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Remaking the Exceptional – Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo
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Inspired by elaborate etchings on Styrofoam teacups made by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, this book presents the "Tea Project," a series of tea ceremony performances and installations. It gathers artwork and writing from torture survivors, contemporary artists, collectives, and scholars exploring themes of torture, justice, and reparations through aesthetics and politics.
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This book is suited for readers interested in contemporary art, human rights, political activism, and cultural responses to trauma and justice.
Issued with an attached pamphlet entitled "Image testimony," line drawings by torture survivors Abu Zubaydah and Darrell Cannon, which as court evidence and documents become legal testimony to the use of force.
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Remaking the Exceptional – Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo accompanies an exhibition curated by artists Ginsburg and Hughes, bringing together artwork and writing by torture survivors, artists, and scholars.
Since 2009, Chicago-based artists Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes have collaborated on the “Tea Project,” an ongoing series of tea ceremony performances and installations inspired by the elaborate etchings made on Styrofoam teacups by detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Produced to accompany the 2022 exhibition curated by Ginsburg and Hughes at DePaul Art Museum, Remaking the Exceptional brings together artworks by former and current detainees from Chicago and abroad, new works by contemporary artists and collectives, and texts by leading scholars working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics.
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ISBN: 9781737760900
Publisher: DePaul University Art Museum
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 September 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: DePaul University Art Museum
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 33.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 718g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Amber Ginsburg is an artist and a lecturer at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts. Aaron Hughes is an artist, curator, organizer, teacher, anti-war activist living in Chicago.
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