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What role can the archive play in developing and sustaining a critical and culturally located art history?
Akira Mizuta Lippit, in <em>Atomic Light (Shadow Optics), </em>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...
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Can Artistic Practices Negotiate the Demands of Cultural Institutions, Public Space, and Civil Society?
Yes, artistic practices can offer insights into those things – but need they? Many artists in the region deftly wield smart institutional critique without breaking a sweat. But why not pass that responsibility to the audiences for their work? I think the best way to develop civil society is not...