contemporary art

Issue 4.4 Previous Issues

Kendrick Lamar and the Dialectics of Performing Hip Hop

Bryan Banker September 7, 2015 1 Comment African American community American culture American identity Black Lives Matter Cleveland contemporary art contemporary culture defiance dialectics embodiment Hegel hip hop Kendrick Lamar Michael Chabon music performative consciousness political activism protest racism violence W.E.B. Du Bois

In his recent performance at the 2015 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards in June, Los Angeles rapper Kendrick Lamar performed the song ‘Alright’ while standing defiantly upon a defaced police car, an impossibly large United States flag fluttering behind him. The obvious political nature of both the staging and song choice (with lyrics like ‘we hate po-po/Wanna …

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Issue 1.3 Previous Issues

Making Art in Dystopia

Adam Stock August 1, 2012 1 Comment Aldous Huxley bioart capitalism contemporary art dystopia Eduardo Kac George Orwell God's Gardeners Hannah Arendt Ionat Zurr Light Criticism logos Margaret Atwood Oron Catts Oryx and Crake Pig Wings Project Steve Lambert Year of the Flood

When contemporary artists work alongside scientists with “wet hands” in the bioscience laboratory, the results can test both scientific and moral imaginations. New uses of living material raise multiple ethical issues, and a concern for future…

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