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Sarah Peters: Tempests & Utopians

The March 2014 issue of Cultural Politics is now live online and in print. This issue features artwork by the Brooklyn artist Sarah Peters on its cover and inside, as well as her essay Tempests and Utopians.

Sarah Peters received her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been awarded multiple residencies, notably at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts; the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in New York City; the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington; and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Kohler, Wisconsin. Peters is a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture.

Read Tempests and Utopians here

Table of Contents, March 2014, Vol.10, no.1

More about Sarah Peters at http://sarahpetersart.com

Cultural Politics is published three times a year in March, July and November by Duke University Press. It's first seven volumes (March 2005 - November 2011) were published by Berg (Oxford, UK).

Artists Projects and essays freely available at Duke University Press.

Archive of Artists' Projects at http://culturalpolitics.org

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Cultural Politics: The Indian Biennale Effect

Cover image: Scenes from the Passion: Late, 2002 (Detail) by George Shaw. Humbrol enamel on board 91 x 121 cm Tate Collection. Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Foundation, 2003. Copyright the Artist. Courtesy Wilkinson Gallery, London. (From: Cultural Politics 9.3 Special Section on Affective Landscapes)

Announcing the publication of the November 2013 of Cultural Politics with a Special Section on Affective Landscapes.

Table of Contents, Volume 9, Number 3, November 2013

Read The Indian Biennale Effect by Robert E. D'Souza, offered open access, courtesy of Duke University Press:

The Indian Biennale Effect

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012

By Robert E. D'Souza

Abstract

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the most recent global art biennale, was launched in Kochi in the state of Kerala, India, in 2012. This essay considers the “biennale effect,” locating it within India's recent history of radical political modernization and in the context of the state's attempts to establish itself in terms of internationalism and contemporaneity via the arts. Pivotal to this discussion of the biennale effect is the recognition of a growing critical discourse about the biennale format by scholars, critics, and curators. The impact of the Indian biennale on the formerly Communist city of Kochi is also explored, including photographic documentation by the author, in the context of the contradictions and paradoxes raised by India's hosting of this global art event.

Read full {full-color) piece online or download the PDF (B&W).

Robert E. D'Souza is an artist, designer, and Head of School of Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. His multidisciplinary practice encompasses a research agenda that lies in the cross-cultural interactions and overlapping areas of visual art, cultural study, and social science. His most recent publication Outside India: Dialogues and Documents of Art and Social Change (2012) considers artworks from his exhibition Outside India at W+K Exp Gallery in Delhi against a recent history of social and economic change in India, both in terms of the forces of globalization and its effects on culture and in relation to the contemporary Indian art scene prior to the launch of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

An ARCHIVE of artist contributions can be accessed at CulturalPolitics.org

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Cultural Politics Special Issue: Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance

Cover image: Leon Phillips, Expand 5, 2012. Watercolor on watercolor paper, 15 × 20.5 inches (unframed). Private Collection of Donald Larventz, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Announcing the publication of a Special Issue of Cultural Politics:

Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance
Volume 9, Number 2, July 2013 Special Issue Editors: Peter W. Milne, with Heidi Bickis, Rob Shields, and Kent Still.

The artiwork on the cover of this issue is from a painting by Vancouver-based artist Leon Phillips, who contributed the essay, Lyotard's Dance of Paint.

Leon Phillips is a Canadian painter who was born in the small town of Spalding, Saskatchewan. Raised on a farm, his early experiences were shaped by the sublime expanse of the prairie landscape. He majored in studio art at the University of Saskatchewan, which he attended on scholarship and from which he graduated with distinction. He holds an additional degree in architecture from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. His final project in architecture was included in an exhibition on suburban planning and design at the Mississauga City Hall (Ontario). Phillips was the youngest artist to be given a solo exhibition at the Canadian Consulate in Chicago. His work has been exhibited across Canada and the United States and is included in numerous private and public collections in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Phillips lives and works in Vancouver, where he continues his exploration of color and gesture and issues of perception related to memory and loss.

For more info about the artists of Cultural Politics see: http://culturalpolitics.org

Rewriting Lyotard: Full Contents

Cultural Politics an International Journal

Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance

Volume 9, Number 2, July 2013

Introduction

Exceeding the Given: Rewriting Lyotard's Aesthetics

Peter W. Milne

Cultural Politics (2013) 9(2): 107-116;

Argumentation and Presentation

Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis

Jean-François Lyotard