Fall 2013
Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi, Berenice Saliou, Yasmina Reggad
By Alya Sebti, Wafa Gabsi, Berenice Saliou and Yasmina Reggad Fall 2013 | ArteZine This issue marks the fifth installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Virtual Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to…
Dictaphone Group
By Dictaphone Group Fall 2013 | ArteZine “The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city more after our heart’s desire… The freedom to make and remake our cities is one of the most precious yet most neglected…
By Dictaphone Group Fall 2013 | ArteZine We met Abu Hussein when we were sitting once at Abu Adal’s kiosk in “Dalieh” in Beirut. He told us that he is one of the ten fishermen who were evicted from their sea-front rooms that were located under the Grand Café, a café on the southern coast of…
Dictaphone Group, Dia Saleh
By Dictaphone Group and Dia Saleh Fall 2013 | ArteZine “The sea was neither stolen, nor looted (manhouba).It was bestowed (mawhouba)” Perched on a bench next to a rickety wooden fisherman’s hut by the sea, sits a man in his 60s, wearing a grin and traditional white Bahraini headscarf. Only ten years ago, if the bench stayed where…
Summer 2013
Beirut
By Beirut Summer 2013 | ArteZine As we write, people in Istanbul protest the demolition of Taksim Gezi park. L’Internationale, a new European Museum Confederation, makes its first statement in relation to the events. In Cairo, “cultural intellectuals” have claimed the Minister of Culture’s office, in a performance-filled sit-in for a fortnight – and ongoing; in…
Mohammed Abdallah
By Mohammed Abdallah Summer 2013 | ArteZine Picture the sea (or take to it). If this proves to be difficult, then picture this: millions of Muslim pilgrims from all around the world flock to the same spot, at the same hour every year, to start a sequence of procession that lasts for days in perfect synchronicity,…
Art In General
By Art In General Summer 2013 | ArteZine What is it to inherit an institution, with all its history, and an identity that exists at a given moment, but that is just one in a longer life of histories – an organic event unfolding over time, both before and after us? How can it be re-imagined,…
By Beirut Summer 2013, 2016 | ArteZine Think of the difference between a knife and a 20-dollar bill. Now, think of the difference between a knife and a 20-dollar bill. [i] Institutional reality[ii] increases power, and by increasing institutional reality, we increase human capacity for action. John suggests that presupposing the institution of language (and economy) is precisely…
Form Content
By Form Content Summer 2013 | ArteZine Less than a year ago, I found myself at an artist’s talk held in a well-respected, small institution in East London. I can see now how the expression ‘to find oneself’ might introduce an element of chance in the equation describing my ‘being there’ – an element, I have…
Kunsthalle Lissabon
By Kunsthalle Lissabon Summer 2013 | ArteZine We understand institutions (at large, not only art institutions) always in terms of the act of instituting. In that sense, institutions can be defined as sets of social (and, therefore, fundamentally subjective) protocols (rules) that prescribe and normalize not only behavior but also, and maybe more importantly, perception. We…
