Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making

Explores a variety of artistic responses to contemporary global crises including climate emergency, global and local inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic. Focuses on how artistic production is adapting and offers a series of artistic, curatorial considerations and pedagogical proposals for the world we live in and the one we want. 115 b&w illus.

Grace McQuilten is associate professor in the School of Art at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the coauthor, most recently, of Art as Enterprise: Social & Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art. Daniel Palmer is associate dean of research and innovation in the School of Art at RMIT University. He is author of Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing.