ArteZine

ArteZine is a quarterly online publication produced by ArteEast. It is structured around a theme, chosen by the guest editor and outlined in their introduction. This theme is then supported and elaborated on by up to 4 contributions from artists/critics/scholars of the guest editors choosing.

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Fall 2017

KADER ATTIA AND LA COLONIE: The Art of Reappropriation

A black and white photograph captured in secret. In the foreground, it is impossible to distinguish blurred facial features of a young man who does not dare to reveal his gaze. There is a modesty in the revelation and impression of the subject. This is the image of exile that makes one away from themselves……

Fall 2017

Shifts and Measures: A Brief Overview of Art Events in West Asia

Maymanah Farhat

By Maymanah Farhat Fall 2017 | ArteZine Decades ago—in the absence of art fairs, commercial galleries, independent arts organizations, private collections, and government initiatives artists in the Arabic-speaking countries of West Asia planned exhibitions, symposiums, workshops, and biennials. In addition to contributing artworks, they formed curatorial committees, acted as jurors for art prizes; worked as fundraisers;…

Fall 2017

İz Öztat and Fatma Belkıs: Who Carries The Water

“I’ll give my life, I won’t give up my water!” cries a voice (dubbed “Crone Who Went to the SHP”) in the publication that Istanbul-based artists İz Öztat and Fatma Belkıs penned as part of their collaborative project Who Carries The Water. The research-based installation was initially commissioned by the 14th Istanbul Biennial in 2015, having its…

Winter 2014

Propaganda, Aesthetics and Ruptures

Adham Hafez

By Adham Hafez Winter 2014 | ArteZine This publication deals thematically with ruptures in a given artistic practice or within a country’s arts history, with special attention to power dynamics in the art world. As a consequence it also deals with propaganda and the role of the state in shaping certain dynamics of power. HaRaKa operates…

Winter 2014

Reconstituting Identities: Performing Propaganda 1958-1965

Ismail Fayed

By Ismail Fayed Winter 2014 | ArteZine There is a certain weariness among Egyptians living now under the rule of a complicit and corrupt military regime. A survey of recent social media and online platforms reveals that attempts at “propaganda” are commonly judged to be somewhere between “pitiful” and “disgusting”, and inspire an intense negative emotional…

Winter 2014

Reda Troupe: Once a Gambler, Always a Backbone

Sawsan Gad

By Sawsan Gad Winter 2014 | ArteZine The Reda Troupe is an iconic Egyptian dance company that survived six decades of Egyptian political history, and Egyptian dance history. The company produced work that raised questions on contemporaneity and tradition, as well as on what are the references of Arab and Egyptian modernism in dance and performance,…

Winter 2014

Resi[lience]stance

Abdullah Al-Bayyari

By Abdullah Al-Bayyari Winter 2014 | ArteZine One of the first goals of state power, is in controlling the body by direct engineering of the containing space and time. It is often one of the most common scenes to be performed by the stifling regime. (the term “regime” here does not only refer to the political…

Winter 2014

Shame

Adham Hafez

By Adham Hafez Winter 2014 | ArteZine On ruptures and new shifts in the artistic practice of Egyptian visual artist Shayma Aziz “The painting flashed one night through my head, as I was in my studio in Cairo. I was passing some time reflecting on old works of mine, studying how I used to see things”….

Summer 2014

A Fan’s Zine

Fiona McGovern

By Fiona McGovern Summer 2014 | ArteZine Her long-term friend and collaborator Jutta Koether, once wrote that artist and musician Kim Gordon is “if at all, a fragile super special chick (based on a decision), who plays bass, pushes for improvisation, one who knows and loves the history of the chicks in music and by that…

Summer 2014

Spinal Jetty

Brian William Rogers

By Brian William Rogers Summer 2014, 2016 | ArteZine The zine has always had an air of conspiracy theory about it: it’s not difficult to imagine the disarticulated contents of zines– obsessive, selective, forensic snapshots of cultural second-gunmen — redistributed as the autodidact’s bedroom diagram, found typically either in the apartments of detectives or of serial…

ArteZine

ArteZine is a quarterly online publication produced by ArteEast. It is structured around a theme, chosen by the guest editor and outlined in their introduction. This theme is then supported and elaborated on by up to 4 contributions from artists/critics/scholars of the guest editors choosing.

KADER ATTIA AND LA COLONIE: The Art of Reappropriation

Shifts and Measures: A Brief Overview of Art Events in West Asia