Assuming Boycott

Introduction by Kareem Estefan I. The Cultural Boycott of Apartheid South Africa Sean Jacobs, The Legacy of the Cultural Boycott Against South Africa John Peffer, Art, Resistance, and Community in 1980s South Africa Hlonipha Mokoena, Kwaito: The Revolution Was Not Televised; It Announced Itself in Song Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (excerpt) II. BDS and the Cultural Boycott of Israel Ariella Azoulay, ¿We,¿ Palestinians and Jewish Israelis: The Right Not to Be a Perpetrator Noura Erakat, The Case for BDS and the Path to Co-Resistance Eyal Weizman and Kareem Estefan, Extending Co-Resistance Nasser Abourahme, Boycott, Decolonization, Return: BDS and the Limits of Political Solidarity Joshua Simon, Neoliberal Politics, Protective Edge, and BDS Yazan Khalili, The Utopian Conflict III. Who Speaks? Who Is Silenced? Tania Bruguera, The Shifting Grounds of Censorship and Freedom of Expression, from Cuba to Israel Naeem Mohaiemen, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Campaign Svetlana Mintcheva, Structures of Power and the Ethical Limits of Speech Ann Laura Stoler, By Colonial Design: Or, Why We Say We Don¿t Know Enough IV. Dis/engagement From Afar Chelsea Haines, The Distant Image Mariam Ghani with Haig Aivazian, 52 Weeks, and Engaging by Disengaging Nathan Gray and Ahmet Ö¿üt, Not Walking Away: Participation and Withdrawal in the 2014 Sydney Biennial Radhika Subramaniam, Loose Connection

Carin Kuoni is a curator and editor whose work examines how contemporary artistic practices reflect and inform social, political and cultural conditions. She is Director/Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and teaches there. A founding member of the artists¿ collective REPOhistory, Kuoni has curated and co-curated numerous transdisciplinary exhibitions, and edited and co-edited several books, among them Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America; Words of Wisdom: A Curator¿s Vademecum; Speculation, Now; and Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice. She is the recipient of a 2014 Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, directed ¿SITAC XII: Arte, justamente¿ in Mexico City in 2015, and is a Travel Companion for the 57th Carnegie International in 2018.