Download or read book Serwan Baran Fatherland written by Tamara Chalabi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq and published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale, Fatherland presents the work of Kurdish Iraqi artist Serwan Baran and his investigation of the concept of ?fatherland? as opposed to what we traditionally understand as ?motherland.? Mixing curatorial texts by Tamara Chalabi and Natasha Gasparian with a series of poems and original letters from the 1980s written by Iraqi soldiers and collected by the artist during the years, Fatherland is both a reflective document that echoes Baran?s work and a commentary on the masculine and paternalistic dimension of the political culture in Iraq, a country dominated by men who have often enacted oppressive ideologies. 00Exhibition: Iraqi pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (11.05.-24.11.2019).
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Download or read book At the Hour of Tea written by Paul Sietsema and published by Sternberg Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiré du site Internet de Rite Editions: "Paul Sietsema's work in film and painting addresses the objects and systems of cultural production, tracing the circuits of proliferation and consumption that allow these objects to be taken up into history. The artist's book, At the hour of tea, has been constructed from a collection of stills from his most recent 16mm film of the same title. A filmic space is developed within the pages of the book moving through and layering the film's imagery via a system of cut portals and transparent screen-like pages. The film presents a sequence of tableaux of objects common to the desktop or study. Sietsema employs a language of clichéd "collectible" objects - Roman glass, coins, minor antiquities, and the like - to invoke the idea of a salon or space of contemplation as a parallel to the contemporary studio, and the idea of a kind of leisure-based consumptive creativity more and more shared by present day producers and consumers of culture. Drawing on the design idea of skeuomorphism common in modern computer interfaces, Sietsema fills his tableaux with now-outmoded items that still live on as mere icons of their former functions."
Download or read book Traces of Survival written by Tamara Chalabi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Traces of Survival' communicates to the world visually the tragedies that have befallen entire communities in Iraq due to the ISIS onslaught that has left over 1.8 million people internally displaced. The drawings in this book were created by the refugees in three camps in northern Iraq. Representatives from the Ruya Foundation took simple art materials to the camps-- sketch books, pencils, felt tip pens, pastels, erasers and sharpeners-- and invited people to tell the world about their feelings and experiences through their drawings and words.
Download or read book Notions of Nationalism written by Sukumar Periwal and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, following the end of the cold war and the relative simplicities of the bipolar confrontation, nationalism has re-emerged as a dominant force and ideology in our world. Everywhere, peoples who had been confined within the borders of countries with which they did not identify, and whose regimes they intensely disliked, have been seeking self-determination and democracy. Notions of Nationalism, as the title implies, is an open-minded exploration of a phenomenon that all of us need to understand
Download or read book Fur siyya written by Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furusiyya in the East meets Chivalry in the West. Discover how these distinct practices of combat and knightly values led to a specific culture in the Islamic East and the largely Christian West. This unique exhibition explores the ancient roots of chivalry as wall as the role of a knight in combat and the different chivalric codes that developed around the world, from Iraq and Syria in the East, to France and Spain in the West. Through over 130 rare artworks fro the 10th to the beginning of the 16th centuries, including spectacular arms, armour, and rare manuscripts, discover how some of these practices and the knightly spirit became a past time, and how some of them continue around the world to this day. Exhibition: Louvre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (19.02.-30.05.2020).
Download or read book Adrian Piper written by Adrian Piper and published by Moma. This book was released on 2018 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with MoMA's retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this scholarly volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper's practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed. Focused texts by established and emerging scholars assess themes in Piper's work such as the Kantian framework that draws on her extensive philosophical studies; her unique contribution to first-generation Conceptual art; the turning point in her work, in the early 1970s, from Conceptual works to performance; the connection of her work with her yoga practice; her ongoing exposure of and challenge to xenophobia and sexism; and the relation between prevailing interpretations of her work and the viewers who engender them.
Download or read book Dane Mitchell Post Hoc written by Zara Stanhope and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and edited by Zara Stanhope and Chris Sharp, 'Post hoc' looks for alternate realities outside ?rational? explanations of human experience, through the work of Dane Mitchell. Mitchell?s speculative, conceptual practice has a poetic and playful edge in its exploration of relations between living and non-living things and philosophical concepts. His employment of misunderstanding or unconventional scientific forms productively challenges assumptions. While privileging a poetic subjectivity that creates space for doubt, 'Post hoc' is affectively and politically charged: it requires viewers to actively engage and determine their relationship to insistent and profuse loss, and to promise of its continuity. 00Exhibition: New Zealand Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy (11.05.-24.11.2019).
Download or read book Nujoom Alghanem Passage written by Sam Bardaouil and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passage' is a site-specific, two-channel video installation, which expands Nujoom Alghanem's experimentation with contemporary Arabic poetry through the language of film.0Taking her quintessential 2009 poem, 'The Passerby Collects the Moonlight', as a point of departure, this installation explores the universal experience of displacement.0This Brechtian conflation of reality and fiction, culminating in a scene that depicts Falak arriving at the pavilion in Venice, prompts the viewers to consider the parallelism between the film's three protagonists: the director, the actress and the fictional character. These three women of a similar age share the experience of similar dualities: the hidden and the revealed, fragility and power, belonging and displacement.0The experience of passage and duality also permeates the design of the exhibition space, where visitors can enter and exit from either side of the pavilion. A large screen, diagonally positioned at the centre, divides the space into two symmetrical halves. The viewers are invited to engage both with Nujoom and Amal's real process of creating the film and with the cinematographic portrayal of the fictional character of Falak.00Exhibition: United Arab Emirates Pavilion, Venice, Italy (11.05.-24.11.2019).
