Art Beyond the Edge

Creativity and Conflict in a World on Fire
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-29933-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a quarter century of collaborative artistic production, research, and activism across five continents, this book is a field-breaking and era-defining exploration of art created during sociopolitical conflict and war, protests and calamities, and their aftermaths. With the goal of generating a critical theory that can meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds propose a new and radical vocabulary, epistemological foundation, and praxiological roadmap for engagement with and in performance activism and political art. From Gaza to Chiapas, Baghdad to Kabul, the Niger Delta to the Congo River, the US to Ukraine, the authors establish an innovative matrix to analyze the conditions through which artistic production empowers struggles for freedom, dignity, and survival in a world on fire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LeVine, Mark

Reynolds, Bryan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

1. Art Beyond the Edge: A Fugitive Exploration
2. Burning Man: Performance Activism and the Art of Emurgence
3. The Miraculous Love Kids: Grrrl Power, Rock 'n' Roll, and Rebellion in Afghanistan
4. Nabi Saleh, Real to Alloreal: A Collaborative Exploration Between The Freedom Theatre and the Transversal Theater Company
5. The Capitalist Hydra vs. Mutant Algae: The Ecosophy of Zapatista Murals; or, Advancing like a Snail
6. Playing for Your Life: Music as Chiasmus at the Edge of Chaos
7. Enough Is Enough: Beyond Railroad, a Testimony to Survival, Justice, and Faith
Coda: Beyond the Edge, into the Abyss

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark LeVine is Professor of History at UC Irvine, a Guggenheim Fellow, multi-award-winning musician, film producer, journalist, and cofounder of both the Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change at UC Irvine and Kakuma Sound.

Bryan Reynolds is Distinguished Professor and Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at UC Irvine, Artistic Director of the Amsterdam-based Transversal Theater Company, a director of theater, a performer, and a playwright. He has published over a dozen books and his plays and musicals have been produced at seventy-five venues in twenty-two countries.