Research Catalog

Title

Organize your own : the politics and poetics of self-determination movements / curated by Daniel Tucker ; catalog edited by Anthony Romero.

Publication

Chicago : Soberscove Press, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Romero, Anthony
• Tucker, Daniel, 1983-

Description

247 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 18 cm

Summary

"Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements features new work by contemporary artists, poets, and writers that relates to the Black Power movement's mandate to "organize your own" community against racism. Exploring the question of what "your own" might mean, this book connects some of the concerns dealt with in the 1960s and '70s to the conversations and social movements around racial justice happening today. Far from an historical account, Organize Your Own documents and expands upon an exhibition and event series of the same name that took place in Chicago and Philadelphia in early 2016. In addition to exhibition documentation and a series of commissioned texts, this book also includes transcripts from five panel discussions that were organized as part of the exhibition. Two of these discussions focus on the original Rainbow Coalition, a unique example of race and class negotiation in which organizations such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and the Young Patriots Organization joined forces. Other discussions and contributions explore poetry, performance, and socially engaged art--which, broadly speaking, finds its foundation in the histories and language of community organizing. What is the role of politics and poetics in complicating and clarifying these ongoing conversations--the ones that happen when people come together?"--Back cover

Subject

• Art and society > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• "Created on the occasion of Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements, a multi-city exhibition and event series that took place in Philadelphia and Chicago in early 2016."--Pages 7-8.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Reflections -- Oyo A Conclusion / Daniel Tucker -- Panthers Patriots And Poetries In Revolution / Mark Nowak -- Organize Your Own Temporality / Rasheedah Phillips -- Categorical Meditations / Mariam Williams -- On Amber Art / Bettina Escauriza -- Conditions / Jen Hofer -- Bobby Lee's Hands / Fred Moten -- 2. Panels -- Organize Your Own? -- Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia -- Organize Your Own? -- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago -- Original Rainbow Coalition -- Slought Foundation, Philadelphia -- Original Rainbow Coalition -- Columbia College. Chicago -- Artists Talk -- The Leviton Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago -- 3. Projects And Contributions -- Amber Art and Design -- Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research -- Dan S. Wang -- Dave Pabellon -- Frank Sherlock -- Irina Contreras -- Keep Strong Magazine -- Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela -- Mary Patten -- Matt Neff -- Rashayla Marie Brown -- Red76, Society Editions, and Hy Thurman -- Robby Herbst -- Rosten Woo -- Salem Collo-Julin -- The R. F. Kampfer Revolutionary Literature Archive -- Thomas Graves and Jennifer Kidwell -- Thread Makes Blanket -- Works Progress with Jayanthi Kyle.

ISBN

• 1940190118
• 9781940190112

LCCN

2016943606

OCLC

• ocn975246845
• 975246845
• SCSB-1883995

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library