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A Post-Soviet Experiment Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Joanna Matuszak
This article revisits the politics of naming and investigates the origins of the term ‘Moscow Actionism’. Why was the term introduced in curatorial literature published around 1995 in Western Europ...
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27
Published in Third Text (Vol. 38, No. 1-2, 2024)
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Differential Dispossession and the White Indigenous Counter-Reformation Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Elizabeth Povinelli, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll in Conversation
A history of inheritance in the thinking of Karrabing Film Collective, from Belyuen, the small Indigenous community in Australia. Speaking across from Oceania to Alps, to Central Europe via Austral...
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A Surreal Relation with Otherness in Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Azadeh Sarjoughian
Since her early photographic series Women of Allah (1993−1997), the Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat has been either praised for her alternative representations of veiled Muslim women or criti...
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Polyphony Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Azadeh Sarjoughian, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Stacey Kennedy
This special issue explores the concept of polyphony in writing art history, using it as a methodological lens to examine diverse voices, along with their intricate interactions and contradictions,...
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Peripheral Visiting Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Astrid N Korporaal
Decolonial perspectives on art history have elaborated on the ways visual representations and documentary media are intertwined with the colonial project. The visual regime is associated with the c...
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Unsettling the Archive Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Stacey Kennedy
This article contributes to debates around African cultural heritage preserved in European archives and museum institutions. It offers a critical analysis of the Danford Collection of West African ...
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Photography between Publicity and Politics Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Marie Meyerding
Georgina Karvellas was one of the few women photographers documenting apartheid South Africa for several decades. She produced work for the fashion and music sector next to striking documentary wor...
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Miss Chief and the Art of Decolonial Tease Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Renate Dohmen
This discussion posits that the work of the Cree artist Kent Monkman offers a unique and potent contribution to the project of decolonisation rooted in an Indigenised context. Focusing on the parod...
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Writing with Surya Namaz Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Deniz Sözen
This article reflects on notions of the embodied archive in diaspora art, with a particular focus on my situated knowledge and positionality as a diasporic artist of mixed Turkish and Austrian heri...
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The Tour Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Barbara Preisig
What if an artwork changes its shape and sense with every encounter? Is there such a thing as polyphonic meaning, resulting from the interactions with an artwork? Barbara Preisig’s semi-fictional p...
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The Early Black Printmaker(s) in Ilanga Lase Natal, 1903–1905 Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Pfunzo Sidogi
Art historians trace the history of printmaking as a creative endeavour among Black people in South Africa to the mid-twentieth century. While these genealogies are valuable, they exclude and are s...
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The Origins of the Abbey: 1947–1950 Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Rex Butler, A D S Donaldson
One of the new models for thinking the production of art in a new decolonialised art history might be the artist colony. Certainly, in Australia, one of the revolutions Aboriginal art has brought a...
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Interlude 2: Trickster Abrakadabra Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Renate Dohmen, Astrid Korporaal
Published in Third Text (Vol. 38, No. 1-2, 2024)
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New Thai Cinema and the Poetics of Resistance Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Duncan Caillard
Throughout its history, Thai cinema has been entangled with institutions of state power. Through invasive systems of censorship and discursive regulation, the state not only regulates public expres...
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Standing Rock and its Ancestors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jack Rutherford
This article considers the documentary film, Taking Alcatraz (John Ferry, 2015), in the context of US-Indigenous history. The documentary form presents alternative ideas and futures beyond those do...
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Mary Kelly’s Gloria Patri and Negative Narcissism Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ivan Knapp
This article revisits Mary Kelly’s 1992 installation Gloria Patri after the spectacle of masculine violence at the Capitol building on 6 January 2021. Whilst Gloria Patri has received less art hist...
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‘We all came from Soros’ Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Sanja Sekelj, Željka Tonković
Focusing on the period between 1994 and 2006, this study of the Soros Foundation and its spin-offs employs a mixed-method approach to explore the structure of the visual arts scene in Croatia and t...
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19
Published in Third Text (Vol. 37, No. 4, 2023)
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24
Published in Third Text (Vol. 37, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Julie Ren, Charlotte Matter, Rosa Sancarlo, Virginia Marano
Art events like biennials and large-scale exhibitions typically strive to address urgent, timely issues; curatorial approaches respond to various crises from the environment and war to Indigenous r...
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The Implied Who Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Mario Ulloa
This analysis applies theories of recognition explicated by Frantz Fanon, Nancy Fraser, and Pierre Bourdieu towards the semiotic analysis of Le Joli Mai (1963), The Battle of Algiers (1966), and La...
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Anthropocene as Capitalocene Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Cristian Nae
If the Anthropocene designates humanity’s environmental footprint, the Capitalocene underlines the economic and political premises of the current climate crisis, tied to long-term colonial disposse...
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‘Since They Can’t Put Venezuela in Their Suitcase, They Take Mosaic Tiles from the Maiquetía Airport’ Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri
In the process of displacement caused by the current political and economic crises in Venezuela, the Caracas airport has become a place of powerful significance. The floor of the Simón Bolívar Int...
