Winter 2014
Adham Hafez
By Adham Hafez Winter 2014 | ArteZine This publication deals thematically with ruptures in a given artistic practice or within a country’s arts history, with special attention to power dynamics in the art world. As a consequence it also deals with propaganda and the role of the state in shaping certain dynamics of power. HaRaKa operates…
Ismail Fayed
By Ismail Fayed Winter 2014 | ArteZine There is a certain weariness among Egyptians living now under the rule of a complicit and corrupt military regime. A survey of recent social media and online platforms reveals that attempts at “propaganda” are commonly judged to be somewhere between “pitiful” and “disgusting”, and inspire an intense negative emotional…
Sawsan Gad
By Sawsan Gad Winter 2014 | ArteZine The Reda Troupe is an iconic Egyptian dance company that survived six decades of Egyptian political history, and Egyptian dance history. The company produced work that raised questions on contemporaneity and tradition, as well as on what are the references of Arab and Egyptian modernism in dance and performance,…
Abdullah Al-Bayyari
By Abdullah Al-Bayyari Winter 2014 | ArteZine One of the first goals of state power, is in controlling the body by direct engineering of the containing space and time. It is often one of the most common scenes to be performed by the stifling regime. (the term “regime” here does not only refer to the political…
By Adham Hafez Winter 2014 | ArteZine On ruptures and new shifts in the artistic practice of Egyptian visual artist Shayma Aziz “The painting flashed one night through my head, as I was in my studio in Cairo. I was passing some time reflecting on old works of mine, studying how I used to see things”….
Wafa Gabsi, Alya Sebti
By Alya Sebti and Wafa Gabsi Winter 2014 | Gallery This issue marks the last installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Gallery that spotlights artists from the Maghreb leading up to the 2014 edition of the Marrakech Biennial. Each subsequent gallery will showcase artists who deal with the every day in their work to reveal the conceptual…
Fall 2014
Nada Ayari
By Nada Ayari Fall 2014 | Gallery Two summers ago in a restaurant on Center Street in New York City, a line from a ‘90s hit song turned into a concept for a group show. I was sitting with some friends arguing the morality of the art world’s fast rallying around Pussy Riot as the Syrian…
Summer 2014
Hisham Awad, Ghalya Saadawi
By Ghalya Saadawi and Hisham Awad Summer 2014 | ArteZine The initial impetus behind this issue was to reflect on the fanzine as a format. Embedded within histories of self-publishing, niche and underground groups, fandom, pop and rock idols, or even further political pamphlets, zines have fed and resulted from science fiction, comics, punk, queer, feminist imaginaries, and DIY…
Leila Pourtavaf
By Leila Pourtavaf Summer 2014 | ArteZine In the increasingly monopolized world of mainstream media, it is imperative that works that challenge the status quo, affirm the lives of their creators, and problematize corporate control over the media are available to the widest audience possible. [i] Bookmobile Collective, 2001 The here and now is a prison house. We…
Steven Warwick
By Steven Warwick Summer 2014 | ArteZine These images have been repurposed to unlock and re-engineer associative thought processes attributed to branding. Familiar motifs collide with contrasting, suggestive phrases. Visual associative cues emerge. Form the bond between message and feeling! Join in and participate!
