Winter 2010
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…
Fall 2010
Micah Silver
By Micah Silver Fall 2010 | ArteZine [silence is sexy] [supercomputing rapture] [advanced silencing system] Summations, peculiar triangulation, and all forms of fundamentalist adherence to a singular (period) are rejected by the elegant, seeping liquidity within the notion of silence. It’s a sublimely subversive quality for a word and it’s baggage to so lithely slither away,…
Summer 2010
Ursula Biemann
By Ursula Biemann Summer 2010 | ArteZine For the longest time we have thought of extra-territoriality as a designated space or status that lies outside territorial boundaries and either benefits or suffers from the suspension of jurisdiction overruling the national territory. Embassies, refugee camps, free trade zones are a few cases in point. In recent years,…
By Ursula Biemann Summer 2010 | ArteZine In an observation about the city of London – as part of the ‘Urban Age’ initiative, the sociologist, writer and academic Richard Sennett noted that: We need to better understand how to legitimise certain forms of conflict. We can only assume that we have the ability to resolve conflict,…
Spring 2010
Beshara Doumani, Ursula Biemann
By Beshara Doumani and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine Ursula Biemann: We have had an ongoing discussion about the possibility of designing and experiencing post-territorial forms of a Palestinian cultural and political life. Half of the Palestinian population, about five million people, live outside of their home territory as refugees, mostly in adjacent states, but also scattered across…
Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman
By Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal and Eyal Weizman Spring 2010 | ArteZine In May 2006, the Israeli army evacuated a military fortress strategically located on one the highest hill at the southern edge to the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem region. The fortress, located on the line-of-water-divide that separates the arable lands of Bethlehem from the…
Ursula Biemann, Oroub El-Abed
By Oroub el Abed and Ursula Biemann Spring 2010 | ArteZine In 1997, the U.S. established several Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) in Jordan and Egypt, where labor-intensive production (such as textiles and garments), were manufactured for tax-free export to the U.S., under the condition that the financial operation involved an 8% Israeli input. This neo-liberal initiative, aimed at…
Ziad Turkey
By Ziad Turkey Spring 2010 | ArteZineSpring 2010 | ArteZine I probably made the right decision to rescue my family from the infernal sectarianism and hate that prevail in our society. I heard that the house where my family and I used to live was burned by the militias a few months after leaving the country….
Rana ElNemr
By Rana ElNemr Spring 2010 | ArteZine The “Olympic Garden” is a 7 minute long 3-channel loop of still photographs, text & sound. Script: Channel B Located behind ‘The Egyptian Olympic Centre’, on the amorphous line separating the upper middle class neighborhood of New Maadi and the Arab Al-Basateen informal area, ‘The Olympic Centre Garden’ has…
