Cultural production opens avenues for new ways of thinking. But how can withdrawal and boycott be productive or conducive to politically oriented artistic practices? This event poses an alternative view: to consider boycott and withdrawal as special conditions for discourse and artmaking. It addresses timely questions of the agency of artists in the social and political sphere, and how culture can enact and perform change within a politics of disengagement.
Participants:
- Ariella Azoulay, Department of Modern Culture and Media; Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University
- Adi Ophir, Professor, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, The Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the Middle East Studies Program, Brown University
- Jack Persekian, Director and Head Curator, Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine
- Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research
New York City, NY; NYC