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    The New Public Art
    Collectivity and Activism in Mexico Since the 1980s

    Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra (Edited by)

    9781477327623, University of Texas Press

    Hardback, published 12 September 2023

    304 pages, 46 b&w photos, 7 b&w illustrations
    25.4 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.853 kg

    The New Public Art is valuable for giving less-known artists greater (and well deserved) exposure.
    (CHOICE)
    The emphasis on the activist restructuring of public collectivity through art leaves a sense of excitement, provocation, and inspiration that will be attractive to activists, artists, and academics alike. I imagine one of the reasons it was attractive to [Polgovsky Ezcurra] and the contributors to publish this volume in English was to make connections among artists and activists on both sides of the US-Mexico border. For those not particularly interested in the fine arts, the chapters would do very well as a window into thinking about some of the larger trends in recent Mexican politics in scholarship and the classroom alike.
    (NACLA)

    Essays on the rise of community-focused art projects and anti-monuments in Mexico since the 1980s.

    Mexico has long been lauded and studied for its post-revolutionary public art, but recent artistic practices have raised questions about how public art is created and for whom it is intended. In The New Public Art, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, together with a number of scholars, artists, and activists, looks at the rise of community-focused art projects, from collective cinema to off-stage dance and theatre, and the creation of anti-monuments that have redefined what public art is and how people have engaged with it across the country since the 1980s.

    The New Public Art investigates the reemergence of collective practices in response to privatization, individualism, and alienating violence. Focusing on the intersection of art, politics, and notions of public participation and belonging, contributors argue that a new, non-state-led understanding of "the public" came into being in Mexico between the mid-1980s and the late 2010s. During this period, community-based public art bore witness to the human costs of abuses of state and economic power while proposing alternative forms of artistic creation, activism, and cultural organization.

    • Introduction. Agoraphilia: Notes on the Possibility of the Public (Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra)
    • New Muralisms
      • Chapter 1. New Muralisms after Muralism (Natalia de la Rosa and Julio GarcÍ
        a Murillo)
      • Dossier A. Grupo Germen
      • Chapter 2. Public, Political, and Aesthetic Spaces in Ayotzinapa (Ana Torres)
      • Dossier B. Campamento Audiovisual Itinerante (CAI)
    • Feminist Publics
      • Chapter 3. Politics of Enunciation and Affect in an Age of Corporeal Violence: MÓ
        nica Mayer’
        s The Clothesline and Pinto mi Raya’
        s Embraces (Karen Cordero Reiman)
      • Dossier C. Colectivo A.M.
      • Chapter 4. Performative Resurrections: Necropublics and the Work of Guadalupe GarcÍ
        a-VÁ
        squez (Erin L. McCutcheon)
      • Dossier D: Teatro Ojo
      • Chapter 5. The Ultimate Witnesses: Listening to Teresa Margolles’
        s Counterforensic Archive (Carlos Fonseca and Enea Zaramella)
      • Dossier E: La Casa de El Hijo del Ahuizote
    • Antimonuments and the Undercommons
      • Chapter 6. Public Art and the Grammars of Antiracism (AbeyamÍ
        Ortega DomÍ
        nguez and Sarah Abel)
      • Dossier F: Aeromoto
      • Chapter 7. Menos DÍ
        as AquÍ
        and Bordamos por la Paz: Grief, Social Protest, and Grassroots Memorialization in Mexico’
        s War on Drugs (Adriana Ortega Orozco)
      • Dossier G: Antimonuments: The Brigade for Memory
      • Chapter 8. Conceptualizing the Public: Femicide, Memorialization, and Human Rights Law (Michael R. Orwicz and Robin AdÈ
        le Greeley)
    • Migrant Poetics and Capitalist Landscapes
      • Chapter 9. On Affordable Housing: Reflections on the (A)political Evolution of the Territory (Arturo Ortiz-Struck)
      • Dossier H: Brigada Tlayacapan
      • Chapter 10. Polvo/Polvoriento/Polvareda: The Poetics of Dust, Dissent, and Migration (Erica Segre)
    • Acknowledgments
    • Contributors
    • Index

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