@article{ART001940686},
author={Keith B. Wagner},
title={Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2014},
number={36},
pages={285-304},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011}
TY - JOUR
AU - Keith B. Wagner
TI - Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2014
VL - null
IS - 36
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 285
EP - 304
SN - 1598-7728
AB - Art traverses borders and nowhere is this more apparent than on the mega exhibition from Germany known as Documenta. By repurposing the Black Audio Film Collective’s essay film Handsworth Songs (dir. John Akomfrah, 1986) to installation art in the 2002 Documenta 11 series, I argue that notions of transnationalism uproots meaning and discourse about racial discrimination for future retrospection in our racialized global society, sparking a cross-continental dialogue in the process. A second concern in this essay is the “trans-media” modulations of BAFC’s essay film format ― an elastic mode of filmmaking and storytelling ― particularly in its “rethinking” of politico-aesthetic content. My ultimate contention is that the transformation of the essay film to that of installation art in Documenta 11 is still irrevocably indexical, precisely because it occupies a new but stable role: “transmitter” of mixed culture and mixed history in gallery rather than theatrical (or television) exhibition.
KW - Documenta 11;Black Audio Film Collective;resistance transnationalism;repurposing;xenophobia;anti-racism;Paul Gilroy
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
ER -
Keith B. Wagner. (2014). Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs. Journal of History of Modern Art, 36, 285-304.
Keith B. Wagner. 2014, "Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.36, pp.285-304. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
Keith B. Wagner "Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs" Journal of History of Modern Art 36 pp.285-304 (2014) : 285.
Keith B. Wagner. Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs. 2014; 36 : 285-304. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
Keith B. Wagner. "Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs" Journal of History of Modern Art no.36(2014) : 285-304.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
Keith B. Wagner. Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs. Journal of History of Modern Art, 36, 285-304. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
Keith B. Wagner. Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2014; 36 285-304. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
Keith B. Wagner. Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs. 2014; 36 : 285-304. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
Keith B. Wagner. "Resistance Transnationalism and Anti-Racism: Documenta 11’s Political and Aesthetic Repurposing of Black Audio Film Collective’s Handsworth Songs" Journal of History of Modern Art no.36(2014) : 285-304.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2014..36.011
