Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe

Timely and provocative, this publication edited by curator Maria Lind and thecollective WHW (What, How & for Whom) continues the debate on the startlingincrease of nationalism across Europe. Commenced in 2012 with the projectBeginning as Well as We Can (How Do We Talk about Fascism?), Art and theF Word features several social and artistic projects by cultural critics, curatorsand artists from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Jordan and Germany investigatingthe language of politics and philosophy, popular vocabularies, social contexts,media, science, aesthetics and the potential of aesthetic experience to questionreality and upset the political and ideological resignation that too often resultsin the loss of control over the direction of social transformation. Compellingessays by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg, BarnabásBencsik, Boris Buden, Maria Lind and Tensta konsthall, Jelena Vesic and WHW,augmented with black-and-white photographs of projects and installations.