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Mega-museums and modern artists from the Middle East

Samiha Khalil

Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art

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

An Introduction

Elif Öner in conversation with Derya Yücel

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Chkoun Ahna at the National Museum of Carthage, Tunis, 2012

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

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...

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

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

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,...

Edmund Clark at the Imperial War Museum, London

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

Nicola Baird

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

Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum

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

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

Mohamed Fariji

Mahmoud Khaled

Monira Al Qadiri

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

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

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

The Making of the Artwork by the Artist, the Museum and the Public

Sitting in the sweltering sun of Sharjah on a large rolled carpet on the open esplanade facing the museum, I express to an acquaintance, my uneasiness and inability to respond to the question. We need MENA (I had continually mistaken it for MENASA, unconsciously adding yet another region to the...

When did the major museums of the West start taking contemporary Middle Eastern art into consideration? After 2006, with the first successful sale of Middle Eastern contemporary art by Christie's in Dubai, and the announcement shortly afterwards that Abu Dhabi was going to invest billions in museum creation. Of course,...

نصوص تقاطع الأعمال الفنّيّة

مدن 5 | غزة، باللون الأحمر

"الأيدي العائدة | حول معرض "يا حوت لا توكل قمرنا

"اسم الجدّة | عن العمل الفوتوغرافي "مراية تيتا" لرندة شعث، من معرض "أهل البحر

متمردون بالمصادفة، سنوات لا ترحم" عن "العودة" غير المألوفة في المشهد الفلسطيني"

لما شتَّت الدنيا سمك

عودة" ليلية يقودها الحمام"

آثار حيَّة | على الطريق من النقب إلى كانبيرا

Edited by Anthony Downey & Lina Lazaar (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011)

Edited by Anthony Downey (jrp|ringier, 2015)

A tool-guide by Temporary. Art. Platform. (T.A.P.) with Nayla Geagea

Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Publications كتابة هذا البحر 010 / 31 August 2017 تمت كتابة هذه النصوص بأعقاب قلنديا الدولي 2016 نسخة 'هذا البحر لي'، وفي إطار مساق 'الكتابة مع الصور' وهو مساق تجريبي بادر إليه برنامج الثقافة والفنون في مؤسسة عبد المحسن القطَّان وتم تنظيمه بشراكة المتحف الفلسطيني وجمعية الثقافة العربية، ورواق، ومركز...

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Gaza

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

/Tilted/: Ramallah

RE/viewing Jerusalem #2 – REturn: Jerusalem

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

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

This Sea is Mine: Amman

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

After Thoughts: Shuruq Harb

Programme Downloads

Acknowledgements

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Bethlehem

Amman

London

Ramallah & Al-Bireh

Jerusalem

Haifa

Gaza

Beirut

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Responses

Acknowledgements

Installation Views

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Installation views

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ismaïl Bahri in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Kaabi-Linke in conversation with Lina Lazaar

Shezad Dawood in conversation with Sara Raza

Ziad Antar in Conversation with Anthony Downey

Jack Persekian in conversation with Basak Senova

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Tarek Al-Ghoussein in conversation with Anthony Downey

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Lida Abdul in conversation with Sara Raza

Roy Samaha in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nathan Witt in conversation with Amira Gad

Diana Al-Hadid in Conversation with Fawz Kabra

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Chapter 1: Intensities

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Rasha Salti in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Abbas Akhavan in conversation with Anthony Downey

Pascal Hachem in conversation with Nour K Sacranie

Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anthony Downey

Cynthia Zaven in conversation with Basak Senova

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Yuko Hasegawa in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo and Stephanie Bailey

Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jeremy Hutchison in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Tamara Chalabi, Reem Shather-Kubba, and Jonathan Watkins in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan in conversation with Basak Senova

Marie-Monique Steckel in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Downloadable Exhibition Guide

Fractures: Children's Activity Book

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 6: Writing

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Preface: Jack Persekian

Introduction: Basak Senova

Online exhibition catalogue

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Acknowledgements

Magdi Mostafa: Wisdom Tower: from the series Sound Cells (Fridays)

Basma Alsharif: We Began by Measuring Distance

Joe Namy: space, breath, time

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran

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

Curator's Introduction

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

End of War in Iraq: The Yes Men and Steve Lambert

Performance documentation: Lin Yilin

Chic Point Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints: Sharif Waked

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

Hair and Milk Bottle: Hassan Sharif

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

Photographs With A Flag: Mohammed Kazem

I March In The Parade Of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free: Sharon Hayes

