Article by Prof. Martha Buskirk in Artnet
Prof. Martha Buskirk talks art, community, Occupy Boston, and the “Immigrant Movement International” art project in Tania Bruguera: ART & POLITICS AT OCCUPY BOSTON
Within the art world, the label of choice is “international,” referring to itinerant artists who move from project to project with a relative ease that stands in sharp contrast to the experience of those displaced by political or economic necessity. And the specific dynamics of each community leave open the question of whether it is indeed possible to forge a global immigrant identity. – Martha Buskirk
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Prof. Buskirk is the author of The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2003) and Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace (forthcoming, Continuum, spring 2012).