Book launch: Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care
Friday 8th March, 16:00-18:00, Manchester Metropolitan University
Join us at 4pm on 8th March to celebrate the launch of the new book 'Art, Labour Text and Radical Care' by Dr Adam Walker
Book (free) here: https://t.co/uj8GF1xKX4
Book launch: Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care
Friday 8th March, 16:00-18:00
Geoffrey Manton, Manchester Metropolitan University
Join us at 4pm on 8th March to celebrate the launch of the new book 'Art, Labour Text and Radical Care' by Dr Adam Walker, published by Routledge.
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.
So this is finally coming out in early December.
Is anyone interested to write a review? Can send over an advance copy (physical or digital) if so. DM me if interested, and by all means share the invitation.
Cover image generously provided by Tai Shani
Here’s the blurb:
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.
growing determination of increasing parts of our world, and foregrounds art’s position amidst these. It also functions as an interface, both extending the fertile current discourse around care to a contemporary art focus,
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’
Chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating inequalities: through labour, the body, and onto-epistemology. Art’s all too frequent a-criticality, cooption, or even complicity amidst these lineages is observed