Spring 2007
Jordan Sudermann
By Jordan Sudermann Spring 2007 | ArteZine Jean Genet’s first encounters and homosexual experiences in North Africa and the Middle East were part of his tours with the French army in the early 1930s, with the most time being spent in Syria and Morocco. For his stay in Syria, he first arrived in Beirut, where he…
Firat Yucel
By Firat Yucel Spring 2007 | ArteZine Yazi Tura/Toss Up (2004) is directed by Ugur Yucel, a leading theater and film actor in Turkey. The film was shown and recognized in numerous international film festivals. Through distinct yet connected narratives, the film centers around two main characters that have recently returned from serving their army duty…
By ArteEast Spring 2007 | Gallery ArteEast introduces the delicately spiritual installations and sculptures of Younes Rahmoun. This selection of works highlights Rahmoun’s ability to incite visceral and humbling reactions from his viewers. Rahmoun engages within an Islamic context but is also intrigued by Sufi thought and practice. This duality results in the reverberation of repetition…
Abdellah Karroum
By Abdellah Karroum Spring 2007 | Gallery From the Rif to the Canaries and back again, always within the vast territory of the Tamzgha. (1) But Younès Rahmoun’s work seeks to transcend geographic spaces, through the penetration of these spaces in the form of the procession imposed in “visiting” his works. Younès is a mystical artist,…
Florence Renault
By Florence Renault Spring 2007 | Gallery Younès Rahmoun has set up shop. The space is cramped, barely more than a cubic meter. This is his studio, the Ghorfa. (1) It is in this empty space, under the staircase of his family home, that the artist conceives, develops, sketches, and finally designs the installations that will…
Fall 2006
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By G. Carole Woodall In recent years, Turkish cinema – be it produced by Turkish, European companies or joint ventures – has garnered more attention in international film festivals and competitions. Internationally recognized and awarded films by directors, such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Fatih Akin, have been instrumental in situating Turkish…
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By ArteEast ” Theatre never ends. We have suffered, but our children will not,” was the optimistic statement made by nine Turkish countrywomen at the end of the play “The Outcries of Women.” Their performance was a result of intense preparations, which transformed their own tragic stories into a play under the…
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By Catherine Simpson A film festival weaves a narrative. Through their programming national film festivals tell a story about a country at a particular time. When we organised the first Turkish film festival in Australia in 1998, we deliberately set out to challenge and educate an Australian audience that had outdated notions…
Fall 2006 | ArteZine By M. Zeynep Dadak Is transnationalism necessarily a study of multiculturalism? Or is it a case of translating the transnational structures of nation, self, and community into “translational,” as Ackbar Abbas puts it? Here I offer a comparative approach to the representation of the so-called blossoming, multicultural Istanbul, particularly its relationality with…
Summer 2006
By Lori A. Allen Summer 2006 | Gallery ArteEast is excited to present the premiere of new work by renowned photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti’s color photographs of places and people in Palestine are unique and compelling because they highlight liminality – of childhood, of old age, of living between what is staged and what is spontaneous,…
