Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture Making and Being Made

Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural citizenships from the late 1970s to today. Contributors to this book examine an assortment of visual media—painting, sculpture, photography, performance, the built environment, new media, and social practice—within diverse and international communities, such as the United States, South Africa, Turkey, and New Zealand. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to, citizenship in terms of: nation building, civic practices, border zones, transnationalism, statelessness, and affects of belonging as well as alternate forms of, or resistance to, citizenship.

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors Chapter 1. Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: An Introduction Corey Dzenko and Theresa Avila Chapter 2. A Bid for Direct Representation: Creative Participation in Franco Vaccari’s Photomatic d’Italia Martina Tanga Chapter 3. Chinese in America: Flo Oy Wong, Suturing Gaps in the Weave Melanie Herzog Chapter 4. Rethinking Nationalist, Ethno-racist, and Gendered Myths: An Art Historical Take on Minoritarian Variations from Turkey Eser Selen Chapter 5. Potentials of Exchange, Fellowship, and Love: Contemporary Art, Citizenship, and Performance in South Africa Raél Jero Salley Chapter 6. Toward an Artistic Insurgency in India: Post-National Impulses in Contemporary Art John Xaviers Chapter 7. The Visibility of Media Citizenship and the Invisibility in Mikhail Sebastian’s Samoan Vacation Emily Sue Kofoed Chapter 8. This is Your America: Vincent Valdez’s The Strangest Fruit Andrea Lepage Chapter 9. Temporary Use: Exploring the Links Between Volunteering and Citizenship Sally Carlton and Suzanne Vallance Chapter 10. Activism and Citizenship: Performing Memory and Acts of Memorialization in Austria Karen Frostig Chapter 11. Sounding Citizenship: An Ongoing Discussion on Art, Affect, and Belonging Gabrielle Moser with Bambitchell (Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell) Chapter 12. Radical Listening: Art and Citizenship in the Public Square—An Interview Sheryl Oring with Corey Dzenko

Corey Dzenko is Assistant Professor of Art History at Monmouth University. Theresa Avila is Assistant Professor of Art History at California State University, Channel Islands.