Variation on Discord and Divisions: Mona Hatoum

Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work): Emily Jacir

Operation Atropos: Coco Fusco

OLGA'S NOTES, all those restless bodies: Marwa Arsanios

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

Dream City in Tunis

Lina Majdalanie in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Lidia Al-Qattan in conversation with Monira Al Qadiri

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Magdi Mostafa in conversation with Clelia Coussonnet

Sohrab Kashani in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Online exhibition catalogue

Closing Remarks

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Online Programme

Video documentation: Day 2

Video documentation: Day 1

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Gülsün Karamustafa in conversation with Basak Senova

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

Reem Fadda in conversation with Fawz Kabra

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

UBIK in conversation with Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Online exhibition catalogue

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Taysir Batniji in conversation with Silke Schmickl

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige in conversation with Nat Muller

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adel Abidin in Conversation with Basak Senova

Sussan Deyhim in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Morehshin Allahyari in conversation with Hannah Gregory

Hassan Sharif in conversation with Nujoom Al Ghanem

Caveh Zahedi in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lasse Lau in conversation with Amira Gad

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Cristiana Perrella

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Online exhibition catalogue

Seth Ayyaz in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Maya Zbib in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Dia Azzawi in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Hrair Sarkissian in conversation with Raed Yassin

Walid Siti in conversation with Nat Muller

Rabih Mroué in conversation with Anthony Downey

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Van Hove in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Nav Haq in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Sumesh Sharma in conversation with Amanprit Sandhu

Anthony Downey and Beatrix Ruf in conversation with Slavs and Tatars

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Jonas Staal in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Vangelis Vlahos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

November Paynter and Didem Pekün in conversation with Basak Senova

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

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

Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Eungie Joo in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Discussing arts infrastructure in Tehran

Maryam Jafri in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Ahmed Nagy in conversation with Mai Elwakil

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Akram Zaatari in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nevin Aladağ in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo

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

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Larissa Sansour in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Nida Sinnokrot in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Hicham Khalidi in conversation with Daniella Rose King

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

Jumana Manna in conversation with Sheyma Buali

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Kim Beamish in conversation with Sam Bowker

Hajra Waheed in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Younes Bouadi 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

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Christine Tohme in conversation with Rachel Dedman

Nora Razian, Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, and Angela Harutyunyan in conversation, with a contribution from Natasha Gasparian

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Meriç Algün Ringborg in conversation with Nora Razian

Amar Kanwar in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Fadi Bardawil in conversation with Zeynep Oz

Hamza Halloubi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Anthony Downey: Introduction to 'Future Imperfect'

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

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

Wided Rihana Khadraoui: Digitalizing Social Change through Cultural Institutions in Saudi Arabia

Monira Al Qadiri: The Saudi New Wave | Digital Landscapes and Future Institutions

Nile Sunset Annex: Plotting in Egypt: Art People

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

Leila Al-Shami: Emerging from ‘The Kingdom of Silence’ | Beyond Institutions in Revolutionary Syria

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Sharjah Art Foundation, 17-19 March 2012

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Isabella Ellaheh Hughes

Coline Milliard

Ibraaz

Sara Raza

The Cairo Seminar in Alexandria, dOCUMENTA (13)

Ibraaz

Malu Halasa

Two Exhibitions in Paris

The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Artist Residency Programme

Notes from a roundtable discussion on the state of the arts in Egypt

Ibraaz

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

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

Ibraaz

The second meeting of Maghreb des Arts

A Report on Future City

Ibraaz

09–11 May, Museé National du Bardo, Tunis

Edge of Arabia Launches Culturunners

Ibraaz

Tom Snow

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

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

Ibraaz

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

A Report from the AUC

A Report from Home Works 7 and Athens Biennale 5 to 6

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

The Art for Tomorrow Conference 2016 in Doha

On the 2016 Global Art Forum ‘The Future Was’

The 2016 March Meeting

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Two Exhibitions on the Armenian Legacy in Anatolia

Videobrasil

The Annual Signature Forum of Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW)

Larissa Sansour

Aimee Dawson

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Trevor Paglen: Aesthetics

Köken Ergun: Lived Experience

Karen Mirza and Brad Butler: Social Imagination

Basim Magdy & Stephanie Bailey: Collective Memory

Burak Arikan & Başak Şenova: Network Data

Live

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Shiva Balaghi: in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Okwui Enwezor: in conversation with Anthony Downey

1971-1979 The Short Seventies (World)

Soviet Orientalism and Political Mobilisation

Crisis The End of Pearling in the Gulf (Qatar)

1972-1982 Spaceship Sheraton and the Making of Doha's Masterplans

Fayçal Baghriche

Anthony Downey: Editor-in-Chief, Ibraaz

Moncef Dhouib: Theatre- and film-maker

Tania El Khoury: Live artist

Rita Alaoui: Artist

Hiwa K.: Artist

Oumaïma Manai: Choreographer

Ghazi Gherairi: Professor of Law, Carthage University

Kamel Lazaar: Founder, Kamel Lazaar Foundation

Adel Abidin: Artist

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: Writer

Antonia Carver: Director, Art Dubai

Ibraaz

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Hiwa K.

