Winter 2012
DAM
By DAM Winter 2012 | ArteZine Ahmad Hosni was among the first group of resident artists at Dar Al-Ma’mûn (DAM) in 2010-11. This transcript is an excerpt of a conversation between Carleen Hamon and Julien Amicel, co-directors of Dar Al-Ma’mûn (DAM), with photographer Ahmad Hosni who was among their first group of resident artists in 2010-11. DAM: Could you…
Todd Lester
By Todd Lester Winter 2012 | ArteZine freeDimensional works with the global arts community to identify and redistribute resources, and support meaningful relationships between art spaces and activists. freeDimensional delivers services that connect arts residencies and human rights organizations to demonstrate and share a specific method, both as an example of discrete utility and a model…
By ArteEast Winter 2012 | ArteZine We asked six artists to share their stories. Lotfi NiaAlgiers > Dar Al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech La Fabrique des Traducteurs (The Translators’ Workshop) was a professional training program initiated by the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires (International College of Literary Translators) and supported by, among others, the Centre National du Livre…
Fall 2012
Özge Ersoy
By Özge Ersoy Fall 2012 | ArteZine Contemporary art collections and museums are in a state of flux. In the last twenty years, private collectors have gained enormous visibility, and now have the strength not only to manipulate the art market but also to lead art institutions and influence the circulation of art works around the…
Charles Esche
By Charles Esche Fall 2012 | ArteZine What happens when a painting crosses cultural and political borders? Does it change its meaning en route? Do certain places have different potential to excite responses from a work of art? Taking a 1943 Picasso painting from Eindhoven to Ramallah involved two years of planning and negotiation including experiences…
Haig Aivazian
By Haig Aivazian Fall 2012 | ArteZine Six-Shooter Lessons: The 12 Clint Eastwoods Project is a multi-layered narrative structure in the form of a lecture performance, examining the first American basketball team of professionals allowed to participate in the first post-Soviet games of Barcelona in 1992. This narrative is overlayed onto United States’ military involvement in Iraq….
Ceren Erdem, Michael Rakowitz
By Michael Rakowitz and Ceren Erdem Fall 2012 | ArteZine TWO OF USTHE LONG AND WINDING ROADDON’T LET ME DOWNGET BACKLET IT BE Ceren Erdem: Your contribution to The Jerusalem Show culminates in a performance featuring celebrated Palestinian rock band Sabreen playing five Arabic inflected Beatles songs, selected and ordered to form a kind of poem about collaboration and…
Murtaza Vali
By Murtaza Vali Fall 2012 | ArteZine What does it feel like to belong to a Gulf? What does it mean to dwell in a chasm? How does one commune in an abyss? For those thousands of expatriates who have grown up in the United Arab Emirates, many born as resident aliens knowing no other home,…
Anthony Downey
By Anthony Downey Fall 2012 | ArteZine “Doing art means displacing art’s borders, just as doing politics means displacing the borders of what is acknowledged as the political … “ Jacques Rancière , “The Paradoxes of Political Art”, in Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, ed. and trans. By Steve Corcoran (Continuum: London, 2012), pp. 134-151 (p….
By Haig Aivazian Fall 2012 | ArteZine “Okay, the stadium went to Afghanistan. So, if the stadium was given to Afghanistan, then when the Afghanis are playing in it, where are they?” – Nida Ghouse.(1) In a country where the South Asian community makes up close to 50% of the population, it is unsurprising that cricket…
