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.

Table of Contents 1) Kia Lindroos & Frank Moller: Witnessing in Contemporary Art and Politics; 2) Louie Palu; 3) Cynthia Milton: Witnessing: Artistic Representation and Memory in the Aftermath of Violence; 4) Susanna Hast: Children Witnessing War: Emotions Embodied in the Theatre Play Wij/Zij; 5) Suvi Alt: Bearing Witness and Playing in Ruins: On the Onto-Poetics of Abandoned Places; 6) Bruno Lefort: 'Achrafiyeh Invaded' - The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of the Lebanese Factionalism; 7) Tommi Kotonen: Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/11; 8) Sally Butler & Roland Bleiker: Embodied Witnessing: Indigenous Performance Art as Political Dissent; 9) Kia Lindroos: Chris Marker as Cinematic Witness; 10) Frank Moller: The Violence of Witnessing; 11) Dana Mills: The Body Remembers: Dance, Discourses of Citizenship, Phenomenology and Memory; 12) Kia Lindroos & Frank Moller: Conclusion; Bibliography