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Critical reflections on Ibraaz publications

Edited by Anthony Downey (jrp|ringier, 2015)

Publications كتابة هذا البحر 010 / 31 August 2017 تمت كتابة هذه النصوص بأعقاب قلنديا الدولي 2016 نسخة 'هذا البحر لي'، وفي إطار مساق 'الكتابة مع الصور' وهو مساق تجريبي بادر إليه برنامج الثقافة والفنون في مؤسسة عبد المحسن القطَّان وتم تنظيمه بشراكة المتحف الفلسطيني وجمعية الثقافة العربية، ورواق، ومركز...

Acknowledgements

Responses

Video documentation: Day 2

Anthony Downey: Introduction to 'Future Imperfect'

Alia Rayyan: Recounting the Past, Present and Future

Hussam al-Saray: in conversation with Ala Younis | A Cultural Encyclopaedia of Iraq

Wided Rihana Khadraoui: Digitalizing Social Change through Cultural Institutions in Saudi Arabia

Monira Al Qadiri: The Saudi New Wave | Digital Landscapes and Future Institutions

Nile Sunset Annex: Plotting in Egypt: Art People

Lois Stonock: Mapping the Possible: Syrian Organizations, Movements and Platforms

Leila Al-Shami: Emerging from ‘The Kingdom of Silence’ | Beyond Institutions in Revolutionary Syria

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2014)

Edited by Anthony Downey (IB Tauris, 2015)

Edited by Anthony Downey (Walther König Verlag, 2017)

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

نصوص تقاطع الأعمال الفنّيّة

مدن 5 | غزة، باللون الأحمر

"الأيدي العائدة | حول معرض "يا حوت لا توكل قمرنا

"اسم الجدّة | عن العمل الفوتوغرافي "مراية تيتا" لرندة شعث، من معرض "أهل البحر

متمردون بالمصادفة، سنوات لا ترحم" عن "العودة" غير المألوفة في المشهد الفلسطيني"

لما شتَّت الدنيا سمك

عودة" ليلية يقودها الحمام"

آثار حيَّة | على الطريق من النقب إلى كانبيرا

Edited by Anthony Downey & Lina Lazaar (Ibraaz Publishing, 2011)

A tool-guide by Temporary. Art. Platform. (T.A.P.) with Nayla Geagea

Humans from Palestine, The Karimeh Abbud Award Exhibition: Bethlehem

Sites of Return: Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Ramallah

Cities Exhibition 5, 'Gaza – Reconstruction': Gaza

O Whale, Don't Swallow Our Moon: Ramallah

Pattern Recognition: Ramallah

A Series of Un-Curated Events: Ramallah

/Tilted/: Ramallah

RE/viewing Jerusalem #2 – REturn: Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Show VIII 'Before and After Origins': Jerusalem

Moments for Possibilities 'Air, Land and Sea': London

This Sea is Mine: Amman

This Sea is Mine: Gaza

Sea of Stories: Beirut

The People of the Sea: Haifa

Biographies

After Thoughts: Shuruq Harb

Programme Downloads

Partner institutions

Encounters Programme

Bethlehem

Amman

London

Ramallah & Al-Bireh

Jerusalem

Haifa

Gaza

Beirut

Contextual Notes: Rawan Sharaf Reema Salha Fadda Stephanie Bailey

Reflections: Ala Younis Adania Shibli

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Introduction: Qi2016 Curatorial Team

Acknowledgements

Installation Views

ARC.HIVE (2006–present): Adham Hafez

Curator's Essay: Aaron Cezar

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Installation views

Chapter 1: Intensities

Downloadable Exhibition Guide

Fractures: Children's Activity Book

Chapter 7: Fabric

Chapter 6: Writing

Chapter 5: Lines

Chapter 4: Measures

Chapter 3: Intervals

Chapter 2: Details

A Question: Jalal Toufic

Editor's Foreword: Anthony Downey

Preface: Jack Persekian

Introduction: Basak Senova

Online exhibition catalogue

A View from the City: Tina Sherwell

Acknowledgements

Magdi Mostafa: Wisdom Tower: from the series Sound Cells (Fridays)

