Devouring Brazilian Modernism: The Rise of Contemporary Indigenous Art
Contemporary indigenous art rescues a series of ethical values that can help the world to overcome the civilizational crisis, and help Brazil to overcome political and environmental setbacks.
Interview – Lydia Cole
Lydia Cole reflects on her fieldwork, affective failure and misrecognition, as well as her research using conflict textiles, encouraging the use of visual art and poetry in research.
Interview – Eliza Garnsey
Eliza Garnsey explains the role art can play in transitional justice, how art can be a form of political participation, and the meaning of ‘visual jurisprudence’.
Sensible Politics: Expanding from Visual IR to Multisensory Politics
Sensible Politics aims to decenter our understanding of international politics by expanding to include the visual and the multisensory, and expanding from Eurocentric investigations of visual IR.
Interview – Laurence Payot
Artist Laurence Payot talks about her projects gathering stories from refugees and displaced people across the UK, identity, and the ways art can influence politics.
Interview – George Butler
Reportage artist, George Butler, talks to us about his work drawing the news in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, as well the future for young Syrians and his Hands Up Foundation.
Interview – Edmund Clark
Award-winning artist Edmund Clark discusses his work on state practices associated with the war on terror such as torture and extraordinary rendition and visual politics.
Interview – Lewis Bush
Lewis Bush talks about the utilisation of visual art to comment on global issues such as Brexit, the European debt crisis, Trump and state practices of espionage.
Visualising the Drone: War Art as Embodied Resistance
War art belongs to an aesthetics that is derived from practical and real-world encounters, and which sets to apprehend the world via sense-based and affective processes.
The Power of Images in Global Politics
Images surround everything we do. This omnipresence of images is political and has changed fundamentally how we live and interact in today’s world.
