We turn to artist Amar Kanwar’s video installation The Torn First Pages-referring to the Burmese bookshop owner who was imprisoned for tearing out pages with government propaganda in the books and journals he sold-and scholar and critic Erika Balsom’s essay on this work in Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book. Artist and researcher Sonia Boyce reconciles the aesthetic strategies of collage and montage with the political address to racism and nationalism in artworks by Rasheed Araeen and Eddie Chamber, included in The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain. From Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere, philosopher Oliver Marchart proposes an aesthetics of agitating, propagating, and organizing. Our series of shared excerpts continues with a fifth installment focusing on issues of democracy and protest.
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