Art, visual culture, activism Obsah obrázku kresba, skica, osoba, Umělecký tisk Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • • • • • • • • •Goya, Disastres of War 1810-20 • • Obsah obrázku obraz, kresba, osoba, Výtvarné umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Obsah obrázku obraz, umění, osoba, oblečení Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Study for The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Aims of critical and activist art •Create visibility •Create awareness •Create change • •Persuade •Change attitude •Move to action • Obsah obrázku text, kniha, staré Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku obraz, kresba, skica, umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • • • • • • • • • •Käthe Kollwitz • Obsah obrázku obraz, skica, kresba, Kresby Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku obraz, oblečení, mytologie, kresba Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • • • • • • • •Diego Rivera, Uprising 1931 Modern art as a means of protest…. Obsah obrázku text, několik Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku exteriér, staré, černá, bílá Popis byl vytvořen automaticky and raising public awareness Obsah obrázku text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Leon Golub, Vietnam 1973 > Obsah obrázku obraz, umění, kresba, Výtvarné umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky •Interrogation II 1981 Obsah obrázku text, skica, obraz, kresba Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Activist art vs critical art •Art activists do not want to merely criticize the art system or the general political and social conditions under which this system functions. Rather, they want to change these conditions by means of art—not so much inside the art system but outside it, in reality itself. Obsah obrázku oblečení, černobílá, kabát, osoba Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, plakát, umění, obraz Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, plakát, strom, venku Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, boty, oblečení, plakát Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, plakát, grafický design, Písmo Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, plakát, Leták, kniha Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, plakát, grafický design, kniha Popis byl vytvořen automaticky A few examples…. Obsah obrázku text, zeď, interiér, krabice Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, oblečení, osoba, černobílá Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Hans Haacke “MoMA Poll” 1970 visitors of New York’s Museum of Modern Art were asked whether or not they would support Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose family remains one of MoMA’s major donors. Guerilla Girls (since 1985) •Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?. • • •According to their survey, only five percent of the artists in the Modern Art sections of the museum are female, but 85 percent of the nudes depict women. Obsah obrázku text, muž, oblečení, zeď Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Obsah obrázku text, interiér, plakát, podlaha Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, venku, rukopis, obloha Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Banksy Obsah obrázku text, kresba, obraz, Pouliční umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, graffiti, Pouliční umění, rukopis Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Visual culture and actvisim Street activism Obsah obrázku text, graffiti, kámen Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, obraz, kresba, Pouliční umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, budova, obraz, nástěnná malba Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, exteriér Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Obsah obrázku špinavé, několik, dok Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Mexican artist Roberto Marquez paints a work inspired by Picasso’s “Guernica” on a Ukrainian bridge destroyed in Irpin, near Kyiv, on April 26, 2022 Obsah obrázku text, osoba Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • What about art? • • Obsah obrázku interiér, budova, kurt, kolonáda Popis byl vytvořen automaticky 12th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art 2022 Obsah obrázku text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky •They create counter-trajectories to the colonial narrative, and propose decolonial strategies for the future. How can a decolonial ekology be shaped? What role can non-Western feminist movements play in the reappropriation of history? …. David Chavalarias •History is a constant state of flux channeled by social groups and their leaders. As a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research CNRS in Paris, I try to understand the groups we form, how they evolve, how we shape them, and how in turn they shape us. This approach is rooted in my astonishment over the extreme nature of certain social events, such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which a significant portion of the population engaged in brutal violence against fellow citizens. •From Brexit in 2016 to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., the accession to power of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil (2018), and Viktor Orbàn in Hungary (2010), we have witnessed in recent years a gradual weakening of democratic institutions accompanied by the rise of populism and fascist thinking. Through an interdisciplinary approach that is both scientific and intuitive, Shifting Collectives (2022) allows us to perceive the invisible social and cognitive structures that shape our identities and collective action by providing us with the necessary reflexivity to understand this ongoing social decohesion. Obsah obrázku objekt v exteriéru, hvězda Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • David Chavalarias, Shifting Collectives 2022 Obsah obrázku text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Obsah obrázku text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, tabule, displej Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Forensic architecture, Reconstruction of Russian attack on Kiev TV tower, 2022 • •Our investigations employ cutting-edge techniques in spatial and architectural analysis, open source investigation, digital modelling, and immersive technologies, as well as documentary research, situated interviews, and academic collaboration. Findings from our investigations have been presented in national and international courtrooms, parliamentary inquiries, and exhibitions at some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and in international media, as well as in citizen’s tribunals and community assemblies. • Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society, from grassroots activists, to legal teams, to international NGOs and media organisations, to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. Obsah obrázku text, interiér, patro, strop Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • Video Tate Documenta 15 Obsah obrázku oblečení, boty, muž, umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • • • • • • •Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture, The Rituals of Things, 2022 Obsah obrázku text, interiér, galerie, výstava Popis byl vytvořen automaticky My thesis: •Work of art, which was not made with political or activist agenda can have a greater potential to engage the viewer in reflecting on contemporary