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‘What happens when art is no longer understood as representing politics, but as one of the ways political possibility is composed? The essays gathered in Ultra-left aesthetics trace a remarkable array of experiments in revolutionary culture, collective creativity, and tactical imagination. Bringing together histories that are too often treated separately, this volume offers an indispensable contribution to understanding how aesthetic practice has helped invent forms of life beyond the limits of both capitalism and the orthodox Left.’
—Stevphen Shukaitis, author of The Wages of Dreamwork and editor of Minor Compositions
David AJ Murrieta Flores is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Abigail Susik is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Willamette University
Preface: Back to the future, ultra-left redux - Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Towards an ultra-left aesthetics - Abigail Susik and David AJ Murrieta Flores
1 From the faceless crowd to the black bloc (and back) the visual politics of Black Mask - Jacopo Galimberti
2 Hiding out in Diane Di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters - Sean Lovitt
3 On the art of shooting men: violence, misandry, and the feminist imaginary in the work of Valerie Solanas and VALIE EXPORT - Breanne Fahs
4 Pop-Che: the myth of the heroic guerrilla soldier in Argentinean art - Ana Longoni
5 Total art in disguise — the aesthetic of anarcho-Daoism: The Fourth Group in Cold War South Korea, 1970 - Sooran Choi
6 ‘In our own backyard’: DIY feminist aesthetics confront the authoritarian State in late Cold War Pakistan, 1977-1988 - Kristin Plys
7 ‘Not the work… the worker’: Gordon Matta-Clark’s encounter with workerism - Joseph Sannicandro
8 Towards a materialist art of the encounter: Althusserian Marxism in Mira, Germinal and Suma (Mexico, 1978-1981) - David AJ Murrieta Flores
9 A surrealist revolution against whiteness?: Considerations on the surrealist contributions to Race Traitor journal (1993-2005) - Abigail Susik
10 We need no Communist to tell us we are oppressed: anti-apartheid art, radical curating and the Left at the 1982 Culture and Resistance Festival - Polly Savage