Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care

This book explores how critical artistic practice can contribute to the materialization of more equal, collectively fulfilling possibilities of being by developing an ethical-methodological approach of 'radical care'. It traces interweaving lineages perpetuating inequalities through labor, the body, and onto-epistemology, and proposes radical care and disruptive arttext as an alternative framework. It contributes to the critical understanding of inequitable processes and highlights the role of arts in addressing these issues.

Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 05 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the potential of critical artistic practice to shape a more equitable, collectively fulfilling world by adopting an ethical-methodological approach known as "radical care." Through a series of interconnected chapters, it explores the perpetuation of inequalities across various domains, including labor, the body, and onto-epistemology. It observes the frequent a-criticality, cooption, or complicity of the arts in these lineages and develops radical care and disruptive arttext as alternative frameworks that challenge these dominant narratives. The book contributes to a critical understanding of inequitable, abstracting processes that are shaping our world and emphasizes the role of the arts in addressing these challenges. It serves as an interface, extending the discourse around care to a contemporary art focus while also exploring how radical art practices can contribute to a politics rooted in an ethics of care. This book will appeal to scholars working in art history, studio art, philosophy, and politics, offering valuable insights into the intersection of art, ethics, and social change.

Through developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care ,this book explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal,more collectively fulfilling,possibilities of being. The chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating inequalities: through labour,the body,and onto-epistemology. Arts all too frequent a-criticality,cooption,or even complicity amidst these lineages is observed,and radical care and the disruptive arttext are developed as twin aspects of an alternative,resistant framework. The book contributes to the critical understanding of inequitable,abstracting processes growing determination of increasing parts of our world,and foregrounds arts position amidst these. It also functions as an interface,both extending the fertile current discourse around care to a contemporary art focus,and at the same time exploring how radical art practices might contribute to a politics rooted in an ethics of care. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history,studio art,philosophy and politics.
This book delves into the potential of critical artistic practice to shape a more equitable, collectively fulfilling world by adopting an ethical-methodological approach known as "radical care." Through a series of interconnected chapters, it explores the perpetuation of inequalities across various domains, including labor, the body, and onto-epistemology. It observes the frequent a-criticality, cooption, or complicity of the arts in these lineages and develops radical care and disruptive arttext as alternative frameworks that challenge these dominant narratives. The book contributes to a critical understanding of inequitable, abstracting processes that are shaping our world and emphasizes the role of the arts in addressing these challenges. It serves as an interface, extending the discourse around care to a contemporary art focus while also exploring how radical art practices can contribute to a politics rooted in an ethics of care. This book will appeal to scholars working in art history, studio art, philosophy, and politics, offering valuable insights into the intersection of art, ethics, and social change.

Weight: 554g
Dimension: 179 x 253 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032370460