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- Title
Choreographies of Binding and Unbinding: On the Drawings of Andrea Bowers.
- Authors
Ellul, Hannah
- Abstract
Andrea Bowers's drawings elaborate a piecemeal, meticulously drawn iconography of protest. Photographs and documents of emancipatory political struggle from different periods and places are reworked by hand, in something approaching an act of salvage. In light of the long and complex histories of art's engagement with the political, and the many and various modes of reciprocity devised along the way, what does it mean to be preoccupied with images of political action? To ask as much is to begin to address the complex ways in which such images intersect with and shape processes of political identification and affiliation, and the desire for political agency. Moreover, it is to speculate upon how renewed efforts of political imagination are informed by the often-obscure histories of collective action. What attachments or detachment are played out in these drawings? What choreographies of binding and unbinding are traced in these lines?
- Subjects
BOWERS, Andrea; 20TH century drawing; DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior) in art; PUBLIC demonstrations; REVOLUTIONS in art; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
PUBLIC, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 55, p47
- ISSN
0845-4450
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/public.28.55.47_1