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Aeffect: The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism

English

By (author): Stephen Duncombe

The first book to seriously identify how artistic activism works and how to make it work better
The past decade has seen an explosion in the hybrid practice of artistic activism, as artists have turned toward activism to make their work more socially impactful and activists have adopted techniques and perspectives from the arts to make their interventions more creative. Yet questions haunt the practice: Does artistic activism work aesthetically? Does it work politically? And what does working even mean when one combines art and activism? In Æffect, author Stephen Duncombe sets out to address these questions at the heart of the field of artistic activism.
Written by the co-founder and current Research Director of the internationally recognized Center for Artistic Activism, Æffect draws on Duncombes more than twenty-five years of experience in the field and one hundred in-depth interviews with artistic activists worldwide. More than a mere academic exercise, the theory, research, and tools in this book lay the groundwork for artistic activists to evaluate and strengthen their practice and to create better projects. The exploration of good artistic activism is grounded in three sets of concerns. 1) Change: Upon what theories of change is artistic activism based? 2) Intention: What do we hope and expect artistic activism to do, and how does it do this? 3) Evaluation: What actually happens as the result of an artistic activist intervention? Can it be measured?
Æffect is rich with examples that demonstrate successful artistic activism, including Undocubus, an old bus painted No Fear across its side that was driven cross-country by a group of undocumented immigrant activists; Journal Rappé, a video show created by Senegalese rappers who created long-form investigative reports by rapping the current news in French and Wolof; and War on Smog, a staged a public performance piece by artistic activists in the city of Chongqing in Southwest China. Scannable QR codes are included to provide tools that help readers assess the æffect of their artistic activism.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 522g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781531506506

About Stephen Duncombe

Stephen Duncombe is Professor of Media and Culture at New York University and author and editor of nine books and numerous articles on the intersection of culture and politics. These include Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (New Press 2007; O/R Books 2019) the Cultural Resistance Reader (Verso 2002) and with Steve Lambert The Art of Activism (O/R Books 2021). He is the creator of the Open Utopia an open-access open-source web-based edition of Thomas Mores Utopia and co-creator of Actipedia.org a user-generated digital database of artistic activism case studies. A life-long activist Duncombe is the co-founder and Research Director of the Center for Artistic Activism a research and training organization that helps activists create more like artists and artists strategize more like activists.

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