COME CLOSER: The Biennale Reader

COME CLOSER: The Biennale Reader
ISBN-10
3956795709
ISBN-13
9783956795701
Series
Come Closer
Category
Art
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2021-02-02
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Vít Havránek, Tereza Stejskalova

Description

A reader on issues of race, class, and gender in post-Socialist states from an artworld perspective. Come Closer: The Biennale Reader, published on the occasion of the inaugural Prague biennale, considers the present via counter-hegemonic readings of the past. The book explores various perspectives of class, race, and gender differences in post-socialist states, past and present. In societies today that can seem fragmented, alienated, and sealed-off, a feeling of "us" and "them" can potentially emerge. The reliance on a common language to bring people closer often does the opposite, leading to feelings of contempt, anxiety, and fear. By drawing attention to themes of intimacy, care, and empathy, the contributions in this book search for new types of communication that can bring people together. Like language, art can be used to mediate these differences, and to examine issues relating to how people coexist in society. Come Closer comprises republished texts as well as newly commissioned contributions from both emerging and established artists, social and political scientists, and art historians from Eastern Europe, Asia, and the United States. Contributors Jérôme Bazin, Heather Berg, Pavel Berky, Anna Dau&číková, Patrick D. Flores, Isabela Grosseová, Vít Havránek, Marie Ilja&šenko, Rado I&štok, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Eva Ko&ťátková, Kate&řina Li&šková, Ewa Majewska, Tuan Mami, Alice Nikitinová, Alma Lily Rayner, Sarah Sharma, Jirka Skála, Adéla Souralová, Edita Stejskalová, Tereza Stejskalová, Mat&ěj Spurný, Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Simone Wille

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