Spring 2012
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
By Kaelen Wilson Goldie Spring 2012 | ArteZine Censorship is rarely as simple or straightforward as it seems. For one thing, it is rarely done by a person whose job title is actually that of the censor (and in case you haven’t seen Babak Afrassiabi’s five-channel video installation “Conversing the Cut,” from 2004, about censorship in…
Sohrab Kashani
By Sohrab Kashani Spring 2012 | ArteZine Heroism & Patronage – The Summit
Media Farzin, Sohrab Mahdavi
By Media Farzin and Sohrab Mahdavi Spring 2012 | ArteZine A Conversation between Sohrab Mahdavi and Media Farzin on TehranAvenue.com TehranAvenue.com (TA) was one of the earliest websites to devote itself to writing about the city of Tehran. Sohrab Mahdavi, whom I draw into a conversation here, was one of the co-founders and in many ways its driving…
Slavs & Tatars
By Slavs and Tatars Spring 2012 | ArteZine Embrace Your Antithesis The spreads from the preceding pages are taken from Molla Nasreddin, a weekly political satire that ran from 1906 thru 1930, first in Tbilisi, briefly in Tabriz in northern Iran, before settling down in Baku. One of the most important periodicals of the Muslim world…
Dina Ibrahim
By Dina Ibrahim Spring 2012 | ArteZine Featured Artist Collective: Slavs and Tatars Slavs and TatarsNations (2009) In this gallery, which features artist collective Slavs and Tatars, we look closely at the works’ capacity to embody or enact reality by developing notions of performativity in language and text-based artwork. This edition of the ArteEast Gallery follows…
Nicholas Cullinan
By Nicholas Cullinan Spring 2012 | Gallery MODERNITY, MONOBROWS and MONOTHEISM: These are just a few of the concerns of Slavs and Tatars, a collective dedicated to examining the region “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China,” as they so neatly put it. Founded in 2006 and consisting of…
Sandra Skurvida
By Sandra Skurvida Spring 2012 | ArteZine The figure of “censorship” conjures up a smoke screen of antagonism that can only be dispelled by looking through it. Cause célèbre of censorship at Sharjah Biennial 2011, among many less publicized instances, gave a strong pretext for a critical investigation; it also called for a consideration in terms…
Negar Mottahedeh
By Negar Mottahedeh Spring 2012 | ArteZine The cry of “Allah-o-Akbar” was the defining sound of the 1978 protests against the Shah of Iran, during a revolution that toppled the Pahlavi monarchy and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Shah’s prime minister Major General Gholam Reza Azhari attributed, in 1978, the cry of “Allah-o-Akbar” from…
Fall 2011
Shuruq Harb
By Shuruq Harb Fall 2011 | ArteZine What is inscribed in a name? Whether it is a name of a person that you can’t get out of your head, or the quirky name of an important file that you hope you won’t forget. I don’t know when and how my fixation with names started. It must…
Leah Gordon
By Leah Gordon Fall 2011 | ArteZine As I board a plane to Stockholm to give a lecture at the Museum of Ethnography I ponder upon the perhaps preposterous idea of walking a BILL in Stockholm as a kind of homage (or counter homage) to Bill Drummond’s essay, ‘A Smell of Money Under Ground’, published in…
