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books, artists, websites, actions, articles and images to inform and inspire
John Berger’s book, The Shape of A Pocket, is a series of essays on art, culture, and the state of the world. “The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance,” Berger writes. “A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order.”
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375718885
An NYC-based culture and politics blog:
Common Dreams website: “Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community”—a daily compilation of articles, analyses, and op-eds.
A series of Christian fiction books that takes prophesies of an Apocalypse and a Second Coming as its starting point – the “Left Behind” series – is one of the most popular sets of publications in the US today. In an excellent article for the New York Review of Books, Joan Didion explains how they work, what they mean, and why we should worry. (Non-subscribers have to pay for the article.)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=16749
“Hurry hurry hurry. The world is waiting for you! Organize. Speak the truth,” urges the playwright Tony Kushner in his new book, Save Your Democratic Citizen Soul! Rants, Screeds and Other Public Utterances for Midnight in the Republic.
http://www.thenewpress.com/books/savesoul.htm
“Enduring assumptions of what constitutes an ‘Islamic woman’ are at once domestic to that culture and colonially crafted on it,” writes a critic on a site featuring photos by the mind-blowing Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. “With a singular strike of creative genius, Shirin Neshat manages to target both of these divergent yet colliding agents.”
http://www.iranian.com/Arts/Dec97/Neshat/
“RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project, is a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance recreating, on September 9th and 10th 2004, Robert Kennedy's two-day, 200 mile "poverty tour" of southeastern Kentucky in 1968 . . . .”
http://www.appalshop.org/kennedy/
“Founded in 1976 by muralist Judith F. Baca, painter Christina Schlesinger, and filmmaker Donna Deitch. The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) is an arts center that produces, preserves and conducts educational programs about community-based public art works. SPARC espouses public art as an organizing tool for addressing contemporary issues, fostering cross-cultural understanding and promoting civic dialogue. . . .”
The photographer Carrie Mae Weems calls her grounded and spiritual work “quasi-documentary.” She is a visionary.
http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/CarrieMaeWeems/index.html
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