Art as Political Witness

Abstract

The panel invites proposals that characterise the praxis of witnessing political phenomena through art. The events witnessed might be fragments from the past, different images of history, or connected to the contemporary political world. For instance, the spectacles of horror or violence are often witnessed in the way that remains only as part of individual, personal memory. The potential sphere of politics opened up by artistic testimony is thus a move towards new ways to understand political discourses. This may be an alternate view to a nationalist discourse, witnessing different art of state interventions, or representing conflicts in the public or private spheres (including gender issues) in the means of poetry, film or photography.

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