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Ibraaz Reader 009/03

009_03 / 24 September 2015

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

A Letter’s Discourse

Action Piece

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Reza Aramesh in conversation with Lara Atallah

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

Helene Kazan

 

Through film, image, and text, Helene Kazan explores the legacy of the Morrisson shelter, a cage-like structure designed to withstand aerial bombing during World War II. This project unpacks the impact of the research, creation, distribution of this shelter on the public consciousness and the concept of the 'home under threat'.

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Space, Breath, Time

Joe Namy

 

This documentation is from a performance that took place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer in London on 18 July 2015 as part of the Hayward Gallery exhibition Echoes and Reverberations. It was performed by 14 musicians, each interpreting a specific text score.

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Essays

Being ‘Inappropriate’

Bouchra Ouizguen

Sondos Shabayek

Nahrain Al-Mousawi

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

Clelia Coussonnet

 

The 13th Biennale de Lyon La Vie Moderne examines the concept of the 'modern' by mixing a number of references from Baudelaire's poem The Painter of Modern Life (1863) and Jacques Tati's 1967 movie Playtime.

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SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

Tom Snow

 

The 14th Istanbul Biennial is both broadly defined and unevenly integrated into the city, writes Tom Snow, in this review of SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

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Channel

Dissonant Archives

Chic Point (excerpt)

Ibraaz

Sharif Waked

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

Anas Al-Shaikh

Ibraaz

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

 

Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East, volume 02 in our Contemporary Visual Culture in the Middle East series, was formally launched this month following events in Tunis, Istanbul, and London. It is the first book to consider the various ways in which contemporary artists from North Africa and the Middle East utilize and disrupt the function of the archive.

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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.

 

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