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West Side Story’s true lost author was Peter Gennaro, who choreographed “America” and all of the Sharks’ steps in the “Dance at the Gym.” Jerome Robbins, apparently foreseeing how long the show’s art would prove, made Gennaro sign a contract including the line “You hereby assign to me any and all rights in, and to any and all choreographic material
... See moreEthan Mordden • On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide
Bishop does claim that relational art can have strong political power, and can produce democratic relations, but for her this happens when it cultivates situations that are not socially benign and consensual, like those Bourriaud tends to focus on and potentially to celebrate. For Bishop, democracy is enacted through art practices that cultivate so
... See moreJen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
Cultural production is ever more finely attuned to attention, which is ever more pervasively measured and monetized. Commerce and culture are locked in an ever-tighter embrace.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
culture
Center for Media Justice, Coding Rights (Brazil), the Critical Making Lab, Data Active, Decolonising Design, the Design Studio for Social Intervention, Design Trust for Public Space, the Digital Justice Lab (Toronto), FemTechNet, Intelligent Mischief (Brooklyn), MIT CoLab, SEED Network, Social Justice Design Studio, and the Tech Equity Collective,
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
‘thus creates, within its method of production and then at the moment of its exhibition, a momentary grouping of participating viewers’ (p. 58).
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
Firstly, Social Justice approaches re-inscribe negative stereotypes against women and racial and sexual minorities by the kind of Theories it develops.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
feminism
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