Dissonant archives : contemporary visual culture and contested narratives in the Middle East / edited by Anthony Downey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Downey, Anthony, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Middle Eastern--20th century.

Art, Middle Eastern.

Art, Middle Eastern--21st century.

Art--Middle East--History--20th century.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (548 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Summary:

The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events.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.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Notes on Texts and Artists' Inserts; Contingency, Dissonance and Performativity Critical Archives and Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art; 'What We Left Unfinished' The Artist and the Archive; Measures of Stillness and Movement The Poster in Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution; Rethinking National Archives in Colonial Countries and Zones of Conflict The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study

Coming to Terms Contemporary Art, Civil Society and Knowledge Politics in the 'Middle East'This is Tomorrow On Emily Jacir's Art of Assembling Radically Generative Archives; Lucien Samaha; Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas; Héla Ammar; Lawrence Abu Hamdan; Burak Arıkan; John Akomfrah; Maryam Jafri; Archive; The Museum Past the Surpassing Disaster Walid Raad's Projective Futures; I Have The Picture The Making of Photographic Heritage in Contemporary Egypt; The Global in the Local Implicating Iran in Art and History; Arab Digital Expression Foundation; Media Farzin and Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 4, 2016).

ISBN:

9780857726476

0857726471

9780857739735

0857739735

OCLC:

952247409