Fall 2011
Barney Kulok
By Barney Kulok Fall 2011 | ArteZine “In vain, great-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this…
Guy Tillim
By Guy Tillim Fall 2011 | ArteZine I was born into a landscape that became unfamiliar as I grew to know it. The mirror of my mind’s eye transposed political play into flickering stage. The impulse to photograph this stage is less an attempt to anchor the scenery than to situate myself. These photographs are not…
Leora Maltz-Leca
By Leora Maltz-Leca Fall 2011 | ArteZine Colonial-era governor of Quelimane, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Quelimane, Mozambique, 2008©Guy Tillim. Courtesy of STEVENSON, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Once a street photographer who sought to capture the violence of the moment in African cities like Johannesburg, Guy Tillim now seeks the richer, more muted tensions of the lull between:…
Dina Ibrahim
By Dina Ibrahim Fall 2011 | Gallery Architectural Psychology Babak Golkar’s concept-driven artistic practice extends effortlessly across diverse medium, ranging from drawing, video, sculpture and site-specific installation while maintaining focus in its subjects and issues addressed. His work primarily explores the psychological effects on the observer resulting from the use of architecture. Golkar sees architectural structures…
Spring 2011
“One people, one plight.” Photo: Sarah Carr, January 7.
Winter 2010
Aslihan Demirtas
By Aslihan Demirtas Winter 2010 | ArteZine So, the stone falls on the city, the earth quakes and thus shakes our walls and our constructed certainties; nature bursts in on the citizen, who believes only in the assurances provided by human labor and by the political order or police. [1] SHEEP A friend [2] of mine once shared a…
Anne Barlow
By Anne Barlow Winter 2010 | ArteZine I have never fully experienced silence until Antarctica. Having isolated myself from the group I was with, I came to realize that I could hear absolutely nothing. The sense of stillness in itself was at once peaceful and overwhelming. One’s natural instincts are to strain to hear, to find…
Regine Basha
By Regine Basha Winter 2010 | ArteZine Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing archive of live video performances, audio clips and historical information on Iraqi Jewish musicians and the music scene that was displaced from Baghdad in the late 1940s. As an alternative to making a linear documentary film, the website features four video chapters along…
Mirene Arsanios
By Mirene Arsanios Winter 2010 | Gallery How to make (nice) things happen probes the non-for profit, research based and process oriented initiatives within Beirut’s increasingly layered art scene and infrastructure. The magazine uncovers how these initiatives operate as well as their potential to produce multiple and varied forms of knowledge. The following pages explore the…
Hakan Topal
By Hakan Topal Winter 2010 | ArteZine This issue is edited by Hakan Topal with contributions by Defne Ayas, Anne Barlow, Regine Basha, Dan Cameron, Aslihan Demirtas, Cevdet Erek, Tony Chakar and Micah Silver. Together, these authors discuss the possibilities and limitations of the condition of silence by looking at examples in art, music and across…
