Civic Potentialby Sangita Shresthova9. Moving Comfortably Between Continuity and Disruption: Somatics and Urban Dance as Embodied Responses to Civic Responsibilityby Naomi M. Jackson10. Re/ imagining Artivismby Rodney DiverlusPART III Media and Technology11. Queer and Trans People of Color Community Arts Collective: Ste- Émilie Skillshareby Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, and Coco Riot12. Slow FAST Forward: Enacting Digital Art and Civic Opportunitiesby Jennifer Parker13. Tactical Citizenship: Straddling the Line Between Community and Contestationby Eric Kluitenberg14. Ghostly Testimonies: Re- enactment and Ethical Responsibility in Contemporary Israeli Documentary Cinemaby Raz Yosef and Yaara OzeryPART IV Music15. Music, Social Change, and Alternative Forms of Citizenshipby Thomas Turino16. Citizens or Subjects? El Sistema in Critical Perspectiveby Geoffrey Baker17. Arts- Based Service Learning with Indigenous Communities: Engendering Artistic Citizenshipby Brydie- Leigh Bartleet and Gavin Carfoot18. Alchemies of Sanctioned Value: Music, Networks, Lawby Martin ScherzingerPART V Poetry/ Storytelling19. 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 Audiencesby Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre20. Poet as Citizen in a Contested Nation: Rewriting the Poetry of Soviet- Occupied Afghanistanby Aria Fani21. Songs of Passage and Sacrifice: Gabriella Ghermandi's Stories in Performanceby Laura Dolp and Eveljn FerraroPART VI Theater22. Applied Theater and Citizenship in the Puerto Rican Community: Artistic Citizenship in Practiceby David T. Montgomery23. Performing Citizenship: Performance Art and Public Happinessby Sibylle Peters24. Valuing Performance: Purposes at Play in Participatory Theater Practiceby Nicola ShaughnessyPART VII Visual Arts25. A New Letter Named Squareby Coco Guzman26. Working All the Time: Artistic Citizenship in the 21st Centuryby Diane Mullin27. Image as Ignorant Schoolmaster: A Lesson in Democratic Equalityby Tyson LewisNotesAuthor IndexSubject Index
