Politics of Difference in Contemporary Art

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Politics of Difference in Contemporary Art

• Misako Okuyama
• Prof. Rachel Mason
• Centre for Art Education and International
  Research (CAEIR)
• Roehampton University, UK

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Background/Context

• PhD in progress
• Culturally Diverse Women Artists in London
• Art Pedagogy in Informal Education Settings

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Theoretical Framework

• Cultural Identity
• Visual Politics
• Contemporary Art
• Representation
• Informal Art Education

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Cultural Identity

• Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of
  a group of culture, or of an individual as far as
  she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a
  group or culture (http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cul
  tural identity)

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Visual politics

• visual politics means the way in which race,
  gender and ethnicity shape art practice that is
  who makes art, how it sells, and who values it,
  who writes about it (Hooks, 1995, p.XIII).
• Hook, B. (1995). Art on my mind visual
  politics. New York The New Press.