{"product_id":"art-for-coexistence-isbn-9780262047395","title":"Art for Coexistence","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of how contemporary art reframes and humanizes migration, calling for coexistence—the recognition of the interdependence of beings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArt for Coexistence\u003c\/i\u003e, art historian Christine Ross examines contemporary art’s response to migration, showing that art invites us to abandon our preconceptions about the current “crisis”—to unlearn them—and to see migration more critically, more disobediently. We (viewers in Europe and North America) must come to see migration in terms of coexistence: the interdependence of beings. The artworks explored by Ross reveal, contest, rethink, delink, and relink more reciprocally the interdependencies shaping migration today—connecting citizens-on-the-move from some of the poorest countries and acknowledged citizens of some of the wealthiest countries and democracies worldwide. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese installations, videos, virtual reality works, webcasts, sculptures, graffiti, paintings, photographs, and a rescue boat, by artists including Banksy, Ai Weiwei, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Laura Waddington, Tania Bruguera, and others, demonstrate art’s power to mediate experiences of migration. Ross argues that art invents a set of interconnected calls for more mutual forms of coexistence: to historicize, to become responsible, to empathize, and to story-tell. Art history, Ross tells us, must discard the legacy of imperialist museology—which dissocializes, dehistoricizes, and depoliticizes art. It must reinvent itself, engaging with political philosophy, postcolonial, decolonial, Black, and Indigenous studies, and critical refugee and migrant studies.\u003cbr\u003e Preface (vii)\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction (1)\u003cbr\u003eI History Matters\u003cbr\u003e1 The Endangering, Hampering, and Criminalization of Migration (23)\u003cbr\u003e2 Affective Proximities: As Opposites have Conversations (47)\u003cbr\u003eII Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e3 Searching for Responsibility (79)\u003cbr\u003e4 Forensics (109)\u003cbr\u003e5 Care (127)\u003cbr\u003eIII Empathy? \u003cbr\u003e6 The Fundamental Ambivalence of Empathy (161)\u003cbr\u003e7 The Pharmakon Aesthetics of Empathy (177)\u003cbr\u003eIV Storytell\/ing\u003cbr\u003e8 Why Storytell\/ing? (235)\u003cbr\u003e9 Deep Listening (255)\u003cbr\u003e10 Weird Stories about Hospitality (281)\u003cbr\u003eConclusion (315)\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments (319) \u003cbr\u003eNotes (321)\u003cbr\u003eBibliography (365)\u003cbr\u003eIndex (387)“At this time of divisive differentiation, how might contemporary artists contribute to the creation of the coeval community that the world so urgently needs? Christine Ross boldly takes up this question at its sharpest point: the worldwide “migration crisis” in which coexistence is cruelly denied and acutely felt. Key works by Banksy, Isaac Julien, John Akomfrah, Tanya Bruguera, Olu Oguibe, Forensic Oceanography, Ai Weiwei, Kader Attia, Candice Breitz, Stan Douglas, Kent Monkman, and several others are convincingly read as exemplary demonstrations of what it is to “unlearn colonization,” as potent calls for empathy, and as modeling aspects of a more mutual coexistence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh; Professor in the Division of Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought, European Graduate School; and author of \u003ci\u003eArt to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“With an emphasis on coexistence, varying worldviews, and art-as-a-call-to-listen, Christine Ross addresses one of the greatest emergencies of our time: migration, our concepts about which must be “unlearned.” Ross’s extraordinary analyses are vitally important to understand if we are to move forward productively.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at Pompeu Fabra University and author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Only Art Can Save Us\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeing at Large\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An invaluable and compelling conceptual road map to art and migration theories. Ross displays an appreciable finesse in her analysis of the rationales behind forced displacement and she manages to avoid the empathetic vulnerability trope often associated with migrants to revisit migration experiences via the lens of art. A rare and necessary approach.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marie Ruiz, Associate Professor, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Migration: Revisioning  the Borders of Community\u003c\/i\u003e with Bénédicte Miyamoto\u003c\/b\u003eChristine Ross is Distinguished James McGill Professor in Contemporary Art History at McGill University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Past Is the Present; It’s the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304966541541,"sku":"NP9780262047395","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047395.jpg?v=1767721800","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/art-for-coexistence-isbn-9780262047395","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}