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Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction. Agoraphilia: Notes on the Possibility of the Public (Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra)
  • New Muralisms
    • Chapter 1. New Muralisms after Muralism (Natalia de la Rosa and Julio García Murillo)
    • Dossier A. Grupo Germen
    • Chapter 2. Public, Political, and Aesthetic Spaces in Ayotzinapa (Ana Torres)
    • Dossier B. Campamento Audiovisual Itinerante (CAI)
  • Feminist Publics
    • Chapter 3. Politics of Enunciation and Affect in an Age of Corporeal Violence: Mónica Mayer’s The Clothesline and Pinto mi Raya’s Embraces (Karen Cordero Reiman)
    • Dossier C. Colectivo A.M.
    • Chapter 4. Performative Resurrections: Necropublics and the Work of Guadalupe García-Vásquez (Erin L. McCutcheon)
    • Dossier D: Teatro Ojo
    • Chapter 5. The Ultimate Witnesses: Listening to Teresa Margolles’s Counterforensic Archive (Carlos Fonseca and Enea Zaramella)
    • Dossier E: La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote
  • Antimonuments and the Undercommons
    • Chapter 6. Public Art and the Grammars of Antiracism (Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez and Sarah Abel)
    • Dossier F: Aeromoto
    • Chapter 7. Menos Días Aquí and Bordamos por la Paz: Grief, Social Protest, and Grassroots Memorialization in Mexico’s War on Drugs (Adriana Ortega Orozco)
    • Dossier G: Antimonuments: The Brigade for Memory
    • Chapter 8. Conceptualizing the Public: Femicide, Memorialization, and Human Rights Law (Michael R. Orwicz and Robin Adèle Greeley)
  • Migrant Poetics and Capitalist Landscapes
    • Chapter 9. On Affordable Housing: Reflections on the (A)political Evolution of the Territory (Arturo Ortiz-Struck)
    • Dossier H: Brigada Tlayacapan
    • Chapter 10. Polvo/Polvoriento/Polvareda: The Poetics of Dust, Dissent, and Migration (Erica Segre)
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/09/2023
      ISBN13: 9781477327623, 978-1477327623
      ISBN10: 1477327622

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction. Agoraphilia: Notes on the Possibility of the Public (Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra)
      • New Muralisms
        • Chapter 1. New Muralisms after Muralism (Natalia de la Rosa and Julio García Murillo)
        • Dossier A. Grupo Germen
        • Chapter 2. Public, Political, and Aesthetic Spaces in Ayotzinapa (Ana Torres)
        • Dossier B. Campamento Audiovisual Itinerante (CAI)
      • Feminist Publics
        • Chapter 3. Politics of Enunciation and Affect in an Age of Corporeal Violence: Mónica Mayer’s The Clothesline and Pinto mi Raya’s Embraces (Karen Cordero Reiman)
        • Dossier C. Colectivo A.M.
        • Chapter 4. Performative Resurrections: Necropublics and the Work of Guadalupe García-Vásquez (Erin L. McCutcheon)
        • Dossier D: Teatro Ojo
        • Chapter 5. The Ultimate Witnesses: Listening to Teresa Margolles’s Counterforensic Archive (Carlos Fonseca and Enea Zaramella)
        • Dossier E: La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote
      • Antimonuments and the Undercommons
        • Chapter 6. Public Art and the Grammars of Antiracism (Abeyamí Ortega Domínguez and Sarah Abel)
        • Dossier F: Aeromoto
        • Chapter 7. Menos Días Aquí and Bordamos por la Paz: Grief, Social Protest, and Grassroots Memorialization in Mexico’s War on Drugs (Adriana Ortega Orozco)
        • Dossier G: Antimonuments: The Brigade for Memory
        • Chapter 8. Conceptualizing the Public: Femicide, Memorialization, and Human Rights Law (Michael R. Orwicz and Robin Adèle Greeley)
      • Migrant Poetics and Capitalist Landscapes
        • Chapter 9. On Affordable Housing: Reflections on the (A)political Evolution of the Territory (Arturo Ortiz-Struck)
        • Dossier H: Brigada Tlayacapan
        • Chapter 10. Polvo/Polvoriento/Polvareda: The Poetics of Dust, Dissent, and Migration (Erica Segre)
      • Acknowledgments
      • Contributors
      • Index

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