[spectre] Fwd: BAK release of We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Betreff: 	BAK, basis voor actuele kunst announces release of We Roma: A 
Critical Reader in Contemporary Art
Datum: 	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:00:13 -0400


We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

Edited by Daniel Baker and Maria Hlavajova

Published by *BAK*, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and *Valiz*, book
and cultural projects, Amsterdam

http://www.bak-utrecht.nl

We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, edited by Daniel Baker
(artist, curator, and researcher; London) and Maria Hlavajova (artistic
director of BAK, Utrecht), inquires into the contemporary moment through 
the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering
knowledge from the Roma way of life. As the so-called West's
misconceptions of itself, inherited from the legacy of the modern, are
being unmasked through unprecedented shifts in politics, society,
aesthetics, and economics—what can we learn from the commonalities among 
political struggles of historically marginalized communities such as 
Roma and in what we know as majority society? With the emblematic claim 
in the artistic imaginary "we Roma," with which we appeal to wider 
society—how can we invoke the possibility of a different world and 
alternative futures? Artists, theorists, writers, and activists—both 
Roma and non-Roma—speculate on such questions and the possibility of art 
to imagine the world otherwise.

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To order a copy of We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art/,
please send an e-mail to info at bak-utrecht.nl or visit the website of 
Valiz at http://www.valiz.nl