gregory sholette

Queens College of the City University of New York, Art Studio, Faculty Member

Harvard University, Of The Design And The Public Domain Program At The Graduate School Of Design, Associate Faculty

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MORE ESSAYS ARE FOUND AT: http://www.gregorysholette.com/ & https://gregsholette.tumblr.com/ Dr. Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, teacher and activist. He is a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), as well as Co-Director with Professor Chloë Bass of Social Practice CUNY headquartered in the Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, and an associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Sholette holds a PhD in History and Memory Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017), he is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Critical Theory (1996), Graduate of University of California San Diego (1995), The Cooper Union School of Art (1979), and Bucks County Community College (AAS 1976). Sholette is the curator of Imaginary Archive: a peripatetic collection of documents speculating on a past whose future never arrived. His art and research theorize and document issues of collective cultural labor, activist art, and counter-historical representation. He is active with Gulf Labor Coalition and was a co-founder of the collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). His most recent publications include the books Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism (2017); Art As Social Action (with Chloë Bass: 2018); Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (2011) currently being translated into Portuguese and Spanish editions.
Supervisors: (PhD) dr. Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Address: 119 Payson Ave. #6F
New York, NY 10034 USA

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Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance: Artists, Gentrification and New York City's Lower East Side, 1979-1984

Afterimage, 1997

... that depicted an iconic cowboy on horseback with a bold caption that read &quot;Area Nati... more ... that depicted an iconic cowboy on horseback with a bold caption that read &quot;Area Natives ... of-the-century workers&#x27; organization known as the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies. ... Dion&#x27;s largely symbolic investigations, borrow from the little known history of left politics and ...

INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF ACTIVISM AND THE ACTIVISM OF ART

THE ART OF ACTIVISM AND THE ACTIVISM OF ART GREGORY SHOLETTE, 2022

* This is the introductory chapter to THE ART OF ACTIVISM AND THE ACTIVISM OF ART (Lund Humphries... more * This is the introductory chapter to THE ART OF ACTIVISM AND THE ACTIVISM OF ART (Lund Humphries, UK, 2022) *

Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gentrification, but also in opposition to their own exploitation. They have also absorbed and reflected forms of protest within their art practice itself. The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art maps, critiques, celebrates and historicises activist art, exploring its current urgency alongside the processes which have given rise to it. Gregory Sholette approaches his subject from the dual perspective of commentator (as scholar and writer) and insider (as activist artist), in order to propose that the narrowing gap separating forms of activist art from an aesthetics of protest is part of a broader paradigm shift constituted by the multiplying crises within contemporary capitalism and democratic governance across the globe.

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