Spring 2012
Slavs & Tatars
By Slavs and Tatars Spring 2012 | ArteZine Embrace Your Antithesis The spreads from the preceding pages are taken from Molla Nasreddin, a weekly political satire that ran from 1906 thru 1930, first in Tbilisi, briefly in Tabriz in northern Iran, before settling down in Baku. One of the most important periodicals of the Muslim world…
Dina Ibrahim
By Dina Ibrahim Spring 2012 | ArteZine Featured Artist Collective: Slavs and Tatars Slavs and TatarsNations (2009) In this gallery, which features artist collective Slavs and Tatars, we look closely at the works’ capacity to embody or enact reality by developing notions of performativity in language and text-based artwork. This edition of the ArteEast Gallery follows…
Nicholas Cullinan
By Nicholas Cullinan Spring 2012 | Gallery MODERNITY, MONOBROWS and MONOTHEISM: These are just a few of the concerns of Slavs and Tatars, a collective dedicated to examining the region “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China,” as they so neatly put it. Founded in 2006 and consisting of…
Sandra Skurvida
By Sandra Skurvida Spring 2012 | ArteZine The figure of “censorship” conjures up a smoke screen of antagonism that can only be dispelled by looking through it. Cause célèbre of censorship at Sharjah Biennial 2011, among many less publicized instances, gave a strong pretext for a critical investigation; it also called for a consideration in terms…
Fall 2011
Shuruq Harb
By Shuruq Harb Fall 2011 | ArteZine What is inscribed in a name? Whether it is a name of a person that you can’t get out of your head, or the quirky name of an important file that you hope you won’t forget. I don’t know when and how my fixation with names started. It must…
Leah Gordon
By Leah Gordon Fall 2011 | ArteZine As I board a plane to Stockholm to give a lecture at the Museum of Ethnography I ponder upon the perhaps preposterous idea of walking a BILL in Stockholm as a kind of homage (or counter homage) to Bill Drummond’s essay, ‘A Smell of Money Under Ground’, published in…
Barney Kulok
By Barney Kulok Fall 2011 | ArteZine “In vain, great-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this…
Guy Tillim
By Guy Tillim Fall 2011 | ArteZine I was born into a landscape that became unfamiliar as I grew to know it. The mirror of my mind’s eye transposed political play into flickering stage. The impulse to photograph this stage is less an attempt to anchor the scenery than to situate myself. These photographs are not…
Leora Maltz-Leca
By Leora Maltz-Leca Fall 2011 | ArteZine Colonial-era governor of Quelimane, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Quelimane, Mozambique, 2008©Guy Tillim. Courtesy of STEVENSON, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Once a street photographer who sought to capture the violence of the moment in African cities like Johannesburg, Guy Tillim now seeks the richer, more muted tensions of the lull between:…
By Dina Ibrahim Fall 2011 | Gallery Architectural Psychology Babak Golkar’s concept-driven artistic practice extends effortlessly across diverse medium, ranging from drawing, video, sculpture and site-specific installation while maintaining focus in its subjects and issues addressed. His work primarily explores the psychological effects on the observer resulting from the use of architecture. Golkar sees architectural structures…
