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“One people, one plight.” Photo: Sarah Carr, January 7.
Winter 2010
Hakan Topal
By Hakan Topal Winter 2010 | ArteZine ARCHIVES AND MEMORIALS AS SILENT TESTIMONIESNational states rely on memories of victories, heroes and their leaders. In order to register a specific event, memorials are often cast in bronze, poured concrete or carved in marble. Texts are inscribed in bold letters commemorating a loss, a success or a major…
Cevdet Erek
By Cevdet Erek Winter 2010 | ArteZine Banner image by Emel Ernalbant via. Tinnitus (tinnio for ringing, an onomatopoeia in Latin) is an internal sound which someone hears in the absence of an external sound. You can hear it after a very loud concert or after surviving a car bomb explosion. Waking up to a new day, a…
Aslihan Demirtas
By Aslihan Demirtas Winter 2010 | ArteZine So, the stone falls on the city, the earth quakes and thus shakes our walls and our constructed certainties; nature bursts in on the citizen, who believes only in the assurances provided by human labor and by the political order or police. [1] SHEEP A friend [2] of mine once shared a…
Anne Barlow
By Anne Barlow Winter 2010 | ArteZine I have never fully experienced silence until Antarctica. Having isolated myself from the group I was with, I came to realize that I could hear absolutely nothing. The sense of stillness in itself was at once peaceful and overwhelming. One’s natural instincts are to strain to hear, to find…
Regine Basha
By Regine Basha Winter 2010 | ArteZine Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing archive of live video performances, audio clips and historical information on Iraqi Jewish musicians and the music scene that was displaced from Baghdad in the late 1940s. As an alternative to making a linear documentary film, the website features four video chapters along…
Mirene Arsanios
By Mirene Arsanios Winter 2010 | Gallery How to make (nice) things happen probes the non-for profit, research based and process oriented initiatives within Beirut’s increasingly layered art scene and infrastructure. The magazine uncovers how these initiatives operate as well as their potential to produce multiple and varied forms of knowledge. The following pages explore the…
By Hakan Topal Winter 2010 | ArteZine This issue is edited by Hakan Topal with contributions by Defne Ayas, Anne Barlow, Regine Basha, Dan Cameron, Aslihan Demirtas, Cevdet Erek, Tony Chakar and Micah Silver. Together, these authors discuss the possibilities and limitations of the condition of silence by looking at examples in art, music and across…
Fall 2010
Micah Silver
By Micah Silver Fall 2010 | ArteZine [silence is sexy] [supercomputing rapture] [advanced silencing system] Summations, peculiar triangulation, and all forms of fundamentalist adherence to a singular (period) are rejected by the elegant, seeping liquidity within the notion of silence. It’s a sublimely subversive quality for a word and it’s baggage to so lithely slither away,…
Summer 2010
Ursula Biemann
By Ursula Biemann Summer 2010 | ArteZine For the longest time we have thought of extra-territoriality as a designated space or status that lies outside territorial boundaries and either benefits or suffers from the suspension of jurisdiction overruling the national territory. Embassies, refugee camps, free trade zones are a few cases in point. In recent years,…
