Winter 2014
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…
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…
Fall 2014
Nada Ayari
By Nada Ayari Fall 2014 | Gallery Two summers ago in a restaurant on Center Street in New York City, a line from a ‘90s hit song turned into a concept for a group show. I was sitting with some friends arguing the morality of the art world’s fast rallying around Pussy Riot as the Syrian…
Summer 2014
Hisham Awad, Ghalya Saadawi
By Ghalya Saadawi and Hisham Awad Summer 2014 | ArteZine The initial impetus behind this issue was to reflect on the fanzine as a format. Embedded within histories of self-publishing, niche and underground groups, fandom, pop and rock idols, or even further political pamphlets, zines have fed and resulted from science fiction, comics, punk, queer, feminist imaginaries, and DIY…
Leila Pourtavaf
By Leila Pourtavaf Summer 2014 | ArteZine In the increasingly monopolized world of mainstream media, it is imperative that works that challenge the status quo, affirm the lives of their creators, and problematize corporate control over the media are available to the widest audience possible. [i] Bookmobile Collective, 2001 The here and now is a prison house. We…
Steven Warwick
By Steven Warwick Summer 2014 | ArteZine These images have been repurposed to unlock and re-engineer associative thought processes attributed to branding. Familiar motifs collide with contrasting, suggestive phrases. Visual associative cues emerge. Form the bond between message and feeling! Join in and participate!
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…
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…
Spring 2014
Hrayr Eulmessekian
By Hrayr Eulmessekian Spring 2014 | ArteZine Armenians have had a complex relationship with the Arab world, especially in Lebanon. Remnants of Aghed the Catastrophe of 1895-1923 [i], meandered there in waves, reconstituting their lost cities over the new geography of a country yet to be born. The more affluent settled in the francophone center of Beirut,…
Ara Azad
By Ara Azad Spring 2014 | ArteZine The Lebanese witnessed 15 years of civil war and subsequent decades of random cruelty and political violence. During the lengthy years of the country’s reconstruction no effort was spared to conceal the physical traces of the war, yet its survivors were left uncared for, asked to rise from the…
