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Painting Collective Memory: Art in Iraq’s Tishreen Movement

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This paper examines this ‘artivism’ within the collective memory of Iraq’s Tishreen Movement and explores the question of how it continues to be used today. Besides a nostalgic instrument, what function does artivism serve five years later?

Layperson's description

This paper examines this ‘artivism’ or the use of art in activism within the collective memory of Iraq’s Tishreen Movement and explores the question of how it continues to be used today. Besides a nostalgic instrument, what function does artivism serve five years later?

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Project ongoing for the "Comics, Memory, Activism" special issue in Memory, Media & Mind journal.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date10/11/2430/05/25