Spring 2013
Ghazi AlMulaifi
By Ghazi AlMulaifi Spring 2013 | ArteZine It always seemed to be secondhand, overheard, or when I got in trouble that a story about my grandfather’s past would surface. At a family meal I expressed some distaste at the food my mother had prepared. In response, she told me about a crew member who had approached…
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…
Yasmina Reggad, Amina Menia, Mohamed Bourouissa
By ArteEast Spring 2013 | Gallery Amina Menia’s work questions the relation to architectural and historical spaces, and challenges conventional notions around the exhibition space. Her artworks are a crossovers of sculptures and installations that trigger an interaction of viewers and passersby with socio-spatial configurations. Extra-Muros (2005-ongoing) is a series of site specific installations all over Algiers. An…
Aziz
By Aziz Spring 2013 | ArteZine This quarter’s ArteZine is focused on the question of collecting sound and performance art. Embracing sound art and broader sound archiving practices in the Middle East, UNCOLLECTABLE is packaged into literary and performance components that work together. They investigate the noticeable shift in the Middle East art world towards more…
Winter 2012
Aaron Cezar, Moukhtar Kocache, Delfina Foundation
By Aaron Cezar and Moukhtar Kocache Winter 2012 | ArteZine Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of residencies across the globe and in different contexts – from major art institutions to community cultural centers to non-conventional (and even non-art) spaces – that host artists, archivists, researchers, architects, curators, activists and scientists as well. Yet, the…
Moukhtar Kocache
By Moukhtar Kocache Winter 2012 | ArteZine Over the course of the last fifteen years or so, I have had the fortune of being engaged with various artist residency programs as a founder, director, juror, board member and donor. These residencies have taken on a variety of forms: from retreats to exchanges; site-specific, studio-based, workshop and…
Aneta Szylak
By Aneta Szylak Winter 2012 | ArteZine There was a time when we weren’t taking artist-in-residence programs seriously enough. But the political map of the world is changing; as funding for art shifts, we find ourselves in a moment where rethinking residencies is necessary. Museums, galleries and public spaces all underwent a significant reformulation of their…
Warren Neidich
By Warren Neidich Winter 2012 | ArteZine “…the ‘residency without walls’ adapts to the rubric of the early 21st century and embraces this idea of the immaterialization of architecture as a mechanism by which to unhinge regimes of oppression that attempt to debilitate it as a cultural and neurobiological modifier…. The residency without walls first of all must…
DAM
By DAM Winter 2012 | ArteZine Ahmad Hosni was among the first group of resident artists at Dar Al-Ma’mûn (DAM) in 2010-11. This transcript is an excerpt of a conversation between Carleen Hamon and Julien Amicel, co-directors of Dar Al-Ma’mûn (DAM), with photographer Ahmad Hosni who was among their first group of resident artists in 2010-11. DAM: Could you…
Todd Lester
By Todd Lester Winter 2012 | ArteZine freeDimensional works with the global arts community to identify and redistribute resources, and support meaningful relationships between art spaces and activists. freeDimensional delivers services that connect arts residencies and human rights organizations to demonstrate and share a specific method, both as an example of discrete utility and a model…
