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[2]Art as a Political Witness
[3]Kia Lindroos
Frank Möller (eds.)
Art as a Political Witness
Barbara Budrich Publishers
Opladen • Berlin • Toronto 2017
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[5]List of Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
Contributors
Preface
| Plate section | |
| 1. | Kia Lindroos and Frank Möller |
| Witnessing in Contemporary Art and Politics | |
| 2. | Louie Palu |
| Image Control in the Age of Terror | |
| 3. | Dana Mills |
| The Body Remembers: Dance, Discourses of Citizenship, Phenomenology and Memory | |
| 4. | Kia Lindroos |
| Chris Marker as Cinematic Witness | |
| 5. | Sally Butler and Roland Bleiker |
| Embodied Witnessing: Indigenous Performance Art as Political Dissent | |
| 6. | Cynthia E. Milton |
| Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America | |
| 7. | Bruno Lefort |
| Achrafiyeh Invaded – The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of the Lebanese Factionalism | |
| 8. | Tommi Kotonen |
| Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/11 | |
| 9. | Suvi Alt |
| Bearing Witness and Playing in Ruins: On the Onto-Poetics of Abandoned Places | |
| [6]10. | Susanna Hast |
| Children Witnessing War: Emotions Embodied in the Theatre Play Wij/Zij | |
| 11. | Frank Möller |
| The Violence of Witnessing |
[7]List of Figures
Fig. 2.1 Louie Palu, Screen capture still photograph from video made by the Taliban in Kandahar, Afghanistan as it appears in Louie Palu’s documentary “Kandahar Journals” (76 minutes 2015). 2015 Photo © Louie Palu
Fig. 2.2 Louie Palu, Screen capture still photograph from video made by ISIS of the murder of American Journalist James Foley in 2014.
Fig. 2.3 Louie Palu, “Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of Military Police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during in-processing to the temporary detention facility on Jan. 11, 2002.” DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st class Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy.
Fig. 5.1 Dave Hullfish Bailey and Sam Watson, Maiwar Performance 2014 (stills); video, colour, sound, edition of 5. Duration 0:12:00, looped. Courtesy David Pestorious Projects, Brisbane, Australia.
Fig. 5.2 Dave Hullfish Bailey and Sam Watson, Maiwar Performance 2014 (stills); video, colour, sound, edition of 5. Duration 0:12:00, looped. Courtesy David Pestorious Projects, Brisbane, Australia.
Fig. 5.3 Richard Bell, Uz vs Them 2006; single-channel digital video, edition 2/5. Duration 0:2:20. Collection of The University of Queensland, Gift of Richard Bell through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2009. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
Fig. 6.1 Behind the Shadow of the Pain (Tras la sombra del dolor) by Luis Cuba Arango (Pampamarca, Vinchos). Reprinted with permission from Servicio Educativos Rurales, Colectivo Yuyarisun (2004), Rescate por la memoria. Ayacucho: Colectivo Yuyarisun, Ministerio Británico para el Desarrollo International, Organización Holandesa para la Cooperación International al Desarrollo, p. 17.
[8]Fig. 6.2 Edilberto Jiménez Quispe, Llaqta Maqta (A Dance). Reprinted with artist’s permission from Chungui: Violenciay trazos de memoria. Lima: Comisdeh (2005), p. 71.
Fig. 6.3 Edilberto Jiménez Quispe, The Senderistas Sacked Yerbabuena (Yerbabuena, Chungui, May 12, 1984). Reprinted with artist’s permission from Chungui: Violenciay trazos de memoria. Lima: Comisdeh, p. 73.
Fig. 6.4 Edilberto Jiménez Quispe, When Sendero Arrived (Chungui,
