Art and the Politics of Visibility

Zeena Feldman is Lecturer in Digital Culture in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. She publishes on the relationship between social media and everyday life.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Why Visibility Matters
Zeena Feldman (City University London)

Chapter 1 Chinese Artist Films in the Transnational Art World: Yang Fudong and the Politics of Precarity
Chris Berry (Goldsmiths)

Chapter 2 The Blind Spots of Representation: The Difficulty of Reading
Juliet Steyn (City University London)

Chapter 3 Defiant Embodiments and the Gender Geopolitics of Seeing
Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths)

Chapter 4 (In)Visibility as Resistance: Performing the Right to Disappear in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K
Patrick Hanafin

Chapter 5 Valences of Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Narrative in Video Art
Rachel Garfield (video artist)

Chapter 6 Hauntology and Hospitality in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Janet Harbord (Queen Mary)



Exhibitions on the Move: Biennales, Borderlines, and
Politics of Itinerancy
Anthony Gardner (University of Melbourne)

Chapter 4 Visible Veil Dressing and the Gender Geopolitics of
‘What (Not) to Wear’
Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths)

Chapter 5 Textures of Displacement: Local Sites, Global Stuff
Philip Crang (Royal Holloway)

Chapter 6 The Horse, the Stranger and the Therapist:
Media and Estrangement in the Age of New Visibility
Shani Orgad (London School of Economics)

Chapter 7 Ethics and Visual Culture
Zeena Feldman (City University London)

Bibliography Index