Art and the Politics of Visibility

`Things do not get seen by simply existing. In the world of visual culture, visibility remains highly political and a much-contested concept that touches upon issues of identity and representation, ethics and recognition, responsibility and justice. This rich collection of texts is a commendable attempt to rethink the politics of visibility in the context of art. It is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the vicissitudes of (in)visibility'. - Btihaj Ajana, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Digital Humanities & Creative Industries, King's College London and Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, `Art and the Politics of Visibility provides a lively and productive space for academic debates between visual culture, critical theory and transnationalism to meet, to develop and to exchange. It is wide-ranging in scope, moving from feminist arguments over the veil to the precarities of Chinese art, from the hospitality of Thai cinema to racializations of UK video production. A powerful concern with ethics, borders and transnational knowledge exchange runs throughout this thoughtful collection, which will be of great interest to scholars across a range of disciplines'. - Jo Littler, Reader in the Centre for Culture and Creative Industries, City University of London, `This is an extraordinary book. Genuinely transnational and transdisciplinary, it troubles borders and asks important questions about art, politics, representation and visibility. In doing so it opens up new ethical, intellectual and political spaces for thinking about visual culture. An exciting and contemporary read it will be of interest to artists, students, philosophers, sociologists, media scholars, film-makers and journalists- and anyone interested in the spectacular visuality of our rapidly-changing world'. - Rosalind Gill, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, City University of London, `At a time when interdisciplinarity has largely ceased posing the exciting challenges that it posed 30 years ago and has been comfortably assumed into old orders of discourse, along comes Zeena Feldman with Art and the Politics of Visibility to reassert the radical possibilities of such work. Bravo to her and her brilliant contributors'. - Toby Miller, Visiting Professor for the Department of Social Communication at Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.