Day 2. Panel 5. Protest Art and Informality

Описание: The Global Informality Project conference examined informality in artistic media, practices, creative labour, and cultural production. It brought together artists, academics, and cultural practitioners to explore how informal networks, unwritten rules, and hidden practices shape cultural production across different contexts.

Political or protest art often focuses on political crimes and illegalities – the repression of peaceful protests, the illegal shadow surveillance of citizens, and corruption at all levels. This panel invites scholars, artists and art practitioners to think collectively and creatively about the workings of informal powers that give meaning and often normalisation to political crimes – from corruption and nepotism to violent and illegal crackdowns on dissent. How did artists of the past think about informal power in both democracies and autocracies? What kind of visual languages and pictorial or performative critiques emerge in artistic fields when artists think about, with or against informality and its pervasive practices?

Timecodes
00:00 Halyna Bakhmatova, “Informality of cultural and social life as the only opportunity to survive in the frontline city Kherson (for those who remained and for refugees)”
22:46 Mahi Shah, “Making Room: The Politics of Space and Affect in Contemporary Cuban Art”
32:36 Clara Cheung, “Performing the Hyperlocal Histories at the Mobile Museum of Harcourt Roads”
44:38 Natalija Stepanović, “Poor body, Big plans: Informal protocols of belonging in contemporary queer writing”
57:08 Anastasia Korableva, “Between the Seen and the Unsaid: Poetic Street Art in Authoritarian Space”
1:06:31 Hoyee Tse, “Clashing with the State: The Visual Depiction of Artist-Protestors in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong Social Movement”
1:17:16 Alena Ledeneva, “Suspended Punishment” performance and artwork, and the art composition “Nine Pieces, How Many Patterns?”