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''In 'Creating Spaces of Freedom: Culture in Defiance’ the editors have gathered an exhilarating collection of international artists who are beaming out
songs, cartoons, websites, all kinds of words and images through the gaps in official structures.'' Marina Warner, The Independent.
''A long-overdue look at the role of art in places where subversion is the only way to challenge the status quo.While the European avant-garde has spent the last half-century in relatively cosseted surroundings, artists, writers and photographers in places like Nigeria, Algeria and South America have fought official censorship and international indifference.''' Wallpaper*
In some countries, artists, novelists, web designers, musicians and cartoonists express dissenting views of the social and cultural circumstances in which they live and work.Their experience of resistance ranges from social exclusion to, at worst, state oppression. In response they seek refuge within the imagination and creative endeavours, where they create and inhabit ‘spaces of freedom’. Creating Spaces of Freedom, an anthology of essays on defiant culture, features contributors such as Nobel Prize winner for literature Wole Soyinka, antiapartheid activist Albie Sachs, banned Vietnamese novelist Duong Thu Huong and Algerian comedian Fellag. In addition, the book contains nearly 100 photographs of news images, CD and book covers, films, cartoons, websites and art. From Brazilian soap operas and Chinese avant-garde art to Arab cartoons and Serbian websites, people around the world find ways of transcending limitations and skirting repercussions. Creating Spaces of Freedom celebrates triumph over adversity.
Contributors include: Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Muhammad Fellag (Algeria/France), Albie Sachs (South Africa), Al-Jazeera (Qatar), Marcel Khalifé (Lebanon), and Ali Farzat (Syria).
Els van der Plas is the director of the Prince Claus Fund. Marlous Willemsen was a policy officer at the Prince Claus Fund. Malu Halasa was the managing editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library.
isbn 0 86356 736 3
publishers Saqi Books with
Prince Claus Fund Library, 2002
paperback, 22 x 17 cm, 196 pages
110 colour illustrations.
price € 24.20 / £ 14.95
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