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Platform for discussion006 What role can the archive play in developing and sustaining a critical and culturally located art history?

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

John Akomfrah: Artist

Zineb Sedira: Artist

Guy Mannes-Abbott: Writer

Nick Denes: Researcher

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Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Adelita Husni-Bey

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

On Shuruq Harb's The Keeper

When Buildings Become Part of the Record

The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Tahrir Archives

Through art practices, particularly in this region, the artist might slip into this muddy area, which is mostly based on fetishes and collective political memory and which somehow stands on the most influential component of media archive. It is not necessarily only that which is visible and legible, but more...

Working with archives is a relatively new development, only recently have artists and institutions had access to archives. In the Middle East in general, the idea of the archive and of history is very vague. Even the idea of archiving, of having an institution that holds an archive, is new.

I envision the liberation of an archive (from attachment to a person, state, or region) through its transfiguration into a database. This emancipation requires dematerialization and displacement.

The conceptual turn of the 1970s gave full legitimacy to queries into the document and the archive. Issues of memory become the favourite material of contemporary artists. Yet, in Tunisia, we missed the conceptual turn of the 1970s – it took us until the start of the revolution in 2011...

Akira Mizuta Lippit, in Atomic Light (Shadow Optics), characterizes the shadow archive as what cannot be archived, and therefore survives when the archive is destroyed. The shadow archive describes the majority of Arab cultural memory, which survives in non-visual traces, such as the work done by memory and imagination in...

The idea of the art archive in the Middle East provokes a number of associations – some of them spiritual, some historical, some clearly political.

Dispatch One: the Artist and the Archive, June–September 2013

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

An Introduction

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Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

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Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Mona Marzouk in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ali Cherri in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Foundland in conversation with Nat Muller

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

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The role of the archive in critical and culturally located art histories

A Report from the AUC

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

Performances at Echoes & Reverberations

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

A Brief History of the Shoura Council So Far: February 2015

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

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Ala Younis

Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938–1948) at the Centre Pompidou

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

Lara Baladi

An online archive by Lucien Samaha

Helene Kazan

I felt the desire to examine the reverse process: what in art history and, more specifically, in the making of art, can contribute to the development of an archiving process?

...one of the main problems with modernity in the Arab World is the lack of credibility, criticality and scrutiny in understanding, presenting, and evaluating its nature and objects.

The Soldier: 'Indeed, I took these photographs from the pocket of a dead Arab, killed in Bab Al-Wad in the beginning of May 1948.

Ibraaz Platform 006 Editorial

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

From the photo-text series Getty vs. Ghana (2012).

When family members die they take their memories, facts and figures with them. Their stories, as well as their lies and omissions, become harder to track after they've gone. They leave behind mountains of material , with few entry points. If you dare to enter, you will find yourself alone...

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

The Jerusalem Show VIII 'Before and After Origins': Jerusalem

Moments for Possibilities 'Air, Land and Sea': London

Sea of Stories: Beirut

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Responses

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Exhibition Overview

A roundtable discussion

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Driss Ouadahi in conversation with Rachida Triki

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Chapter 1: Intensities

Jasmina Metwaly in conversation with Angela Harutyunyan

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Seth Anziska in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 2: Details

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Basak Senova

Online exhibition catalogue

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Soundscapes: Taking Apart the Arab City by Dr. Alexandra MacGilp

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Farah Al-Nakib in conversation with Todd Reisz

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Adelita Husni-Bey in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Urok Shirhan in Conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lawrence Abu Hamdan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Farah Saleh in conversation with Marianna Liosi

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Mohanad Yaqubi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Raed Yassin in conversation with Nat Muller

Martina Caruso in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Tarek Atoui in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monira Al Qadiri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Joe Namy in conversation with Garine Aivazian

Fulya Erdemci in conversation with Basak Senova

Shumon Basar, Ala Younis and Omar Berrada in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Ayşe Erkmen in conversation with Basak Senova

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Louis Henderson in conversation with Amira Gad

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Hussam al-Saray: in conversation with Ala Younis | A Cultural Encyclopaedia of Iraq

Lois Stonock: Mapping the Possible: Syrian Organizations, Movements and Platforms

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Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

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Coline Milliard

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Two Exhibitions in Paris

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

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Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses: Contemporary Art from the Middle East

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Future Imperfect, A Symposium

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Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

News The Jerusalem Show 007 / 24 October 2014 Ibraaz is pleased to announce the opening of THE JERUSALEM SHOW VII: FRACTURES. Curated by Basak Senova and organized by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, this year's show runs from 24 October to 7 November 2014, and is presented in...

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News JAOU Tunis 2015 008 / 18 May 2015 Jaou Tunis 2015. Copyright Kamel Lazaar Foundation. Visual Culture in an Age of Global Conflict The Kamel Lazaar Foundation is pleased to announce that it will stage a two-day conference at the National Museum of Bardo from 28–29 May, 2015. This...

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London book launch: 19 November, 18:30, Rivington Place

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

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The 2016 March Meeting

Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

A Report from Cologne

An Odd Piece of Research on the Many Virtues of Oriental Imagination

At the Salzburger Kunstverein

Live

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

Adam Szymczyk: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

John Akomfrah: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (UAE)

The Future Was Underwater

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Sama Alshaibi

Heba Y. Amin

Aikaterini Gegisian and Fatma Çiftçi

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Performing the Trial: Re-enactment, Ritual, Remediation

Trace Environments: Sovereignty, toxicity and the littoral

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Omar Robert Hamilton

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

To close Ibraaz Platform 010, we present new essays by Ibraaz Editor-in-Chief Anthony Downey, Ibraaz Senior Editor Stephanie Bailey, Ibraaz Contributing Editor Ala Younis, and Natasha Hoare; interviews with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled, Toleen Touq, Cevdet Erek, Hammad Nasar; projects by Shadi Habib Allah, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi,...

