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Sternberg Press
04 May 2021

Gender studies, gender groups; Picture books

A reader on issues of race, class, and gender in post-Socialist states from an artworld perspective.

A reader on issues of race, class, and gender in post-Socialist states from an artworld perspective.

Come Closer- The Biennale Reader, published on the occasion of the inaugural Prague biennale, considers the present via counter-hegemonic readings of the past. The book explores various perspectives of class, race, and gender differences in post-socialist states, past and present. In societies today that can seem fragmented, alienated, and sealed-off, a feeling of ""us"" and ""them"" can potentially emerge. The reliance on a common language to bring people closer often does the opposite, leading to feelings of contempt, anxiety, and fear. By drawing attention to themes of intimacy, care, and empathy, the contributions in this book search for new types of communication that can bring people together. Like language, art can be used to mediate these differences, and to examine issues relating to how people coexist in society.

Come Closer comprises republished texts as well as newly commissioned contributions from both emerging and established artists, social and political scientists, and art historians from Eastern Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Contributors

Jer me Bazin, Heather Berg, Pavel Berky, Anna Daučikova, Patrick D. Flores, Isabela Grosseova, Vit Havranek, Marie Iljasenko, Rado Istok, Barbora Kleinhamplova, Eva Koťatkova, Kateřina Liskova, Ewa Majewska, Tuan Mami, Alice Nikitinova, Alma Lily Rayner, Sarah Sharma, Jirka Skala, Adela Souralova, Edita Stejskalova, Tereza Stejskalova, Matěj Spurn , Ovidiu Tichindeleanu, Simone Wille

Edited by: Vit Havranek, Tereza Stejskalova
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9783956795701
ISBN 10: 3956795709
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vit Havranek is a curator and art organizer based in Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2002 he has been a director of the initiative for contemporary art tranzit (www.tranzit.org). Tereza Stejskalova (Czech Republic) is a curator and a writer working for tranzit.org and a lecturer of art theory at the Film Academy in Prague (FAMU).

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