Making Another World Possible 10 Creative Time Summits, 10 Global Issues, 100 Art Projects

Making Another World Possible offers a broad look at an array of socially engaged cultural practices that have become increasingly visible in the past decade, across diverse fields such as visual art, performance, theater, activism, architecture, urban planning, pedagogy, and ecology. Part I of the book introduces the reader to the field of socially engaged art and cultural practice, spanning the past ten years of dynamism and development. Part II presents a visually striking summary of key events from 1945 to the present, offering an expansive view of socially engaged art throughout history, and Part III offers an overview of the current state of the field, elucidating some of the key issues facing practitioners and communities. Finally, Part IV identifies ten global issues and, in turn, documents 100 key artistic projects from around the world to illustrate the various critical, aesthetic and political modes in which artists, cultural workers, and communities are responding to these issues from their specific local contexts. This is a much needed and timely archive that broadens and deepens the conversation on socially engaged art and culture. It includes commissioned essays from noted critics, practitioners, and theorists in the field, as well as key examples that allow insights into methodologies, contextualize the conditions of sites, and broaden the range of what constitutes an engaged culture. Of interest to a wide range of readers, from practitioners and scholars of performance to curators and historians, Making Another World Possible offers both breadth and depth, spanning history and individual works, to offer a unique insight into the field of socially engaged art.

Biographies List of contributors Acknowledgments PART I A precarious assembly: ten years of art and activism Nato Thompson PART II On arts, politics, and engagement: a selected timeline 1945 to present Chto Delat? with an introduction by Corina L. Apostol and Nato Thompson PART III Major issues in the field of socially engaged art Commoning art in Europe – on the play between art and politics Hanka Otte and Pascal Gielen Between art and culture: performing First Nations sovereignty Wanda Nanibush Trust or the works were limited Ala Younis Making Latin America tremble: feminist imagination against the pedagogy of cruelty Miguel A. Lopez "When I speak, I speak as a collective": black collectives and activism in contemporary South African art Athi Mongezeleli Joja Becoming: in search of the social artists, locating their environments, reorienting the planet Grace Samboh On socially engaged art in Thailand: a conversation Gridthiya Gaweewong, Thanom Chapakdee, and Thasnai Sethaseree Magically, new highways, stadiums, and police stations emerge What, How and for Whom/WHW PART IV Dialogue: 10 global issues, 100 art projects Section 1. State of siege Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee State of siege Justine Ludwig Projects TanzLaboratorium Regina Jose Galindo Khaled Hourani Amar Kanwar Conflict Kitchen Agung Kurniawan Mujeres Publicas 1 Pussy Riot Jonas Staal Lawrence Abu Hamdan Section 2. Surveillance Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee Demilitarizing the algorithm Mari Batashevski Projects Zach Blas James Bridle Metahaven Trevor Paglen Laura Poitras Hito Steyerl Hasan Elahi Jill Magid Paolo Cirio Xu Bing Section 3. Confronting inequity Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee Aphrodite Nuria Guell Projects Atis Rezistans Urban Reactor Alexandra Pirici Mika Rottenberg Ibrahim Mahama The Illuminator Oda Projesi Halil Altindere Yao Jui-chung Brigada Puerta de Tierra (BPDT) Section 4. The uprising Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee The Low End Theory: when they go high, we go low Rashida Bumbray Projects Nabil Al-Raee Lara Baladi Molly Crabapple Etcetera Victoria Lomasko Leonidas Martin/Enmedio Tomaš Rafa Oliver Ressler Daniel Tucker Joshua Wong—The Umbrella Movement Section 5. Exodus Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee Exodus Kinana Issa Projects Richard Bell Chen Chieh-Jen Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) The Fire Theory Postcommodity Khaled Jarrar Tings Chak Tanja Ostojic Slavs and Tatars Trampoline House Section 6. Cosmopolitics Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee Cosmopolitical struggles for a pluriversal planet Maja and Reuben Fowkes Projects Zuleikha Chaudhari Cannupa Hanska Luger Hope Ginsburg Huhana Smith Futurefarmers Lucy + Jorge Orta Nut Brother Benvenuto Chavajay Otobong Nkanga Pablo DeSoto Section 7. Race matters Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee After the fires, in the clay dust Syrus Marcus Ware Projects Melanie Cervantes Pope.L Otabenga Jones & Associates Maksaens Denis Simone Leigh Rena Radle and Vladan Jeremic Nastio Mosquito Marika Schmiedt Sethembile Msezane Kara Walker Section 8. Classroom in crisis Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee Classroom in crisis Jasmina Tumbas Projects Kunle Adeyemi Campus in Camps KUNCI Ahmet Ogut Pepon Osorio Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Yanelys Nunez Leyva Dan Perjovschi and Lia Perjovschi Journal Rappe Marinella Senatore Stiev Selapak Section 9. Queer and now Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee For the We/Dispossession is the I A.L. Steiner Projects Fredman Barahona Giuseppe Campuzano Cassils Evan Ifekoya Yevgeniy Fiks Krudas Cubensi Carlos Motta Bhenji Ra Sharon Hayes CUDS Section 10. The device Project descriptions by Corina L. Apostol, Corinne Butta, and Shimrit Lee Is it working? Tega Brain Projects Karolina Sobecka Molleindustria Lauren McCarthy Josh Begley Li Liao Rabih Mroue Mary Maggic Morehshin Allahyari Jenny Odell Joanna Moll PART V Epilogue Justine Ludwige PART VI Glossary of terms Corina L. Apostol Index

Corina L. Apostol is the curator of Tallinn Art Hall and previously served as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Creative Time. She is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks and editor in chief of the ArtLeaks Gazette. Her recent publications include the book Theories and Methodologies of Art History: A Guide (2016), as well as numerous essays for volumes, textbooks, and catalogues. Nato Thompson is the Sueyun and Gene Locks Artistic Director at Philadelphia Contemporary. He served as the curator of the Creative Time Summit from 2009 to 2017 and has written two books of cultural criticism: Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (2017). He has also edited Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011, Experimental Geography, Ahistoric Occasion, Becoming Animal, and The Interventionists.