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Kang Yong Suk’sDongducheon Commemorative Portraits Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Haely Chang
Dongducheon Commemorative Portraits series features the nightlife entertainment of black American GIs and Korean prostitutes in the city of Dongducheon, the home of a prominent camptown in South Ko...
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Martin Parr and the Legacy of British Colonial Photography Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Cammie Tipton-Amini
British contemporary photographer Martin Parr’s collection 7 Colonial Still Lifes (2005) delivers banal and benign images of remnants of British colonisation in Sri Lanka. While Parr’s early collec...
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Cinematic Cartographies Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Izabella Wódzka
Patric Chiha’s film Brothers of the Night (2017) depicts a community of Bulgarian Roma sex workers in Vienna, all of them male and self-identifying as heterosexual although working in a gay establi...
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Arthur Bispo do Rosário Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Carolin Overhoff Ferreira
Arthur Bispo do Rosário is one of the best-known and most studied Brazilian artists. His work has been discussed and exhibited as art of the unconscious, popular art, modern and contemporary art an...
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The Slave Ship and Badagry in Ndidi Dike’s ‘Waka-into-Bondage: The Last 3/4 Mile' Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Okechukwu Nwafor
In 2008 Ndidi Dike, a Nigerian artist, held an exhibition titled ‘The Last ¾ Mile: Waka-into-Bondage’. Curated by Bisi Silva, this exhibition, which responded to ongoing events between 2007 and 200...
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The Aesthetic Rift Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Alejandro Pedregal, Jaime Vindel
The development of industrial capitalism led to a reconfiguration of the social function of culture. A commodification of Western culture and fetishisation of art emerged that was inseparable from ...
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10
Published in Third Text (Vol. 37, No. 3, 2023)
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Hyphenated Performance On-Site Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Avital Barak, Daphna Ben-Shaul
This article contextualises and explores participatory site-specific walking performances created for the ‘hyphenated’ area between Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Israel – nowadays a space of trade and recr...
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06
Published in Third Text (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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The Lowest Depths Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Atul Bhalla
In this article, I conceptualise my installation Objects of fictitious togetherness–I that centres on the interplay between memory, postmemory and the search for truth around the Freedom Struggle, ...
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‘Why do you fall in love? Why do you worship Vishnu and Shiva?’ Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Manuela Ciotti
Jagdish Mittal, Vijay Kumar Aggarwal and Om Prakash (O P) Jain's biographies share a major commitment: the creation of art institutions in post-independent India. Labelled as India's ‘interior desi...
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Zinc Vignettes Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Natasha Eaton
This article explores the agency (often self-effacing) of zinc as the critical material and currency of British imperialism. For Primo Levi zinc embodies a rite of passage between metals and his ow...
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The Buried Appraisals of Popular Art Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Prakruti Ramesh
This article explores some ways in which even positive publicity may entail the censorship of the persons and things being publicised. It focuses on the case of the nationally celebrated Indian art...
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Phantom in the Landscape Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Archana Hande
The body of artworks entitled The Golden Feral Trail emerges out of my journeys tracing the relationship between South Asia and Western Australia (WA). Linked by trade and migration flows since the...
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Between the Social Limbo and the Art Canon Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Roberto Conduru
From Luiz Alphonsus’s Rio de Janeiro Police Museum photographic series, this article discusses the complex framing of artifacts used in Brazilian religious communities linked to belief systems in s...
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Make No Mystique! Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Manuela Ciotti
Published in Third Text (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Crypt, Cornucopia and the Surface of Pattern Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ananya Jahanara Kabir
This article argues that the development of highly patterned ‘African print’ textiles known as Dutch Wax print, which bring together designs from Indonesian batik, Indian ornamental protocols and W...