Fayçal Baghriche

Nancy Atakan

Katia Kameli: Untitled (2011)

The Future Was a Roundabout

Christodoulos Panayiotou

Louis Henderson

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Paris Without a Sea: Mounira Al Solh

Sama Alshaibi

A tribute by Gelareh Kiazand

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

Sama Alshaibi

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain

Nation Estate

A Space Exodus

Larissa Sansour

Ammar Al-Beik

Bouchra Khalili

Filipa César and Louis Henderson

Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Basir Mahmood

Deceptive Authoritarianisms: Between Artificial and Discredited Personhoods

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)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Edited by Anthony Downey (Walther König Verlag, 2017)

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Cevdet Erek in conversation with Başak Şenova

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

A two-part conversation with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

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Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Reema Salha Fadda

Contour Biennale 8

Notes on Geo-cultural Exhibitions

Stephanie Bailey

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Art By Email at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Meeting Points 8

On Qalandiya International 2016 in Ramallah

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

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

Nil Yalter at ARTER, Istanbul

Closing Remarks

Halil Altındere at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Inspired by calligraphy

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Etel Adnan at Serpentine Galleries

Gülsün Karamustafa Retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof

Rayyane Tabet at Museo Marino Marini

The Artist as Awakener at AUB

The 9th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ibraaz 5th Year Anniversary Editorial

Rozemin Keshvani

The 37th EVA International

On Assumption and Authority

Organic Growth and the Rise of Visual Arts Organizations in the UAE

Barrak Alzaid

What are the urgent questions affecting cultural production in Turkey? I am writing from the perspective of Turkey, rather than the perspective of the Middle East and North Africa in general...

The varying political, cultural and economic circumstances of the participants of Art Dubai 2016, Design Days and the March Meeting, merit further consideration, as it is the differences among them that highlight the current constraints and opportunities for cultural production in the region.

As a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle Eastern art, I am concerned with the urgent questions facing cultural production as well as those facing histories of cultural production. My response below reflects that concern.

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.

To answer this question I propose an excerpt from a text in progress called 'Art and Garbage'. This piece is intended to look into the relation between urgent social problems – in this case the ongoing garbage crisis in Lebanon – and contemporary art.

There is never a neutral position for critique, but there certainly ought to be the practice of critique. And that is precisely the element that is missing in top-down formation of the art scene in West Asia and North Africa, and perhaps in the rest of the non-western art scene.

The development of a healthy regional Arab art scene, like anywhere else in the world, requires the collaborative efforts of the different components that constitute it.

On Walking and Crawling

An Introduction to Body Art and Performance in the Gulf

The Little Deaths of Christodoulos Panayiotou

Genealogy of a Territory at MuCEM, Marseille

Green Art Gallery

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète

Vartan Avakian at Marfa’

The performative in the work of Hassan Khan

Notes on Maverickism as Genealogy and Genealogy as Approach

The 14th Istanbul Biennial 2015

The 13th Biennale de Lyon

Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will

A Review of the 56th Venice Biennale

Adel Abidin presents Subway Scene (2015).

'The following considerations on performance as an artistic medium in the region of North Africa and Middle East refer to more general problems that relate to the art form's status as an institutionalized aesthetic practice...'

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Practice, Performance, Politics

For Ibraaz Platform 009, Hassan Darsi presents a photo essay.

'To avoid misunderstanding, I write from the perspective of Turkey, because I can't really speak for North Africa nor for the Middle East in general...'

'A few notes on the difference between performance art and mayonnaise...'

Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible

'Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity' at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Narratives and Ghosts from the International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978, at MACBA

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Natasha Ginwala

Notes on a Giant Implosion

Rana ElNemr at the American University in Cairo’s Sharjah Art Gallery

Five Stages of an Artist Residency

On Bouchra Khalili’s Cartographies

On Nikolaj Larsen's End of Dreams

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

The Cultural Centre of the Philippines opened to great political fanfare on 10 September 1969, with a ceremony that was graced by none less than California Governor Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy acting on the orders of President Nixon.

