ART / Art & Politics

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This article examines how selected contemporary artworks and exhibitionary practices stage sleep under 24/7 capitalism. It uses sleep not only physiologically, but also through sleep-adjacent practices such as rest, napping, exhaustion, withdrawal, and horizontality. Grounded primarily in the sociology of sleep and affect theory, the article argues that sleep becomes a social and political terrain where guilt, anxie…

Reference · Wikidata

creative works that concern or are produced by activists and social movements

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Protest art is the creative works produced by activists and social movements. It is a traditional means of communication, utilized by a cross section of collectives and the state to inform and persuade citizens. Protest art helps arouse base emotions in their audiences, and in return may increase the climate of tension and create new opportunities to dissent. Since art, unlike other forms of dissent, takes few finan…

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

In an era of climate change, extractivist economies, and forced mobility, who and what belongs? Throughout her prolific career, Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves has focused precisely on this question. Perhaps her most iconic, generative, and expansive work is Seeds of Change, a twenty-year investigation into the hidden history of ballast flora—displaced plant seeds found in the soil used to balance shipping vess…

Full text · Open Library

**Organon der rationellen Heilkunde** (Dresden 1810). Spätere, jeweils vermehrte und veränderte Auflagen unter dem Titel: **[Organon der Heilkunst][1]**. [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL13116389W/Organon_der_Heilkunst

Image · DPLA