Summer 2013
Art In General
By Art In General Summer 2013 | ArteZine What is it to inherit an institution, with all its history, and an identity that exists at a given moment, but that is just one in a longer life of histories – an organic event unfolding over time, both before and after us? How can it be re-imagined,…
Beirut
By Beirut Summer 2013, 2016 | ArteZine Think of the difference between a knife and a 20-dollar bill. Now, think of the difference between a knife and a 20-dollar bill. [i] Institutional reality[ii] increases power, and by increasing institutional reality, we increase human capacity for action. John suggests that presupposing the institution of language (and economy) is precisely…
Form Content
By Form Content Summer 2013 | ArteZine Less than a year ago, I found myself at an artist’s talk held in a well-respected, small institution in East London. I can see now how the expression ‘to find oneself’ might introduce an element of chance in the equation describing my ‘being there’ – an element, I have…
Kunsthalle Lissabon
By Kunsthalle Lissabon Summer 2013 | ArteZine We understand institutions (at large, not only art institutions) always in terms of the act of instituting. In that sense, institutions can be defined as sets of social (and, therefore, fundamentally subjective) protocols (rules) that prescribe and normalize not only behavior but also, and maybe more importantly, perception. We…
Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry
By Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry Summer 2013 | ArteZine More than anything else my life, it is my interpersonal relationships, formal and informal, that are at the core of my being. Like anyone, my character and vocabulary change as I engage in a range of conversation: I use my most placating, understanding, and convincing voice…
Malak Helmy, Nida Ghouse
By Nida Ghouse and Malak Helmy Summer 2013 | ArteZine Emotional Architecture, text one I realized this morning, that with the hours, I was becoming the auditor of institutional ethics. The only silent attendant in the room. Listening out. ♦ The auditor listens in. To what is not said. Or listens out. For that which cannot be said. I…
Art In General, Form Content, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, Beirut
By Beirut Summer 2013 | ArteZine Artist Paul Chan wrote a text for e-flux in 2008 entitled What is art and where does it belong? He describes the first piece of art he ever bought and how he negotiated its presence in the home. There are multiple futures for a work of art, its context endlessly shifting with each…
Christopher K. Brown
By Christopher K. Brown Summer 2013 | ArteZine Abu Dhabi has worked frenetically to establish itself as a world class centre for the fine arts. From the much-touted museums to the international film festival, from a classical music series to literary awards, from the architectural experimentation to major international exhibits and auctions of art, Abu Dhabi…
Alya Sebti, Holiday Powers, Hicham Berrada, Zineb Andress Arraki
By Alya Sebti, Holiday Powers, Hicham Berrada and Zineb Andress Arrakki, ArteEast Guest Curator, ArteEast Featured Artist Summer 2013 | Gallery This issue marks the fourth installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Virtual 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…
Spring 2013
Yasmina Reggad
By Yasmina Reggad Spring 2013 | Gallery This issue marks the third installment of a six-quarter cycle of the Virtual 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…
