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| Title: | Wild Fire
: Art As Activism |
| Author: | Deborah Barndt (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1894549554 : 9781894549554 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 175x230mm |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Weight: | .384 Kg. |
| Published: | Sumach Press - May 2006 |
| List Price: | 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | THE ARTS: GENERAL ISSUES |
This collection brings together activist academics who share a passion for art as well as politics, community and social change. Through their artistic work they challenge the notions of who is an artist and what is an activist, and explore the tensions between academic work and activism. Most importantly, their intention is to spark transformation and spread ideas of community building and social change. The contributors are graduates of the Masters in Environmental Studies program at York University in Toronto; from their research and academic experience they have created a wide variety of energetic and original artistic projects. Seventeen essays, each accompanied by black and white photographs, analyse the artistic processes as well as how the projects are brought into the wider community. The essays are grouped into four major themes: social empowerment and transformation, healing, activism and environmental awareness. The projects discussed include painting murals with youths at risk; producing theatre with new immigrants; creating art with immigrant women and children; storytelling and literacy; publishing immigrant women's stories and experiences; street performance as political resistance; and environmental installations. From storytelling, zine making, puppetry, phototherapy, culture jamming, adbusting, and the painting of murals to publishing and guerrilla theatre, each essay demonstrates that an academic artistic vision crosses many boundaries to inspire not only our imaginations but also social and environmental movements.
Playing with Wild Fire: Art as Activism; Seriously ... Are You Really an Artist?: Humour and Integrity in a Community Mural Project; Releasing Voices, Reclaiming Power: The Personal and Collective Potential of Voice; Whose Nicaragua?: Popular Communications across Eras, Regions and Generations; Ediciones Cordillera: An Exile Community's Role in Cultural Production; The Strawberry Tasted So Good: The Trickster Practices of Activist Art; Demechanising Our Politics: Street Performance and Making Change; Reconstructing Our Culture of Ilm (Knowledge): Muslim Women Represent Themselves; Jamming with Women's Rights Activists in East Asia: A Process of Critical Reflection; Mixing Metaphors: Risk in Art and Activism; Garden the City: Activism through Interventionist Art; Salmon Tales: Eco-Art Activism; Confessions of a Community Artist: A Letter to My Fellow Earthworkers; Tellingsmiths: The Work of Planting Trees and the Politics of Memory; Arts in Detention: Creating Connections with Immigrant Women Detainees; Language as Landscape: Navigating Post-Conflict Reconstruction with Bosnian Youth; Acts of Embodiment: Explorations in Collaborative Phototherapy; You Are My Sunshine: Refugee Participation in Performance.