Basma Alsharif: We Began by Measuring Distance

Joe Namy: space, breath, time

Samah Hijawi: Paradise Series

Jumana Emil Abboud: A Happy Ending, Part II

Anas Al-Shaikh: My land, 2

Visitations: When aurality loses site* by Rayya Badran

Soundscapes: Taking Apart the Arab City by Dr. Alexandra MacGilp

Curator's Introduction

Foreword: Anthony Downey

Exhibition Overview

Looking at Wafaa Bilal's Domestic Tension : Barrak Alzaid

Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with Ala Younis

End of War in Iraq: The Yes Men and Steve Lambert

Performance documentation: Lin Yilin

Chic Point Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints: Sharif Waked

Bent Jbeil: Wael Shawky

Hair and Milk Bottle: Hassan Sharif

Two Gunshots Fired at the Installation Dialogue : Xiao Lu

Photographs With A Flag: Mohammed Kazem

I March In The Parade Of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I'm Not Free: Sharon Hayes

Variation on Discord and Divisions: Mona Hatoum

Crossing Surda (a record of going to and from work): Emily Jacir

Operation Atropos: Coco Fusco

OLGA'S NOTES, all those restless bodies: Marwa Arsanios

A Tress of Hair: Doa Aly

Programme / Schedule

Speaker Biographies + Synopses

Curatorial Narrative

Introduction

Online exhibition catalogue

Closing Remarks

Online Programme

Video documentation: Day 1

Online exhibition catalogue

Lara Khaldi in conversation with Ghalya Saadawi

Mounira al Solh in conversation with Nat Muller

Online exhibition catalogue

Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

A View from Afar: Stephanie Bailey

Reflections 03

A Slavs and Tatars Panel Discussion at Art Space Pythagorion

Ibraaz

London book launch: 19 November, 18:30, Rivington Place

Edited by Anthony Downey (Sternberg Press, 2016)

London book launch

Mirene Arsanios

The Part about the Bandits Pt.2

A project by Fayçal Baghriche

A project by Benji Boyadgian

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Omar Kholeif

Literary Affects and the New Political by Tarek El-Ariss

A new book has surfaced on the shelves of Lebanese and possibly Arab bookstores. The title reads: Pure Nostalgia . As in Exclusive Nostalgia, as in free from this contaminated present . The emergence of this publication is perhaps symptomatic of something larger than a trivial nostalgia quenched by the...

Artistic Practice from Tirana to Tangier

An Introduction

Mirene Arsanios

Reflections from a book on South Sinai

Raymond Baker

Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs

Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Sara Raza

Ahmet Öğüt in conversation with Basak Senova

Adonis in conversation with Laura Allsop

Christine Tohme in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nada Sehnaoui in conversation with Laura Allsop

Michket Krifa in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Ala Ebtekar in conversation with Sara Raza

Shady El Noshokaty in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Amina Menia in conversation with Laura Allsop

Guy Mannes-Abbott in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Jeanno Gaussi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Bouchra Khalili in Conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Hassan Khan in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Tarzan and Arab in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ala Younis in conversation with Liane Al-Ghusain

Zeina Arida in conversation with Laura Allsop

Ayah Bdeir in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Mario Rizzi in conversation with Dorothea Schoene

Yuko Hasegawa in conversation with Walter D. Mignolo and Stephanie Bailey

Visualizing Palestine in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Tamara Chalabi, Reem Shather-Kubba, and Jonathan Watkins in conversation with Basak Senova

Nadia Ayari in conversation with Haig Aivazian

Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Elisabeth Jaquette

Dream City in Tunis

Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi in conversation with Natasha Hoare

Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri in conversation with Samah Hijawi

Meriem Bennani in conversation with Myriam Ben Salah

Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation with Sarah Abu Abdallah

Mahmoud Khaled in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Slavs and Tatars in conversation with Franz Thalmair

Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Randa Mirza in conversation with Amira Gad

JW Stella in conversation with Aimee Dawson

Alya Sebti in conversation with Göksu Kunak

Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Coco Fusco in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

ismaël in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Haig Aivazian in conversation with Rayya Badran

Adham Hafez in conversation with Suzy Halajian

Fayçal Baghriche in conversation with Laura Allsop

Robin Kahn in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Hiwa K in conversation with Anthony Downey and Amal Khalaf

Oreet Ashery in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Helene Kazan in conversation with Amal Khalaf

Mohssin Harraki in conversation with Karima Boudou

Özgür Uçkan and Vasif Kortun in conversation with Basak Senova

Timo Nasseri in conversation with Laura Allsop

Stefano Rabolli Pansera in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Youmna Chlala in conversation with Fawz Kabra

Aikaterini Gegisian in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Sheyma Buali in conversation with Turi Munthe and Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

