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dc.contributor.authorPeterson, Abby
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-04T10:57:00Z
dc.date.available2020-02-04T10:57:00Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationPeterson, A. (2019). Ai Weiwei and JR. Political Artists and Activist Artists and the Plight of Refugees. Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge-JMK, 4(2), 183-202. DOI: 10.26409/2019JMK4.2.12it_IT
dc.identifier.issn2499-930Xit_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.mediterraneanknowledge.org/publications/index.php/journal/issue/archiveit_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/4120
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26409/2019JMK4.2.12
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-2329
dc.description.abstractThe article will address Ai Weiwei’s and JR’s political engagement with the refugee crisis, the former as a political artist and the latter as an activist artist. Ai, in a series of conceptual installations and the feature film Human Flow, as did JR at Tecate on the Mexican-US border, have sought to shed light on the securitization of migration and the hollowness of neoliberalism’s human rights discourse. More generally, the article will interrogate the roles of the socially concerned political artist and the socially involved activist artist. An underlying question deals with the power of representation inevitably wielded by artists. While the ‘dilemma of representation’ cannot be resolved, the article explores the different approaches to this dilemma employed by Ai and JR to mitigate the dilemma.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 183-202it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectActivist artistit_IT
dc.subjectDilemma of representationit_IT
dc.subjectMovement artist scholarsit_IT
dc.subjectPolitical artistit_IT
dc.subjectRefugee crisisit_IT
dc.titleAi Weiwei and JR. Political Artists and Activist Artists and the Plight of Refugeesit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
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