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Ibraaz Reader 009/03
This month, Ibraaz further explores the genealogies of performance art in North Africa and the Middle East with an essay by Nahrain Al-Mousawi on the practice of Bouchra Ouizguen, and a reflection on the performance of self-censorship by Sondos Shabayek. We are also pleased to publish interviews with Reza Aramesh, Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi, alongside projects by Joe Namy and Helene Kazan.
On the Ibraaz Channel, we feature a series of video interviews with Guy Mannes-Abbott, John Akomfrah, Nick Denes, and Zineb Sedira. We also present an excerpt from Sharif Waked's Chic Point and Anas Al-Shaikh's My Land 2, and interviews with Cliff Lauson, Aaron Cezar, Jumana Emil Abboud and Samah Hijawi.
Interviews
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A Letter’s Discourse |
Action Piece |
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Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare |
Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah |
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Natasha Hoare speaks to Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi about their collaborative practice, which combines image, text, archive, film and sound. |
In this interview with Lara Atallah, artist Reza Aramesh discusses his 'Action' works and the underlying performativity that informs their development. |
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Projects
Engineering Shelter |
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Helene Kazan |
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Space, Breath, Time |
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Joe Namy |
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Essays
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Being ‘Inappropriate’ |
Bouchra Ouizguen |
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Sondos Shabayek |
Nahrain Al-Mousawi |
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Sondos Shabayek is the director of the BuSSy project, a performing arts project that gives voice to stories about gender in different communities around Egypt. |
Nahrain Al-Mousawi writes about Bouchra Ouizguen, whose performances are designed to infiltrate the public space of ritual with the intimacies of private life. |
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Reviews
La Vie Moderne |
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Clelia Coussonnet |
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SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms |
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Tom Snow |
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Channel
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Dissonant Archives |
Chic Point (excerpt) |
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Sharif Waked |
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Ibraaz presents a series of video interviews with Guy Mannes-Abbott, John Akomfrah, Nick Denes, and Zineb Sedira, produced at the London launch of Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East. |
Sharif Waked's Chic Point presents a fashion show featuring clothing designs that reflect the popular parts of the body that are often searched at military checkpoints, placing the spectator in a position that paraphrases the soldier's gaze. |
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My Land 2 |
Curating Live Art |
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Anas Al-Shaikh |
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Anas Al-Shaikh's two-channel work My Land 2 consists of a close-up video of Bahrain's red-and-white flag and another presenting the artist's naked torso with his back to the viewer. |
Produced during the Hayward Gallery exhibition Echoes & Reverberations, Ibraaz talks to Cliff Lauson, Aaron Cezar, Jumana Emil Abboud and Samah Hijawi about the challenges of curating live art. |
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Publications
Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East |
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Next month Ibraaz will continue to publish content relating to Platform 009. Contributors will include Oreet Ashery, Sarah Abu Abdallah, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Doa Aly, Hasan Hujairi, Hassan Khan, and others.