events and problems. • Serving good cause or exploiting suffering of others? Case study: The plight of refugees • • http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/10/01/blogs/20151001pod-slide-NB2P/20151001pod-slide-NB2P-super Jumbo.jpg Filip Singer, Lesbos 2015 http://www.thenational.ae/storyimage/AB/20151003/GALLERY/151009752/AR/0/&MaxW=960&imageVersion=defa ult&AR-151009752.jpg • • • C:\Users\Lada\Desktop\NUDZ\UPR\refugees\CRCusFYUYAAeXIy.jpg Reflection in popular visual culture • • http://ste.india.com/sites/default/files/hbk.jpg Artists around the world paid tribute to Kurdi in September 2015. This mural, appeared in Brazil. murat sayin Obsah obrázku venku, obloha, voda, cestovat Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku budova, venku, obloha, text Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Ai Weiwei, Soleil Levant, 2017 Activism or exploitation? • http://photocraftavl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/David-Beard_Ai-Weiwei.jpg http://media2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories/2016February/weiwei1_020516032715.jpg http://ste.india.com/sites/default/files/hbk.jpg Ai Weiwei Obsah obrázku interiér, kolonáda Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku dav Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku obloha, exteriér Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Venice bienale 2019 Christopher Büchel, Barca nostra Obsah obrázku obloha, voda, loďka, exteriér Popis byl vytvořen automaticky •a monument to contemporary migration" and a symbol of human tragedy that brings our collective responsibility into focus. • •It is a very important project, that boat is the symbol both of the human tragedy and of the political crisis that the migrant flow is causing to all of Europe", Giovanni Angileri, chief of staff of the Sicilian cultural heritage department, told CNN.[4 •Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations’ refugee agency visited the boat and said: “I feel this cannot be considered a relic of the past. Today, a new shipwreck is telling us that that boat is our present. • •Is it? BARCA NOSTRA surely is more than just a shipwreck; rather, it is a signifier of our reality, a relic of a human tragedy, as well as a monument to migration narrating the contemporary status of freedom of movement on a global scale. It is an indicator of collective responsibility and the horridness of nationalist discourses and current policies of the majority of European societies today. Obsah obrázku obloha, osoba, exteriér, doprava Popis byl vytvořen automaticky •Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak, noted that: “There's been a lot of fake news spread about on Twitter about the [migrant] boat at the Venice Biennale. It is not true to say that it has no context and ignores death. The context is spelled out clearly in the catalogue. I found it dark, upsetting, accusatory and powerful….to suggest that the piece somehow glorified or ignored death is, at best, plain wrong.” • Obsah obrázku exteriér Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • •Nauseous. This image keeps haunting me. It shows the cynical and ruthless logic of sensational exhibitions where politically correctness and marketing strategy govern upon ethics, research and sensitivity. How one could have thought for a second it was a good Idea to bring this boat (800 persons died in it in 2015) to the Venice biennale? Turning it into a western fetish and a selfie spot……. The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art Editorial •Barca Nostra is certainly provocative. What is less clear is whether it is stimulating much that is productive for those who have lost their lives on the Mediterranean – and for those who will attempt to follow them over the treacherous seas. •It is precisely this kind of contextualisation that Barca Nostra lacks. Mr Büchel has objected even to the placing of information boards near the vessel. There is no programme of discussions or debates (for example), no immediate connection with those directly affected by the migrant crisis. Mr Büchel seems to intend Barca Nostra to stand as a nakedly distressing, disturbing intervention. •Here, as with all of of his previous projects, public response—including press articles, critical essays, and social media posts—is integral to the overall concept. Büchel’s work comprises process and unmediated interactions. Therefore, it has always been his position with BARCA NOSTRA that physical signage and explanatory text at the Arsenale would disrupt the process by which questions are raised, assumptions are made, intentions are projected onto the project, and a meaningful debate ensues. •Again, the fishing vessel is not the artwork; instead, the ongoing project and its journey are the artwork. • • Obsah obrázku oblečení Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku zeď, interiér, galerie, místnost Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku exteriér, země, strom Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Courtyard Tales 2017-18 „blankets are closest thing to your body….you feel the body even not seeing the body“ Berlinde De Bruyckere Obsah obrázku dezert Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku interiér, skála Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Anderlecht 2018 Contemporary (art?) activism once more Obsah obrázku text, snímek obrazovky Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku text, venku, budova, obloha Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku galerie, zeď, interiér, Galerie umění Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Obsah obrázku zeď, oblečení, interiér, osoba Popis byl vytvořen automaticky Why overtly political and activist art often (mostly?) fails • 1)Hypocrisy of art world: • (the art world’s deep interdependence with the sectors of society benefiting most from the crises caused by capital—from the debt-induced deterioration of labor, the elimination of the middle class, and the global commerce of war to the fracking of our natural environment—has become obvious, a scandalous fact. ) • • •2) Many works with political or social-activist agenda in reality trivialize complex problems, and in some cases parasite on suffering of other people • • • • • 3)Such works often miss their targets • • • 4) Visual art is not the ideal platform for communication and discussion of difficult and pressing global problems. • •What’s wrong with today’s “protest art”—which occupies so much of our public space? Mainly this: it’s long on protest and virtually devoid of art. Obsah obrázku obloha, venku, socha, strom Popis byl vytvořen automaticky • • •Works of art can raise public awareness, motivate and mobilize •individuals and groups for to do morally good things. • •But they can do so only through their potential to offer an exceptional visual, cognitive and affective experiences. •If they are not capable of providing such experiences, they remain only a piece of propaganda or superficial comment, less effective than other forms of public discourse. Obsah obrázku obraz, kresba, kreslené, ilustrace Popis byl vytvořen automaticky My questions: •Can art really help in addressing major problems of this world, such as climate crisis, wars, inequality etc? •Is art activism making any difference, or is it largely tactics to make oneself visible within the contemporary art world? •Have you encountered any contemporary artist/work of art, which you found effective as a tool of social change or activism? etc. •