With Reverend Billy, Rashida Bumbray, Taja Cheek, Savitri D, Noah Fischer, Florian Malzacher, and Gregory Sholette. Moderated by Nato Thompson.
The many political and economic crises occurring around the world have brought increased focus to the relationship between art and politics. Over the past few years, artists have been active at protests in Tahrir Square in Egypt, Syntagma Square in Athens, Zuccotti Park in New York, the Maidan in Kiev and in Japan following the Fukushima disaster.
In Truth is Concrete: A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics, Florian Malzacher presents 99 strategies that explore the role the arts can play in fomenting political change. The Goethe-Institut New York and Creative Time Reports, a media initiative from the New York public art organization Creative Time, have invited politically engaged artists and activists across generations to discuss some of these strategies and to examine how the relationship between art and politics has changed in recent years, particularly in light of the Occupy Wall Street and BlackLivesMatter movements.
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