Platform 010 Editorial

Notes on a film by Kamal Aljafari

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Meeting Points 8

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Natasha Marie Llorens

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

On Assumption and Authority

An Introduction to Platform 010

Barrak Alzaid

Of course, I do not wish to be misunderstood as arguing for nativism or closure. But the specific history of the region matters deeply, as factual evidence, but even more so in terms of identifying resources that can be transformed and activated in new ways today.

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

Choreographing Spaces of Gesticulation

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

An Ode to Performing Subjectivity in Research

The Performance of Death in a Post-9/11 World

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

Jumana Manna at Chisenhale Gallery, London

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

'Mixed Media I (2009) is a list of 50 pages of technical descriptions of contemporary art pieces. The list, made up of automatic extractions of data about techniques used in contemporary art practices, is a multi-format, translatable database...'

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Performing Armenity at the 56th Venice Biennale

Lara Khaldi

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

Anthony Downey

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

Pan-Kaffirism in Iraq, South Africa, and Sri Lanka

In a recent video work, Mouthfeel (2014) and a related lecture-performance titled Playlist (2014), I focused on symmetries between forms of aspirational consumption in the Global South.

Outside Looking In: Taking a Title and Running With It*

Burak Delier

A Recourse to the Past

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

Object Lessons from Saadiyat Island and Gehry’s Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

What Does It Mean to Be Building a Library in Iraq?

'I suggest that we look at the past and present strengths of cultural organizations, which have always served social and informational purposes, regardless of region and time. It is in these two spheres that the future resides.'

Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14

Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14

Jananne Al-Ani, Excavations, at the Hayward Gallery Project Space

Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art at SOAS

A Review

HIWAR | Conversations in Amman

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Ariel Hassan

Meriç Algün Ringborg

Mohamed Fariji

Monira Al Qadiri

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Maha Maamoun

A project by Katia Kameli

The Circus (2)

On the Rooftop

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

Cynthia Zaven

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

Naira Antoun

Roy Samaha

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

A Mother's Tongue, On Ahmad Ghossein's film My Father is Still a Communist

Lina Khatib

Khaled Hafez

Marwa Arsanios

Cecilia Andersson

Projects 'Graphic Witness' at Drawing Room, London 010 / 16 June 2017 When images of conflict and protest can be so easily captured on mobile devices, why translate them into graphic representations? How does the translation into graphic form change the act of witnessing, fabricate commentaries on instances of injustice,...

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Basma Alsharif

Amira Hanafi

Maya Chami

APEAL's 'Museum in the Making' and Temporary. Art. Platform. present: The 2016 Ras Masqa Artists' Residency

Tom Bogaert

Sohrab Kashani

Hassan Khan

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s 'A photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp'

Alsi Çavuşoğlu at Delfina Foundation, London

Repatriation of Iraq's Looted Heritage under International and Domestic Law and Practice

Waterside Contemporary

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Gezi Resistance, Public Space and the Counter-monumental

Tinkerings on the Instable Present Tense

Amy Charlesworth

Is soft power helping or hindering the state of the arts in Jordan?

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

The Problem of Nationality

Introduction

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

The Net is Not a Tool, It’s an Environment

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

Theatre As a Tool of Empowerment

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Platform for discussion004 With the benefit of hindsight, what role does new media play in artistic practices, activism, and as an agent for social change in the Middle East and North Africa today? Basim Magdy 2 November 2012 Basim Magdy Every Subtle Gesture, 2012 - ongoing Colour prints on Fuji...

Precarious Images, the Aesthetics of Conflict, and the Future of an Anachronism

Since the 25th of January 2011, a traditional arts programming model has become functionally irrelevant in Egypt. In this context of conflict and change, diverse publics have asked to use Townhouse's spaces in ways that extend far beyond the scope of visual arts exhibitions. Consequently, over the past year, we...

News from the Arab World reaches western audiences on a daily basis. The various analogue and online formats of media – TV, radio, newspapers, and blogs – are extensively reporting on the events in this region. In Berlin, and certainly elsewhere in Europe, cultural institutions and festivals reacted very quickly...

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

Mirene Arsanios

During the July sit-in in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the site of the revolution at the beginning of the year, a group of artists and filmmakers lit up a corner of the square with an open-source 'revolutionary' screen: Tahrir Cinema . Every night, a filmmaker, journalist or activist presented a...

Initiated by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in 2011, Ibraaz is the leading critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. We publish an annual online platform – consisting of essays, interviews, artists' projects, and platform responses – that focuses on research questions conceived through a network...

Mayssa Fattouh

Samah Hijawi Documents for a Narrative of Art History of Jordan, 2010-ongoing M ulti-media project Video excerpt, 1'40" Courtesy of the artist This ongoing research project is concerned with different aspects that have influenced the development of visual art practices in Jordan over the last 60 years. It uses multi-media...

Chamber of Public Secrets Here, There, Then, Elsewhere, 2011 Video, 21' Produced by CPS Chamber of Public Secrets

Mark Westmoreland

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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