ePub Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Andrew Hewitt in Arts-Photography

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In this landmark collection; world-renowned theorists; artists; critics; and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity; including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents; as well as important questions about temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not broad categories and terms such as modernity; postmodernity; globalization; and decolonization are still relevant or useful. Including twenty essays and seventy-seven images; Antinomies of Art and Culture is a wide-ranging yet incisive inquiry into how to understand; describe; and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment.In the volumersquo;s introduction the theorist Terry Smith argues that predictions that postmodernity would emerge as a global successor to modernity have not materialized as anticipated. Smith suggests that the various situations of decolonized Africa; post-Soviet Europe; contemporary China; the conflicted Middle East; and an uncertain United States might be better characterized in terms of their ldquo;contemporaneity;rdquo; a concept which captures the frictions of the present while denying the inevitability of all currently competing universalisms. Essays range from Antonio Negrirsquo;s analysis of contemporaneity in light of the concept of multitude to Okwui Enwezorrsquo;s argument that the entire world is now in a postcolonial constellation; and from Rosalind Kraussrsquo;s defense of artistic modernism to Jonathan Hayrsquo;s characterization of contemporary developments in terms of doubled and even para-modernities. The volumersquo;s centerpiece is a sequence of photographs from Zoe Leonardrsquo;s Analogue project. Depicting used clothing; both as it is bundled for shipment in Brooklyn and as it is displayed for sale on the streets of Uganda; the sequence is part of a striking visual record of new cultural forms and economies emerging as others are left behind.Contributors: Monica Amor; Nancy Condee; Okwui Enwezor; Boris Groys; Jonathan Hay; Wu Hung; Geeta Kapur; Rosalind Krauss; Bruno Latour; Zoe Leonard; Lev Manovich; James Meyer; Gao Minglu; Helen Molesworth; Antonio Negri; Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie; Nikos Papastergiadis; Colin Richards; Suely Rolnik; Terry Smith; McKenzie Wark