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-28
Published in Third Text (Vol. 37, No. 1, 2023)
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Grid Locks Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 David Lloyd
Abstract This article is based on a painting by Los Angeles-based Black artist Mark Bradford, On a Clear Day, I Can Usually See All the Way to Watts (2001), which was exhibited at SFMOMA in an installation that juxtaposed it to a series of drawings by abstract artist Agnes Martin, Untitled (Study for ‘On a Clear Day'), (2019–2020). In an extended reading of abstraction and its social implications and
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Woman as Battleground Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Katarzyna Falęcka
Abstract This article examines how photographs of women taken by Marc Garanger during his army service in Algeria (1960–1962) have become sites of multiple, often competing mnemonic projections. At the height of the Algerian War of Independence, Garanger produced nearly two thousand identity photographs of those displaced by the French army from villages to detention camps. The photographs of women
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Doors, Windows and the Notebook of Solidarity Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Farshad Zahedi
Abstract The widespread acknowledgement of Kiarostami as a global auteur provides us with a background against which to reconsider one of his most local films as well as one of the most important representations of children in Iranian cinema. When interpreting Where Is the Friend’s House?, many critics and scholars see metaphysical references in the simple act of a child attempting to overcome obstacles
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Mining Matter/s Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Zoe Weldon-Yochim
Abstract The contemporary artist Bonnie Devine (b 1952), a member of the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario, Canada, works in a wide range of media to address the cultural and environmental consequences of uranium mining that occurred in her community. Uranium extraction in the area has resulted in numerous devastations, including radioactive contamination of all fifty-five miles of the Serpent
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
Published in Third Text (Vol. 36, No. 6, 2022)
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Negotiating Offence of Fallist Proportion Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Daniel Herwitz
Abstract The removal of the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town in 2015, prompted by the student Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) campaign, represents a window into how questions of race, art and inequality intertwined as they played out some twenty-five years into South African democracy. Since RMF then turned to the artwork exhibited at University of Cape Town, finding in it a collectively
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Burning the American Flag Before the World Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Aaron Katzeman
Abstract Concentrating on contemporary art, visual culture and politics in Hawaiʻi, this article articulates a specific kind of abolitionist aesthetics that has ecology at its core and through which traces of a demilitarised futurity are interwoven. The work of anonymous collectives, artists and architects ‒including Hui Menehune, Tropic Zine, Jane Chang Mi, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick and Sean Connelly
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Transwar Art in Japan Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Namiko Kunimoto
Abstract This article focuses on the question of periodisations in Japanese art history through a consideration of the long-running careers of four successful but politically and aesthetically diverse artists: Domon Ken (1909‒1990), Okamoto Tarō (1911‒1996), Yoshihara Jirō, and Katsura Yuki (1913‒1991). The arc of these artists careers across the prewar, war, and postwar periods upsets popular
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Against and beyond the Museum Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Alírio Karina
Abstract This article considers the role of museums in contemporary and past formations of imperial knowledge and power, and the consequences of this role for the questions of accountability and restitution that have gained new prominence over the past few years. Departing from the view that matters of repatriation and restitution should privilege the terms of collection, this article instead examines
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Sensing History, Seeking Justice Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Kasia Mika
Abstract Sasha Huber’s Shooting Back-Reflections on Haitian Roots portraits (2004) and the Haïti chérie (‘Haiti, my beloved’, 2010) performance are multi-sensorial works which voice an incessantly reverberating call for justice and solidarity with the absent and silenced victims of past, and ongoing, violences; from Columbus’s 1492 ‘discovery’ and landing on Hispaniola; the Duvaliers’ dictatorship
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Piles of Bones Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Tessel Janse
Abstract Incorporating reindeer remains into haunting art installations, with Pile o’Sápmi, Máret Ánne Sara manifests how Norwegian forced culls impact Sámi autonomy. Mobilising the notion of animal colonialism, this article places Norwegian reindeer policy in a global history of colonisation through targeting animals upon which Indigenous peoples depend. Turning the gaze toward the North, it reads
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Contributors Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-17
Published in Third Text (Vol. 36, No. 5, 2022)
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Mapping the Agency of Trash Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Tanvi Jain, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy
Abstract In view of the growing concerns and innate creative potential of waste, this article reconsiders the ontological status of discarded materials and materiality as active components/agents in the conception, making, and interpretation of art through a new-materialist framework. By denying a pure representational analysis, the study instead brings forth art’s complex dynamic material-semiotic
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Art and Rebellion Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Petja Grafenauer, Daša Tepina
Abstract The aim of this article is to document, contextualise, and theorise the rebellious actions carried out by artists in Slovenia in 2020–2021, and to present these actions as a continuation of the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century. We focus on the diverse actions and protests carried out by a strong alliance of artists, anti-capitalists, anti-fascists, ecological movements, and other
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Debating Neoconcretism Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Renato Rodrigues da Silva
Abstract Neoconcretism was an international pioneer of ‘interdisciplinarity’, since its crossings of mediums and disciplines created original versions of participatory art, performance, installation art, process art, institutional critique, body art and environmental art. However, we must question whether this statement is valid throughout its history. Thus, this article investigates the First Neoconcrete
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Images That Sweat Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Manuel Ramos
Abstract This article revisits the cinema of the late Filipino filmmaker Lino Brocka in order to erode the distinction between realism and spectacle at play, still today, in many discussions about the political capacities of the moving image. The work of Brocka is understood here as both realist and escapist, in agreement with the work of other key non-Western filmmakers that work with anti-colonial
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Fugitive Aesthetics Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Bruce Bennett, Katarzyna Marciniak
Abstract This article discusses four recently released refugee films: Dolce Fine Giornata, Atlantics, Island of the Hungry Ghosts, and Life Overtakes Me. It draws on a range of theoretical frames, including the work of Avery Gordon and Jacques Derrida on spectrality, in order to outline the original concept of ‘fugitive aesthetics’, the narrative and stylistic system that, we argue, underpins a wide
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The Search for an Individual Voice Third Text (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Rinat Podissuk Reisner, Mor Presiado
Abstract This article focusses on Fatma Shanan, one of the groundbreaking Druze women artists in Israel. The article presents an analysis of four of the artist’s self-portraits, made between the years 2010–2017, relating to Shanan’s work as an emotional process. The authors examine how the artist relates to the complexity of her experience as a woman and as an artist active within the patriarchal Druze