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.

The term 'Global South' is quite new to me – but since my practice is concerned with the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the impact colonialism has on today's power structures I find it obvious that the concept of the 'Global South' is of great relevance in my...

The group of paintings is inspired by 'momentary images' or more accurately frozen moments taken from the contemporary cityscape of Egypt, as well as from personal records; old photographs found in family albums.

A Provocation to the Question

A Recourse to the Past

Building Institutions Through Practice

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

Re-routing Institutional Critique

Art and Culture Beyond Institutions in Amman

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?

In the Shadow of Nasser

Global Art Forum 8 at Katara Art Center

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Mounira Al Solh at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut

Imagining the Future, Assembling the Past

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

Or, Severing History From the Person

"Neither identification with an institution nor disengagement from an institution guarantees fluid, sensitive attitudes and openmindedness."

'By producing an idea of the future, art transgresses official history and produces its own reality.'

'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.'

'The future of arts looks promising, but it also risks looking stale if we're not too careful. I will concentrate here on what I think are important considerations in the shaping of spaces of encounter.'

'When one speaks of 'art infrastructures', it is crucial to recognize that infrastructures are, most importantly, people...and one of the most critical and urgent needs is for arts education.'

'Better imagine now, rather than later.'

'The future of art infrastructures in the region is still very much determined by pre-existing cultural misconceptions applied to audiences... During the last four years in Cairo, I've witnessed in several occasions how part of the audience has been marginalized according to nationality, class, race or economic income.'

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

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

Maryam Jafri at Gasworks

Cevdet Erek at Spike Island, Bristol

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

A Review

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

Almagul Menlibayeva

Abdullah Al-Mutairi

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Oreet Ashery

(The Differences Between The Parts Are The Subject of The Composition)

Eric Baudelaire

Santiago Mostyn

Taus Makhacheva

Malak Helmy

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Nikolaj Larsen

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Basma Alsharif

Mounira Al Solh

Hera Büyüktaşçıyan

Rosana Palazyan

Ariel Hassan

Youmna Chlala

Meriç Algün Ringborg

Uriel Orlow

Leung Chi Wo

Aikaterini Gegisian

Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

Shezad Dawood

Isak Berbic

Caline Aoun

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Azin Feizabadi

Iman Issa

Jasmina Metwaly

Thoughts on Art and Art Discourse

Medrar .TV

Adelita Husni-Bey

Wafaa Bilal at Maraya Art Park, Sharjah

Elif Öner and Vincent Rozenberg

Setareh Shahbazi

Notes from three spaces in which the law resounds

An online archive by Lucien Samaha

A project by Ali Cherri

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A project by Maha Maamoun

A project by Katia Kameli

The Circus (2)

A Story of an Exhibition

On the Rooftop

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

Basak Senova on Zeren Göktan's Counter (2013)

Hans Haacke

Sophia Al-Maria

Raed Yassin

Lasse Lau

Cynthia Zaven

Adelita Husni-Bey

A Project by Robin Kahn

A Video Game Mausoleum for Bashar al-Assad

Documenting the Backlash

A Project by Lara Baladi with an introduction by Dorothea Schoene

An Image of a Revolution

Elevator Advertisements

Mahmoud Khaled

Naira Antoun

Makan

Dream Homes and Community-building

Roy Samaha

Yousef Moscatello

A Story in Parts

A project by Tom Bogaert for Ibraaz

Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom in Syria

A project by Yousef Moscatello

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

A Project by Anahita Razmi

Transition, a photographic series by Myriam Abdelaziz

Two Projects by Sinisa Vlajkovic

Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

Isak Berbic

A Project by Saba Innab

A Project by Dictaphone Group

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

A Libyan Diary (Part III) - December 2011

A Libyan Diary (Part II) - November 2011

Mustapha Benfodil

Lina Khatib

Khaled Hafez

Nikolaj Larsen

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Marwa Arsanios

Batroun Projects

On Presidents & Superheroes

Dalia Khamissy

Francesco Jodice

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,...

Mahmoud Bakhshi

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Shadi Habib Allah

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Zamir Suleymanov

The Society of False Witnesses

Basma Alsharif

Morehshin Allahyari

Kamal Aljafari

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Setareh Shahbazi

Amira Hanafi

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Tahrir Archives

Dena Al-Adeeb

Ahmed Badry

Maya Chami

Tom Bogaert

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind

Zoukak Theatre Company

Sohrab Kashani

Meriem Bennani

Yazan Khalili Lara Khaldi

An Online Performance

Seth Ayyaz

Burak Delier

Urok Shirhan

Adham Faramawy

Hassan Khan

Hasan Hujairi

Joe Namy

Helene Kazan

Samah Hijawi

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?

