Art as a Political Witness

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies. THE AUTHOR: Dr. Kia Lindroos is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Frank Möller is Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland.