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Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987

Risk Work: Making Art and Guerrilla Tactics in Punitive America, 1967-1987

Gleisser, Faye Raquel

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ISBN10: 0226826465
ISBN13: 9780226826462
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 17 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.20 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering policing, racism, and surveillance.

As US news covered anticolonialist resistance abroad and urban rebellions at home, and as politicians mobilized the perceived threat of guerrilla warfare to justify increased police presence nationwide, artists across the country began adopting guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art. Risk Work tells the story of how artists' experimentation with physical and psychological interference from the late 1960s through the late 1980s reveals the complex and enduring relationship between contemporary art, state power, and policing.

Focusing on instances of arrest or potential arrest in art by Chris Burden, Adrian Piper, Jean Toche, Tehching Hsieh, Pope.L, the Guerrilla Girls, Asco, and PESTS, Faye Raquel Gleisser analyzes the gendered, sexualized, and racial politics of risk-taking that are overlooked in prevailing, white-centered narratives of American art. Drawing on art history and sociology as well as performance, prison, and Black studies, Gleisser argues that artists' anticipation of state-sanctioned violence invokes the concept of punitive literacy, a collectively formed understanding of how to protect oneself and others in a carceral society.

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