Art as a Political Witness

Dr. Kia Lindroos is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Frank Möller is Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland.

• Table of Contents 1) Kia Lindroos & Frank Moller: Witnessing in Contemporary Art and Politics; 2) Louie Palu; 3) Cynthia Milton: Witnessing: Artistic Representation and Memory in the Aftermath of Violence; 4) Susanna Hast: Children Witnessing War: Emotions Embodied in the Theatre Play Wij/Zij; 5) Suvi Alt: Bearing Witness and Playing in Ruins: On the Onto-Poetics of Abandoned Places; 6) Bruno Lefort: 'Achrafiyeh Invaded' - The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of the Lebanese Factionalism; 7) Tommi Kotonen: Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/11; 8) Sally Butler & Roland Bleiker: Embodied Witnessing: Indigenous Performance Art as Political Dissent; 9) Kia Lindroos: Chris Marker as Cinematic Witness; 10) Frank Moller: The Violence of Witnessing; 11) Dana Mills: The Body Remembers: Dance, Discourses of Citizenship, Phenomenology and Memory; 12) Kia Lindroos & Frank Moller: Conclusion; Bibliography