
Unfixed: Photography and Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art
- Publisher
- Jap Sam Books / Stichting Unfixed Projects
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 9789490322298
- Specifications
- Paperback
240 pages
21 x 29.7 cm
English
Editors: Sara Blokland, Asmara Pelupessy
Design by Yvonne van Versendaal
Nominated Best Photo Book 2012, photo-eye magazine
Examines a medium through a decolonial lens and the diverse critical positions of an international group of writers, artists and scholars working within contemporary art and cultural analysis. The finishing work of a multiplatform initiative that included an artist residency, exhibition, workshop and symposium, this presents new voices and visions in the form of nine visual and textual essays, taking unique stands through an unconventional range of approaches and styles. Together with documentation of the different project stages, the essays explore topics such as migration and circulation, vernacular use, archives, memory, diaspora, self-representation, appropriation, visual sovereignty, exoticism and cultural protocol, presenting new critical perspectives in relation to the conditions of postcolonialism.