.dpi #18 Launch : « Resistance-Violence »

Editor-in-Chief: Tania Perlini

.dpi 18 is the third and last issue in a three-part series focusing on the theme of resistance. This issue examines the controversial status of violence in the arts.

While addressing various artistic practices, the contributors of this issue do not hesitate to question the potential effectiveness of violence as artistic matter and as resistance strategy, and to propose alternate forms of resistance to violence. In addition to its social, political and moral dimensions, this issue invites readers to examine the aesthetic properties of violence, while questioning its impact on the evaluation of a work’s potential artistic value: may artistic merit accommodate fictive and/or real representations of violence?

ARTICLES :

Surface Violence: Pamela Masik’s The Forgotten
by Amber Berson

All Too Human: A Critical Examination of Portraiture, Representation and Motivations in Jenn Ackerman’s Photojournalistic Series Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
by Olivia C. Pipe

CHRONICLES:

Project Femme codées: The “burqua mini-skirt,” how to resist?
by Arkadi Lavoie Lachapelle

The Confinement of Elisabeth
by Albertine Bouquet

“In the Studio”: Take Care of Yourself: A Conversation with Social Practitioner Lori Gilbert
by Mel Mundell

NEW MEDIA ARTWORK:

shot/silence
by Erin Sexton

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