Dissonant Archives
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Dissonant Archives

Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East

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eBook - ePub

Dissonant Archives

Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East

About this book

The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial point: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, can also determine the future. This point has gained urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where the archive has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political contestation. Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa - including Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Jananne Al Ani, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mariam Ghani, Zineb Sedira, and Akram Zaatari - are utilizing and disrupting the function of the archive and, in so doing, highlighting a systemic, perhaps irrevocable, crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region. In exploring and producing archives, be they alternative, interrogative or fictional, these artists are not simply questioning the authenticity, authority or authorship of the archive; rather, they are unlocking its regenerative, radical potential.The result provides essential insights into the nexus between art and politics in the contemporary Middle East.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781784534110
eBook ISBN
9780857739735
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art
Image Credits
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[Cover]
Courtesy of the artist. © Akram Zaatari
[18]
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
[19]
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
[21]
Courtesy of the artists, Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc (Paris), The Third Line (Dubai), and CRG (New York) © Joana Hadjthomas and Khalil Joreige
[22]
Courtesy of the artists, Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc (Paris), The Third Line (Dubai), and CRG (New York) © Joana Hadjthomas and Khalil Joreige
[24]
Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg
[25]
Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg
[26]
Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut/Hamburg
[28]
Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery
[29]
Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery
[32]
Courtesy of the artist

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Notes on Texts and Artists’ Inserts
  7. Introduction
  8. ‘What We Left Unfinished’
  9. Measures of Stillness and Movement
  10. Rethinking National Archives in Colonial
  11. Coming to Terms
  12. This is Tomorrow
  13. Lucien Samaha
  14. Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas
  15. Héla Ammar
  16. Lawrence Abu Hamdan
  17. Burak Arıkan
  18. John Akomfrah
  19. Maryam Jafri
  20. Archive
  21. The Museum Past the Surpassing Disaster
  22. I Have The Picture
  23. The Global in the Local
  24. Arab Digital Expression Foundation
  25. Media Farzin and Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck
  26. Adelita Husni-Bey
  27. Gulf Labor
  28. Ania Dabrowska
  29. Naeem Mohaiemen
  30. Meriç Algün Ringborg
  31. Amina Menia
  32. Jananne Al-Ani
  33. Vahap AvÅŸar
  34. Theses on the Archive
  35. From Archive to Analytics
  36. Excerpts from a Grammar of Redaction
  37. The Black Market Archive
  38. Locating the Archive
  39. The Spectre (of Knowledge)
  40. Appendix
  41. Contributors
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. Image Credits