Demonstrations: Making Normative Orders

Between the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, 2011 will certainly be remembered as the year of insurrection, and this volume could not come at a more timely moment. Demonstrations offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the possibilities of public demonstration through an analysis of historical and contemporary paintings, graphics, photographs, installations, video and sound works and performances. Contributors include Bani Abidi, Jost Amman, Claudia Bosse, Irina Botea, Wilhelm Bulow, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova, Discoteca Flaming Star, Ludwig von Elliot, Johann Georg Funck and Michael Roessler, Francois Georgin, James Gillray, Jana Gunstheimer, Nicoline van Harskamp, Johann Peter Hasenclever, Sharon Hayes, Alexander Hoepfner, Johann Jakob Kirchhoff, Noel Lemire, Les Trucs, Lovefuckers, Peter Lynen, Marcello Maloberti, Anna Mendelssohn, Rabih Mroue, F.G. Nordmann, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Alfred Rethel, Henry Ritter, Julian Roeder, Yorgos Sapountzis, Sandra Schafer, Georg Schlicht, Eske Schluters and others.