Download or read book Cosmo eggs written by Motoyuki Shitamichi and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented at the Japan Pavilion as part of the 2019 Venice Biennale. Cooperation is a vital element of the exhibition, which forms a collective effort to explore new meanings and possible forms of co-existence between diverse beings. Further, it examines the potential of unknown ideas and experiments that are created through artists? mutual inspirations. Designed by Yoshihisa Tanaka, the book collects the writings and visual notes by the four participants (artist Motoyuki Shitamichi, composer Taro Yasuno, anthropologist Toshiaki Ishikura, and architect Fuminori Nousaku) as well as curator Hiroyuki Hattori. 00Exhibition: Japan Pavilion, 58th Biennale, Venice, Italy (11.05.-14.11.2019).
Download or read book Driant Zeneli Maybe the Cosmos Is Not So Extraordinary written by Driant Zeneli and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale, 'Driant Zeneli?Maybe the cosmos is not so extraordinary' is a catalogue edited by Alicia Knock which adopts the hybrid form of the ?artist?s book? and reflects the multidisciplinary nature of Zeneli?s film and sculpture installation made for the Biennale, mixing a series of curatorial texts and works by other artists with a series of drawings that set the rhythm of the book by connecting the various contributions. Maybe the cosmos is not so extraordinary is a book that takes on the form of a literary and spiritual experience divided into separate chapters, ranging from the scientific projection of the cosmos as a space of experimentation and failure, to that of a space of folkloric and literary projection.00Exhibition: Albanian Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (11.05.-24.11.2019).
Download or read book Radical Gaming written by Sabine Himmelsbach and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space written by Claudia Gould and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In commemoration of Artists Space's 25th Anniversary Year, this 350+ page, exhaustively illustrated compilation brings to life the history of one of the most renowned and multifaceted exhibition and arts service organizations of our time. Since the 1970's, Artists Space has played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary art, and this book employs not just a detailed chronology of the exhibitions, services and events of Artists Space, but also the recollections of the artists themselves: Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Anderson, Jonathan Borofsky, Mike Anderson, Tom Lawson, Adrian Piper, and many more.
Download or read book The Spark is You written by Ziba Ardalan and published by Parasol Unit. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spark Is You documents the parallel exhibitions THE SPARK IS YOU: Parasol unit in Venice (9 May - 23 November 2019) at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in Venice, and Nine Iranian Artists in London: THE SPARK IS YOU (22 May - 8 September 2019) at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art in London.Curated by Ziba Ardalan (Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of Parasol unit), the two exhibitions include works by Morteza Ahmadvand, Nazgol Ansarinia, Siah Armajani, Mitra Farahani, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Sahand Hesamiyan, Y.Z. Kami, Farideh Lashai, Koushna Navabi, Navid Nuur, Sam Samiee, Hadi Tabatabai, and Hossein Valamanesh.This publication includes beautiful full-page colour reproductions of the exhibited works in Venice and London, accompanied by insightful thematic essays by Ziba Ardalan and Narguess Farzad as well as short essays on the individual artists by Oliver Basciano, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Mahan Moalemi, Maria Porges, Sarah Thomas, and John Yau.
Download or read book Here and Elsewhere written by Massimiliano Gioni and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue, accompanying the New Museum exhibition Here and Elsewhere, presents the work of over 45 artists who share roots in the Arab world and a critical sensibility with regard to images and image-making. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a 1976 film-essay by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Anne-Marie Miéville. Their film, Ici et ailleurs, was conceived as a pro-Palestinian documentary, but evolved into a complex reflection on the ethics of representation. Taking inspiration from this film--which has had a strong impact on Arab artists--Here and Elsewhere examines the role of the artist in the face of historical events. An anthology of critical texts edited by Bidoun magazine highlights the critical discussions that have animated contemporary art in the Arab world. Among the artists included are Fouad Elkoury, Hrair Sarkissian, Hassan Sharif, Anna Boghiguian, Simone Fattal, Ziad Antar and Etel Adnan.
Download or read book Passing Through Eden written by Tod Papageorge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Tod Papageorge began this work, the newspapers saw Central Park chiefly as a site of danger and outrage, and they were doubtless partly right. But the park shown here seems no more dangerous than life itself, and no less filled with beauty, charming incident, excess, jokes in questionable taste, unintended consequence, and pathos, truly described. One might say that no artist has done so much for this piece of land since Frederick Law Olmstead." --John Szarkowski, The Museum of Modern Art, New York After receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, Tod Papageorge began to photograph intensively in Central Park, employing medium-format cameras rather than the 35mm Leicas that he had used since moving to New York in 1965. These pictures, gathered in Passing Through Eden, convey the passion that--as Rosalind Krauss once described it in Papageorge's work--embraces "the sensuous richness of physical reality, that fullness which Baudelaire called intimacy when he meant eroticism." From picture to picture, Papageorge constructs a world that resembles our own, but that also invokes that of the Bible: Passing Through Eden is sequenced to parallel, in its opening pages, the first chapters of Genesis--from the Creation through the (metaphorical) generations that follow on from Cain--before giving over to a virtuosic run of pictures that, as he expresses it in his illuminating afterword to the book, picks up "the threads that tie the Bible to Chaucer, Shakespeare and "Page Six" of the New York Post." This ambitious body of work--incorporating pictures produced over the course of 25 years--displays not only Papageorge's remarkable ability to make photographs that read like condensed narratives, but also his skill at weaving them into sequences that echo profound cultural narratives. It challenges the reader to succumb (or not) to the pleasures of the "fullness" of each individual photograph, while ignoring (or not) the tug of a tale demanding to be told. Like Eden itself, this book sets our desire for beauty against that of knowledge, even as it reminds us of some of the ways that we read, and come to know, books.
Download or read book Biz Baska Yerde We Elsewhere written by Inci Eviner and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
