From Empathy to Benevolence
Summary
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Empathy
Winter 2019
Given the problems we face in the twenty-first century, the capacity to appreciate the feelings and emotions of others would appear to be a potential antidote to excessive individualism and the allure of withdrawing into one’s own identity. But can empathy really change the world? This issue examines empathy in the context of contemporary creation and seeks to determine whether art can contribute to building sensitive bridges between people that are geographically, socially, and culturally distant and whose experiences differ.
Editorial
Feature
With Open Eyes: Affective Translation in Contemporary Art
Opacity Against the Abuses of Empathy
To Empathize is the Question
The Automation of Empathy
Muscular Empathy and Not Knowing in Dara Friedman’s Mother Drum
Victoria Lomasko and the Graphic Language of Empathy
Flat Death Jest: Julia Martin’s Performatist Aesthetics of Empathy
Inside and Outside the System : Artists Against Prisons
ATSA: When Art Reaches Out
Portfolios
Reviews
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Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.