Platform for discussion 007
What is the future of arts infrastructures and audiences across North Africa and the Middle East?
Essays
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Platform 007: Future Imperfect (Part II)8 October 2014
Building Institutions Through Practice
Anthony Downey
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Notes on Performative Urbanism8 October 2014
An Emergent Design Approach to the Gulf
George Katodrytis
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The Future of Art in the Age of Militarized De-Production9 September 2014
Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine
Reema Salha Fadda
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Walling Strategy26 June 2014
Can T-Wall Murals really Beautify the Fragmented Baghdad?
Caecilia Pieri
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Utopian Dust Versus Perfumed Amplification26 June 2014
Object Lessons from Saadiyat Island and Gehry’s Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi
Guy Mannes-Abbott
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Filling the Gaps8 May 2014
Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship
Hadia Gana
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Knowledge Bound8 May 2014
Reflections on Ashkal Alwan's Home Workspace Program, 2013-14
Rachel Dedman
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Interviews
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Transmission Systems9 September 2014
Raed Yassin in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
Stephanie Bailey
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Time Over Development28 May 2014
Hisham Al-Madhloum in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
Stephanie Bailey
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Free Expression8 May 2014
The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi
Laura Cugusi
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Responses
In a globalized and quite complex world we need 'tools' to help shape our societies. This is what art institutions could be: giant toolboxes!
"Neither identification with an institution nor disengagement from an institution guarantees fluid, sensitive attitudes and openmindedness."
'I don't believe culture is nowadays negotiating social activity, political engagement and critical practices. Culture is following the forces of the market.'
'You can't draw desire, you have to walk it.'
'By producing an idea of the future, art transgresses official history and produces its own reality.'
'I suggest that we look at the past and present strengths of cultural organizations, which have always served social and informational purposes, regardless of region and time. It is in these two spheres that the future resides.'
'The future of arts looks promising, but it also risks looking stale if we're not too careful. I will concentrate here on what I think are important considerations in the shaping of spaces of encounter.'
'When one speaks of 'art infrastructures', it is crucial to recognize that infrastructures are, most importantly, people...and one of the most critical and urgent needs is for arts education.'
'Better imagine now, rather than later.'
'The future of art infrastructures in the region is still very much determined by pre-existing cultural misconceptions applied to audiences... During the last four years in Cairo, I've witnessed in several occasions how part of the audience has been marginalized according to nationality, class, race or economic income.'
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