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The unmaking of home in contemporary art / Claudette Lauzon.

By: Lauzon, Claudette, 1969- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Cultural spaces: Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781442649828 (hardback); 1442649828 (hardback).Subject(s): Home in art | Dwellings in art | Dwellings -- Social aspects | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives | Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 704.9496431
Contents:
An unhomely genealogy of contemporary art -- The art of longing and belonging -- Unhomely archives -- Biennial culture's reluctant nomads.
Summary: "In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that 'home' is a stable site of belonging. Lauzon's boundary-breaking discussion of artists including Krzysztof Wodiczko, Santiago Sierra, Doris Salcedo, and Yto Barrada posits that contemporary art offers a unique set of responses to questions of home and belonging in an increasingly unwelcoming world. From the legacies of Colombia's 'dirty war' to migrant North African workers crossing the Mediterranean, The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art bears witness to the suffering of others whose overriding notion of home reveals the universality of human vulnerability and the limits of empathy." - Inside cover.
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In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.


Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that 'home' is a stable site of belonging. Lauzon's boundary-breaking discussion of artists including Krzysztof Wodiczko, Sanitago Sierra, Doris Salcedo, and Yto Barrada posits that contemporary art offers a unique set of responses to questions of home and belonging in an increasingly unwelcoming world. From the legacies of Colombia's 'dirty war' to migrant North African workers crossing the Mediterranean, The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art bears witness to the suffering of others whose overriding notion of home reveals the universality of human vulnerability and the limits of empathy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An unhomely genealogy of contemporary art -- The art of longing and belonging -- Unhomely archives -- Biennial culture's reluctant nomads.

"In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma. Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks upon a transnational analysis of contemporary artists who challenge the assumption that 'home' is a stable site of belonging. Lauzon's boundary-breaking discussion of artists including Krzysztof Wodiczko, Santiago Sierra, Doris Salcedo, and Yto Barrada posits that contemporary art offers a unique set of responses to questions of home and belonging in an increasingly unwelcoming world. From the legacies of Colombia's 'dirty war' to migrant North African workers crossing the Mediterranean, The Unmaking of Home in Contemporary Art bears witness to the suffering of others whose overriding notion of home reveals the universality of human vulnerability and the limits of empathy." - Inside cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Illustrations (p. vi)
  • Acknowledgments (p. viii)
  • Introduction: Unmaking Home (p. 3)
  • 1 An Unhomely Genealogy of Contemporary Art (p. 26)
  • 2 The Art of Longing and Belonging (p. 69)
  • 3 Unhomely Archives (p. 104)
  • 4 Biennial Culture's Reluctant Nomads (p. 137)
  • Notes (p. 177)
  • Index (p. 209)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Released in the "Cultural Spaces" series, this book focuses on contemporary artists who use the notion of home, both figuratively and literally, as a symbol of trauma rather than comfort. Though Lauzon (Simon Fraser Univ.) nods to some art dating to the 1970s--for example, work by Gordon Matta-Clark and Doris Salcedo--most of the artwork she includes is from the last 15 years. The author notes a paradigm shift at this time of the artistic use of the concept of home. In the book's four chapters the author deals with such contemporary subjects as immigration, homelessness, political violence, and asylum seeking. The artwork is imbued with nostalgia and melancholia. Interwoven into the discussion is the current fascination with "biennial culture" as a nomadic vehicle for artists to exhibit. The artists represent a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, photography, performance, and installation, illustrated with 44 black-and-white photographs. The writing is dense, but the 31 pages of notes assist in sorting through these various themes. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --Anna Calluori Holcombe, University of Florida

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Claudette Lauzonis an assistant professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.