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Art As An Act Of Social Justice: Introduction To Art, Music, Poetry, In The Time Of Social Distance, Christine J. Yeh
Art As An Act Of Social Justice: Introduction To Art, Music, Poetry, In The Time Of Social Distance, Christine J. Yeh
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
In this special issue in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship Art, Music, Poetry, in the Time of Social Distance, five contributors write about the impact of injustice and COVID-19 on their creative works and emergent challenges facing artists, composers, and writers. Providing a cultural and socio-political lens, the essays include images of video, poetry, and art to explore and expose our day to day lived experiences of the pandemic—from notions of isolation, normalcy, community, and distance to the larger impacts this has had on historically targeted groups.
We Need New Myths: Art-Making In The Pandemic And What Follows, Laleh Khadivi
We Need New Myths: Art-Making In The Pandemic And What Follows, Laleh Khadivi
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
Writer and professor Laleh Khadivi in We Need New Myths juxtaposes the stillness born from shelter-in-place orders with the constant motion of migrants around the world—seeking asylum, a new life, and survival.
Art And Internet Infrastructure, Liat Berdugo
Art And Internet Infrastructure, Liat Berdugo
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
In her essay Art and Internet Infrastructure, multimedia artist, curator, and professor Liat Berdugo contemplates and complicates our overreliance and relationship with networks and technology especially during shelter-in-place.
Three Poems In Search Of Justice: A Postmortem, Dean Rader
Three Poems In Search Of Justice: A Postmortem, Dean Rader
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
Writer, poet, and professor Dean Rader in Three Poems in Search of Justice: A Postmortem, explores the idea of poetry as a form of justice and shares three original socially-oriented poems as part of a poetic/political project or as he shares “outward” versus “inward” facing.
Making Activist Songbook Virtual, Byron Au Yong
Making Activist Songbook Virtual, Byron Au Yong
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
In Making Activist Songbook Virtual, composer and professor Byron Au Yong, discusses the challenges and complexities of moving 53 new activist raps and songs to a virtual format. As the songbook was participatory in nature, the creative team also had to examine methods of fostering online civic engagement.
The Sanctuary City Project, Sergio De La Torre
The Sanctuary City Project, Sergio De La Torre
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
Artist, curator, and professor Sergio De La Torre discusses his work with The Sanctuary City Project, which is an ongoing community-based participatory project that develops deeper conversations and awareness about immigration issues often times transforming oral history into visual representations.