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.

...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 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...

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

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...

The 4th Thessaloniki Biennale

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

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

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

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

Meem Gallery, Dubai

Profiles: Collecting Art in Lebanon at AUB Gallery, Lebanon

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

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

Shifting the Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing

What if Rani al Rajji and Michel De Certeau met in Beirut?

Gulf Labor

Sharjah Biennial 11 – Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi at Chisenhale Gallery

The Problem of Nationality

A Talk and Screening by Shabbir Hussain Mustafa

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the word 'demand' seems to be the key word of the poll. In relation to a 'globalised cultural economy' it refers to the core term of economics that is used to rationalise the development of prices. Talking about 'demands of news media, journalism, cultural...

Basim Magdy, 13 Essential Rules for Understanding the World , 2011, super 8 film transferred to HD video, 5 min. 16 sec. Courtesy the artist and Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York.

Introduction

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

Khalil Rabah: Pages 7, 8, 9 at e-flux

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

What has Changed in Tunisia since Spring 2011

On the Memory of a Memorial

A New Communal Model

The Shifting Narrative of Uprising

The Impossibilities of Production in New Media

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...

A significant component of Sada's programming provides seminars, lectures, and workshops to young, emerging artists and students in Baghdad. We do this using basic Internet connection, Skype, some simple software, and a projector. A private Facebook group is the site of extensive conversations, critique and debate. This was not done...

New media's role as an agent for social change in the MENA region has been somewhat sensationalised by mainstream media in referring to recent incidents of unrest as 'Facebook' or 'Twitter revolutions'. Whether used for the purpose of social exchange or as part of an artistic practice, real-time communication and...

vs. The Ruler was made during the first year of the Arab uprising. It is comprised of two custom-made wooden 'electrocution' chairs (thrones) sitting in opposition to each other. The patriarchal male throne suggests the military and religion. Its counterpart is also suggestive of Islamic architecture, but is grounded by...

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

As a politically engaged artist, I have to believe that artistic practices do have the potential to offer insights and negotiate anything from the demands of cultural institutions to politics and the ideals of civil society. Without such a belief, the entire foundation of what I do would be rattled....

I am broadly interested in addressing the recontextualisation of cultural heritage in the MENA region by institutions, thus aligning it in the process with current developments in contemporary art at large. Artistic practices are frequently used to measure the economic and cultural growth of geographies. This is often achieved by...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Cultural Institutions, Urban Development, and Regional Cinema in the Gulf Today

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

From Brute Ornament: Seher Shah's Recent Drawings

Cultural institutions in Turkey are divided into those run by the state, local governments and private sectors; each have different culture policies and no significant collaborative policies. Contemporary art productions and practices are based in Istanbul and are dependent on private sector investments, rather than official funds. Compared to the...

'The young conservatives embrace the fundamental experience of aesthetic modernity – the disclosure of a de-centered subjectivity, freed from all constraints of rational cognition and purposiveness, from all imperatives of labour and utility – and in this way break out of the modern world. They transpose the spontaneous power of...

Yazan Khalili

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Raafat Ishak 1 November 2011 Raafat Ishak Mount Appeal, 2011 Acrylic on MDF 65 x 50 cm Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne '> Raafat Ishak Mount Appeal, 2011 Acrylic on MDF 65...

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Newsha Tavakolian 1 November 2011 Newsha Tavakolian, 2011 Photograph Courtesy of the artist 7: Members of the voluntary paramilitary force, the baseej, shot and killed one man and wounded others in a one million strong...

As far as I can see, there is little room for blind people and too much space for those who don’t listen.

The scale of the resistance among the people of the MENA region in the last year will remain an example in contemporary history. This resistance expresses a desire to build new ground and another social entity, which up till now has been latent. The clear desire is to build a...

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Fayçal Baghriche 1 November 2011 Fayçal Baghriche, Mekka, 2011, photograph, 120 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist. ' title=' Fayçal Baghriche, Mekka, 2011, photograph, 120 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist. '> Fayçal...

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...

Walking in the Darkness of a Promised Light

Raymond Baker

Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs

Mayssa Fattouh

The Middle East is not a safe place. It is either the source of news, or the witness of strange incidents. Its streets and cities are under the threat of suicidal terrorists and of tribal religious wars. The Middle East is unpredictable: its aging dictators fall overnight, its borders have...

Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation

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