Aeffect: The Affect and Effect of Artistic Activism

The first book to seriously identify how artistic activism works and how to make it work better

The past decade has seen an explosion in the hybrid practice of “artistic activism,” as artists have turned toward activism to make their work more socially impactful and activists have adopted techniques and perspectives from the arts to make their interventions more creative. Yet questions haunt the practice: Does artistic activism work aesthetically? Does it work politically? And what does “wor...