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).
Download or read book Out of My Mind Back in 5 Minutes written by Hanna Liden and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is compiled from images swiped from the Internet, photos taken with a BlackBerry and installation shots from Liden{u2019}s recent shows at Maccarone and Salon 94 including a series of self-portraits in which she wore various plastic deli shopping bags " (NYtimes.com).
Download or read book Around the BLOC written by Jacob Pesci and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Dancing with Helen Moller written by Helen C. Moller and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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 Go Kiss the World written by Subroto Bagchi and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2009-08-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Go, kiss the world' were Subroto Bagchi's blind mother's last words to him. These words became the guiding principle of his life. Subroto Bagchi grew up amidst what he calls the 'material simplicity' of rural and small-town Orissa, imbibing from his family a sense of contentment, constant wonder, connectedness to a larger whole and learning from unusual sources. From humble beginnings, he went on to achieve extraordinary professional success, eventually co-founding MindTree, one of India'™s most admired software services companies. Through personal anecdotes and simple words of wisdom, Subroto Bagchi brings to the young professional lessons in working and living, energizing ordinary people to lead extraordinary lives. Go Kiss the World will be an inspiration to 'young India', and to those who come from small-town India, urging them to recognize and develop their inner strengths, thereby helping them realize their own, unique potential.
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 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 Maleth Haven Port heterotopia of Evocation written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Black Butterflies Over Baghdad written by David Allen Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen by Tim Seibles for The Hilary Tham Capital Collection. Brian Turner says Sullivan "listens across cultures and across languages in order to undo the erasures of time and power," calling this "a book of compassion and deep humanity." Poems spring from inspirations as various as paintings by Iraqi painters, the voices of Iraqi poets, co-translation projects with poets living there or in exile, and daily life in Iraq itself. Co-translations comprise one section of the collection and give a priceless cross-section of Iraqi poets today. Says Seibles: "David Allen Sullivan gives us an intimate tour of war-torn Iraq, an intricate look at the minds of people for whom military violence had become a defining part of daily life. Because these figures speak with such authority and desperation, reading this collection disrupts and deepens the way we, who have not lived with war, perceive its terrible damage. The poems are at times poignantly lyrical and in other moments darkly magical--as if the reader has somehow entered the poet's more than real dreamscape. I don't know if art can save us from self-annihilation, but to echo Muriel Rukeyser slightly: David Allen Sullivan's poetry is the kind of thing that might help us back away from the brink." Lola Haskins adds: "Sullivan's book left me in a state of shock and awe: shocked by the terrible sufferings of the Iraqi people, and awed by the high and heart-breaking grace of the survivors who present them. For me, the most resonant word in the poems is 'blood,' not because it's so often used, but because of its double meanings: the literal--the substance in all our veins that's essential to life, and the figurative--'family,' which is the heart the whole collection wears on its metaphoric sleeve: that we are all, wherever we come from, family." Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies.
Download or read book Still Life written by Hakan Topal and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roboski families still wait for peace and justice. This book is a document dedicated to their resilience.(Hardback version)
