Betreff: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst announces release of We Roma: A
Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Datum: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:00:13 -0400
We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Edited by Daniel Baker and Maria Hlavajova
Published by *BAK*, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and *Valiz*, book
and cultural projects, Amsterdam
http://www.bak-utrecht.nl
We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, edited by Daniel Baker
(artist, curator, and researcher; London) and Maria Hlavajova (artistic
director of BAK, Utrecht), inquires into the contemporary moment through
the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering
knowledge from the Roma way of life. As the so-called West's
misconceptions of itself, inherited from the legacy of the modern, are
being unmasked through unprecedented shifts in politics, society,
aesthetics, and economics—what can we learn from the commonalities among
political struggles of historically marginalized communities such as
Roma and in what we know as majority society? With the emblematic claim
in the artistic imaginary "we Roma," with which we appeal to wider
society—how can we invoke the possibility of a different world and
alternative futures? Artists, theorists, writers, and activists—both
Roma and non-Roma—speculate on such questions and the possibility of art
to imagine the world otherwise.
(snip)
To order a copy of We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art/,
please send an e-mail to [email protected] or visit the website of
Valiz at http://www.valiz.nl
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