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<div><i>Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural
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<div>Vera List Center for Art and Politics<br>
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<div><font size="+3"><b>ÐMay Day book launch and celebration-<br>
<i>Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural
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<div>May 1, 2017, 6:30pm<br>
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<b>The New School</b><br>
John L. Tishman Auditorium<br>
63 Fifth Avenue<br>
New York City, NY<br>
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<div><i>Assuming Boycott</i> defiantly holds the best arguments
regarding boycott. It shows that boycott is not only a form of
sanctions but also an invitation to dialogue. This collection of
essays offers a historical perspective with comparative case studies,
making it the ultimate resource to help decide where to draw the
ethical line.<br>
-Galit Eilat, writer and curator, co-curator of 31st São Paulo
Biennial<br>
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<div>The brilliant writers and debaters assembled here come at the
issue from different angles, all from the central belief that art is
never not political. In the end, they are less interested in arguing
for or against tactics than they are in advocating an art of political
thinking.<br>
-Holland Cotter, co-chief art critic,<i> The New York Times</i><br>
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<div>The refusal to participate in an oppressive system has long been
one of the most powerful tools in the organizer's arsenal. <a
href=
"http://http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/events/2035/assuming-boycott-resistance-agency-and-cultural-production-/"><i><b><span
></span>Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural
Production</b></i></a> is the essential reader for today's creative
leaders and cultural practitioners, and includes original
contributions by artists, scholars, activists, critics, curators, and
writers who examine the historical precedent of South Africa; the
current cultural boycott of Israel; freedom of speech and
self-censorship; and long-distance activism. Far from representing
withdrawal or cynicism, boycott emerges as a special condition for
discourse, artmaking and political engagement.<br>
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<div>As U.S. cultural and academic organizations are increasingly
subjects of boycotts-in response to the ban on immigration from
majority Muslim countries issued by the current U.S.
administration-the question of boycott attains additional urgency.
This May Day Book Launch features the three editors,<b> Kareem
Estefan</b>,<b> Carin Kuoni</b> and<b> Laura Raicovich</b>, in a
lively exchange with book contributors artist<b> Mariam Ghani</b> and
art historian<b> Chelsea Haines</b>, joined by<b> Claire Potter</b>,
Professor of History, The New School, and investigates the potential
of boycott as a tool for organizing and art making.<br>
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A festive reception with<b> DJs ConVex</b> and<b> DJD</b> (Salome
Asega and Derek Schultz) follows, in celebration of the book and other
May Day assemblies in the city. Co-sponsored by <a
href=
"http://interferencearchive.org/sowing-resistance-propaganda-party/"
>Interference Archive</a>, on occasion of Sowing Resistance,
Propaganda Party no. 5.<br>
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<div><a
href=
"http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/publications/2053/assuming-boycott-resistance-agency-and-cultural-production/"><b><span
></span>Assuming Boycott</b></a> features twelve newly commissioned
essays and six contributions by Nasser Abourahme, Ariella Azoulay,
Tania Bruguera, Noura Erakat, Kareem Estefan, Mariam Ghani with Haig
Aivazian, Nathan Gray and Ahmet Ög˜üt, Chelsea Haines, Sean
Jacobs, Yazan Khalili, Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich, Svetlana
Mintcheva, Naeem Mohaiemen, Hlonipha Mokoena, John Peffer, Joshua
Simon, Ann Laura Stoler, Radhika Subramaniam, Eyal Weizman and Kareem
Estefan, and Frank B. Wilderson III.<br>
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It is published by <a
href="http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/assuming-boycott/">OR Books</a>,
in association with the <a
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"http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/events/2035/assuming-boycott-resistance-agency-and-cultural-production-/"><span
></span>Vera List Center for Art and Politics</a>.<br>
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<div>For pre-orders-at a discount!-please visit <a
href="http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/assuming-boycott/">OR
Books</a>.</div>
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