A companion to contemporary art in a global framework / edited by Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Eurocentrism of contemporary art, staging the project / Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones -- Part I. Decades. 1980-1990. I live in the fourth dimension when I create landscapes: artist statement / Senga Nengudi ; Seeing beyond east/west divides: contemporary art in and around 1980s China / Jenny Lin. 1990-2000. Is there a line that connects all thins? Artist statement / Sutapa Biswas ; Why contemporary art is post-Soviet / Angela Harutyunyan. 2000-2010. Art and politics: artist statement / Tania Bruguera ; Maori and pacific art at the turn of a new millennium / Nina Tonga and Caroline Vercoe. 2010-2020. Art for abolition: artist statement / Patrisse Cullors ; Situating African diasporic art / Nana Adusei-Poku -- Part II. Themes. Institutions/Ontology. COLONIALISM "The whole world in his hands": a decolonial approach to European concepts of art / Claire Farago ; PEDAGOGY The blank canvas and other myths / Al-An de Souza ; CRAFT Craft and the making of "Global" contemporary art / Pamela N. Corey ; PERFORMANCE Dreams and visions in the interval / Mlondolozi Zondi ; EMBODIMENT/MATERIALITY Love songs (to end hetero-patriarchal, settler-colonial, extractivism) / Natalie Loveless. Politics/Public sphere. REVOLUTION Revolution is a circle / Tatiana Flores ; ART AND ITS MARKETPLACES It was a small world, after all / Suzanne Hudson ; PUBLIC SPHERES The politics of public space in postrevolutionary Iran / Talinn Grigor ; (ANTI-) CAPITALISM The imminent promise and fear of a getaway car / Raqs Media Collective ; ENVIRONMENT Envisioning a more just future: feminist activist art, climate change, and the anthropocene / Lisa E. Bloom. Identity/Subjectivity. INDIGENEITY Global futurisms: prophetic practices of reclamation, liberation, and transcendence / Timoteo I. Montoya II ; DIASPORA Transnational collectivities of solidarity and affect / Ceren Ozpinar ; GENDER/SEXUALITY Performing the intersection: camp and the "cat lady" / Jane Chin Davidson ; RACE/ETHNICITY Three forms of appropriation: Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon, and Nao Bustamante / Jessi DiTillio and Cherise Smith. Methods/Theories. POSTCOLONIAL/DECOLONIAL Post-/Anti-/Neo-De- colonial theories and visual analysis / Alpesh Kantilal Patel ; MARXISM/POST-MARXISM History, Marxism, reality, and utopia: the Bishan project in China (2010-2016) / Ou Ning ; CRITICAL RACE THEORY "The blast work": situating critical race theory in contemporary art and curatorial practice / Kelli Morgan in dialogue with Amelia Jones ; POSTSTRUCTURALISM/POSTMODERNISM/POSTCOLONIALISM Mapping poststructuralism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism / April Baca ; GENDER/SEX THEORY Feminist/Queer/Trans theory and trans embodied methodologies in contemporary art: an intergenerational dialogue on the page / Ace Lehner and Amelia Jones ; PERFORMANCE THEORY The "studies protocols" of performance studies / Joshua Chambers-Letson. Technology/Media. INTERNET "Bias is not a bug. It's a feature": an interview with Hito Steyerl on representation in the digital age / Hito Steyerl and Anuradha Vikram ; SOCIAL MEDIA Why is it so hard to look the other in the eye? The selfie and its discontents / Derek Murray ; ALGORITHM Algorithms in global art and visual culture / Gary Kafer and Tyler Quick. Exhibition/Collecting/Archive. MUSEUM Time, love, and the museum / Florencia San Martin ; BIENNIAL/ART FAIR Biennial as a discursive political system for contemporary art / Jane Chin Davidson ; CURATING In residence, incarcerated Regina Jose Galindo's America's family prison / Andy Campbell ; COLLECTING The world should collect itself: collecting art globally (and other predicaments) / Gerardo Mosquera ; ARCHIVE Ghosts in the archive: exorcism, resurrection and the possibilities of repair / Hammad Nasar.

"A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (CAGF) is designed to provide a cultural, political, social, and aesthetic history of post-1980 visual arts in a global framework. The book is intended for students and specialists, but also for any reader interested in what art is and what it does in and beyond the Euro-American (shorthand for European and North American-so called Western) context. By "global framework," the book points to the necessity of moving beyond the Euro-American canons of art and artists while recognizing the structurally European bases for what we call art and its institutions. That is, the book does not claim global coverage, but rather offers a wide range of perspectives by curators, artists, art historians, performance studies scholars, and others on art since 1980 both within and beyond the Western context"-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
JANE CHIN DAVIDSON is Professor of Art History and Global Cultures at California State University, San Bernadino. She has published widely on topics in contemporary global art, Chinese diasporic identity in the arts, performance, transnationalism, feminism, and eco-feminism. As an exhibition curator, she studies the decolonizing processes for global exhibitions.

AMELIA JONES is Robert A. Day Professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her published work and curated exhibitions have focused on queer, feminist, and anti-racist analyses of modern and contemporary visual art and performance of the Euro-American tradition. She is Editor of A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (Wiley Blackwell, 2006).