Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

Contents

Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements ix Imagining Resistance: An Introduction 1 Kirsty Robertson and J. Keri Cronin Refus Global 23 Speaking Pie to Power: Can We Resist the Historic Compromise of Neoliberal Art? 27 Gregory Sholette Canadian Artists’ Representation and Copyright 49 John and Yoko’s Media War for Peace 55 Louis Kaplan Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge: A Living Culture Needs a Living Wage 75 Monumental Interventions: Jeff Thomas Seizes Commemorative Space 79 Claudette Lauzon General Idea and AIDS 95 Resistant Performers and Engaged/ing Public(s) 101 Jessica Wyman “The Named and the Unnamed”: Gendering the Canadian Art Scene 115 Borders in the City 121 Ayesha Hameed Crisis of Representation: Multiculturalism, Minquon Panchyat, and “The Lands Within Me” 141 Bread and Five-Ring Circuses: Art, Activism, and the Olympic Games in Vancouver and London 147 Kirsten Forkert Aboriginal Representation and the Canadian Art World 165 v APEC at the Museum of Anthropology: The Politics of Site and the Poetics of Sight Bite 171 Ruth B. Phillips Culture Jamming 193 Titanium Motherships of the New Economy: Museums, Neoliberalism, and Resistance 197 Kirsty Robertson Anarchy 215 Behind the Mask/I Am the Other: Solidarity and Struggle in The Fourth World War 219 David Jefferess Gentrification 237 Toward a Conclusion: A Focus on the Visual Culture of Activism 243 J. Keri Cronin Bibliography 251 Contributors 271 Index 275 Contents vi ...