Winter 2012
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…
Delfina Foundation
By ArteEast and Delfina Foundation Winter 2012 | ArteZine This resource manual offers readers a brief overview of online platforms and print sources relevant to understanding residencies and the social, cultural and political contexts in which they function. International conferences and symposia have assembled to tighten networks of institutions, and web-based platforms have started to disseminate audio and video…
Dina Ibrahim
By Dina Ibrahim Winter 2012 | Gallery This edition of the gallery examines the works of artist Abbas Akhavan from various critical perspectives that delineate between capitalist processes of production and social interventions while examining the role of architecture and space in shaping an artwork’s impact on audiences. Dina Ibrahim’s essay departs from where the previous…
Shumon Basar
By Shumon Basar Winter 2012 | Gallery How much did it cost? What’s it worth? Ah the familiar prods we proffer and are asked everyday about the value of things. True, this is just one measure of value – the monetary one, the one we write with numbers not letters, in a myriad of currencies convertible…
Dina Ibrahim, Mohammad Salemy
By Dina Ibrahim Winter 2012 | Gallery It is innocuous to assume that Abbas Akhavan’s process of art making directly implicates the space of the exhibition. However, as much as it is redolent that the architectural materials, including the gallery wall or the room’s physical interior, often constitute the very medium of his work, it is…
Dina Ibrahim, Abbas Akhavan
By Dina Ibrahim and Abbas Akhavan Winter 2012 | Gallery Abbas Akhavan’s works enact broader social conditions while simultaneously expanding the purview for actions indexed by the architecture of the piece. His site-specific installations and videos delve into the social realm to produce or recreate meaning, and in a larger sense reality. From this perspective, the dynamic and…
Abbas Akhavan
By ArteEast Winter 2012 | Gallery ‘Study for a Garden’ (2012) A site-specific installation at the Delfina Foundation,London, UK. Born in Tehran, Abbas Akhavan currently lives and works in Toronto. His practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video and performance. For the past five years, the domestic sphere has been an ongoing area of research in Akhavan’s…
Fall 2012
Alya Sebti
By Alya Sebti Fall 2012 | Gallery Defined as what is “happening or used daily,” the everyday shapes that comprise Younes Baba Ali’s work reflects their quotidian use and simultaneously diverts everyday objects from this normative use. In doing so he also stands up against an elitist art to create artworks that target the everyday man…
Ceren Erdem
By Ceren Erdem, Editor Fall 2012 | ArteZine Perhaps for the first time in modern history, Euro-America finds itself in a situation where it may potentially lose to other states its authority to determine who is included in economic, political, and military alliances. As this centrality, entangled with modernity and postmodernity, is ceded in favor of…
Zdenka Badovinac
By Zdenka Badovinac Fall 2012 | ArteZine The site of cultural production, be it a museum, institution or exhibition, offers an instructive look at how paradigm shifts affect cultural production. Two sites in Eastern Europe reveal the role politics and culture conspire to shape society’s understanding of its own history, as well as the way that…
