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Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making
The World We Want
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An exploration of diverse art practices that attempt to offer new ways of understanding and being in the world. Contemporary art has a complex relationship with crisis. On the one hand, art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos, reflects and amplifies the effects...
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Explores a variety of artistic responses to contemporary global crises including climate emergency, global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. Focuses on how artistic production is adapting and offers a series of artistic, curatorial considerations and pedagogical proposals for the world we live in and the one we want. 115 b&w illus.
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An exploration of diverse art practices that attempt to offer new ways of understanding and being in the world.
Contemporary art has a complex relationship with crisis. On the one hand, art can draw us toward apocalypse: it charts unfolding chaos, reflects and amplifies the effects of crisis, and shows us the dystopian in both our daily life and in our imagined futures. On the other hand, art's complexity helps us fathom the uncertainty of the world, question and challenge the order of things, and allows us to imagine new ways of living and being—to make new worlds.
This collection of written and visual essays includes artistic responses to various crises—including the climate emergency, global and local inequalities, and the COVID-19 pandemic—and suggests new forms of collectivity and collaboration within artistic practice. It surveys a wide variety of practices, oriented from the perspective of Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Art making has always responded to the world; the essays in this collection explore how artists are adapting to a world in crisis.
The contributions to Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making are arranged in four sections: artistic responses; critical reflections, new curatorial approaches, and the art school reimagined. Alongside the written chapters, three photographic essays provide specific examples of new visual forms in artistic practice under crisis conditions.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781835951767
Publisher: Intellect
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 November 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Intellect Books
Illustration: 115 Illustrations, black and white
Contributors:
- Edited by Grace McQuilten
- Edited by Daniel Palmer
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 170.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 396
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About the Author
Grace McQuilten is a senior lecturer and leader of the Contemporary Art and Social Transformation Research Group at RMIT University, Australia. Grace completed her Ph.D. in art history at the University of Melbourne in 2008. In 2016, she published the book Art as Enterprise: Social & Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art (co-authored with Dr Anthony White, IB Tauris,2016) and in 2011 Art in Consumer Culture (Ashgate Publishing, 2011). She has curated major exhibitions at venues including the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Immigration Museum of Victoria and National Gallery of Victoria and has presented public art projects and events for festivals such as the Sustainable Living Festival, the State of Design Festival, Craft Cubed and Melbourne Spring Fashion Week.
Daniel Palmer is associate dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Art at RMIT University. Palmer holds a Ph.D from the University of Melbourne and his research and professional practice focuses on contemporary art and cultural theory, with a particular emphasis on photography, digital media and art and politics. Palmer’s book publications include Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia 1848–2020 (Perimeter Editions 2021) with Martyn Jolly; Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing (Bloomsbury 2017); Digital Light (Open Humanities Press, 2015), edited with Sean Cubitt and Nathaniel Tkacz; The Culture of Photography in Public Space (Intellect 2015), edited with Anne Marsh and Melissa Miles; Twelve Australian Photo Artists (Piper Press, 2009), co-authored with Blair French; and Photogenic (Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2005).
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