Age of rebellion art12/31/2023 ![]() Etcétera parodied political theatres-both the spectacles of human rights “truth commissions” and of democratic “electoral pageantry”-through an alternative “materialist theatre” in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Augusto Boal that, rather than pacifying its audience with the balm of representation, incites social action (199). This signage not only bypassed the state’s rights-based monopoly on justice through community action it also culture-jammed the state’s monopoly on visually “impos meanings on public spaces and organiz movement.” In doing so, GAC connected a critique of violence under dictatorship with the everyday violence of state-organized class warfare. GAC evolved the grassroots practice of escraches, which used street signs to publicly shame and harass perpetrators of human rights abuses. The book turns to the activities of Etcétera and Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC) in Buenos Aires in chapters 3 and 4, focusing on different forms of guerrilla urban signage and street theater in the 1990s and early 2000s. Bracho, Ponce de León shows how its queer heightening of somatic and olfactory senses undermines gentrification’s visual logics of zoning and beautification. In a particularly compelling reading of the text of one plaque, a eulogy for the gay bar The Score written by Ricardo A. In the process, it provided a “stereoscopic aesthetics” that enabled players (who interacted both in real-world and virtual space) to “ together in a single field of vision the materiality of colonial practices and their systemic disavowal” (36).Ĭhapter 2 attends to the counter-monuments created by the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History (PRS), founded by Sandra de la Loza, including the historical plaques erected from 2002–2008 throughout Los Angeles to call attention to Chicanx histories erased by ongoing gentrification and progress narratives, not just displaced “mom and pop” businesses but also queer cruising grounds and other marginalized sex public spaces. ![]() Chapter 1 focuses on the alternate reality game Raiders of the Lost Crown (2013), organized by the Diego de la Vega Cooperative Media Conglomerate and its CEO, Fran Ilich, with the premise of recapturing an Aztec headdress from a museum in Vienna. In four chapters after a theoretical introduction, Ponce de León combines formal readings of aesthetic practices with journalistic coverage and interviews of artists and collaborators. Jennifer Ponce de León’s Another Aesthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War takes on this project in her study of experimental, trans-disciplinary, and collaborative works of media production and interventions in urban space that advance anticapitalist and anticolonial movements in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States from the past twenty-five years. US List: $27.95.Īs global systems of racial capitalist violence entangle with the decimation of the humanities in the neoliberal university, we in cultural studies need to approach aesthetic practices not just as objects of analysis but as theoretical partners that actively bring into view a fuller account of the world and how to fashion a different one. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2021, 328 pp. They wear the same clothes, mothers and daughters, and which I thought is a drag because they can’t rebel.Another Aesthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War. So they couldn’t have been more different, whereas now they’re very similar. My mom was like a 1940s drag queen who’d wear a long-line girdle and nylons and never left the bedroom without hair all done and full makeup, and my sister was a full-on counterculture right-on sister. I mean when my sister and I-she’s also gay-when we left and went to college like there was such a chasm between us and our parents. They have fantastic relationships with their parents, there isn’t that weird schism. I think rebellion is sort of a bit of a lost art really because kids don’t have so much to rebel against. But then in your spare time, make sure that the rest of your time isn’t spent in the fetal position worrying about your future, that you’re actually out carousing and being silly and having fun and rebelling a little bit. ![]() But I think you can be organized and pursue the goal of getting a job, not even a good job, just a job.
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