Leeza Ahmady in conversation with Taus Makhacheva

Köken Ergun in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Mai Elwakil in conversation with Daniella Rose King

The Arab Digital Expression Foundation in conversation with Laura Cugusi

Burak Arıkan in conversation with Basak Senova

Antonia Carver in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Jananne Al-Ani in conversation with Nat Muller

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part I

Maha Maamoun in conversation with Aleya Hamza

Rana Hamadeh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Shumon Basar, Ala Younis and Omar Berrada in conversation with Sheyma Buali

Parastou Forouhar in conversation with David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Georgia Kotretsos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Suha Shoman in conversation with Amin Alsaden

Foundland in conversation with Nat Muller

Kamel Lazaar in conversation with Anthony Downey

WHW in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Uriel Orlow in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Lucien Samaha in conversation with Walid Raad, Part II

Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey

Rifat Chadirji and Balkis Sharara in conversation with Amin Alsaden

MADRASSA Collective in conversation with Antonia Alampi

Leung Chi Wo in conversation with Robin Peckham

Lamia Joreige in conversation with Anthony Downey

Nora Razian, Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, and Angela Harutyunyan in conversation, with a contribution from Natasha Gasparian

Héla Ammar in conversation with Wafa Gabsi

Eric Baudelaire in conversation with Anthony Downey

Ibraaz

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Ibraaz

Art and Culture in the ‘Imagined’ Arab World, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 13 April 2012

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

1967 in Art and Its Histories, June 1-2, 2012 American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Notes from a roundtable discussion on the state of the arts in Egypt

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

An Artist-Run Gallery Space in Cairo

Ibraaz

Ibraaz in partnership with Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art

Ibraaz

Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses: Contemporary Art from the Middle East

Ibraaz

Decolonizing Architecture at Tate Modern

Ibraaz

News The Jerusalem Show 007 / 24 October 2014 Ibraaz is pleased to announce the opening of THE JERUSALEM SHOW VII: FRACTURES. Curated by Basak Senova and organized by Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, this year's show runs from 24 October to 7 November 2014, and is presented in...

Reema Salha Fadda

Parviz Tanavoli’s Retrospective at the Davis Museum

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Gregory Sholette at Home Workspace Program

Ibraaz

William Wells in conversation at Serpentine Galleries

Ibraaz

A Report from the AUC

Ibraaz

Işıl Eğrikavuk's The Art of Disagreement

Ibraaz

A Report from Cologne

Videobrasil

Sophia Al-Maria: On Automobiles

Shuruq Harb: On Agency

Ala Younis: On Curating

Guy Mannes-Abbott: On Drones

Murtaza Vali: On Domesticity

Hans Ulrich Obrist: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Todd Reisz: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Adam Szymczyk: in conversation with Omar Kholeif

Ibraaz

Ibraaz

Aaron Cezar, Delfina Foundation

Wael Shawky

Doa Aly

Lin Yilin

Ibraaz

Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints

Performances at Echoes & Reverberations

Ibraaz

Murtaza Vali: 'Arresting Flows, Stacking Forms'

Episode Twelve: Prayer, Aerialist

Episode Five: Archives, Avatars

Episode One

Trailer

A web series by Oreet Ashery

Beau Geste: Yto Barrada

Sama Alshaibi

Notes Toward a Theory of Transformative Justice

Council presents: The Against Nature Journal

Contour Biennale 8 / DAI Roaming Assembly #12

Hammad Nasar in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

Toleen Touq in conversation with Reema Salha Fadda

To close Ibraaz Platform 010, we present new essays by Ibraaz Editor-in-Chief Anthony Downey, Ibraaz Senior Editor Stephanie Bailey, Ibraaz Contributing Editor Ala Younis, and Natasha Hoare; interviews with Szabolcs KissPál and Mahmoud Khaled, Toleen Touq, Cevdet Erek, Hammad Nasar; projects by Shadi Habib Allah, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi,...

Platform 010 Editorial

On Navigating Without a Compass

Ala Younis

Contour Biennale 8

Artists Intervening in Lebanese Dailies

Meeting Points 8

The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

Katia Kameli at the Mosaic Rooms

Closing Remarks

Exhibitions and Other Representations in 25 Years at Witte de With

The Art of Shirin Neshat

Socially Engaged Art Practices in Tunisia

An Introduction to Platform 010

Organic Growth and the Rise of Visual Arts Organizations in the UAE

What are the urgent questions affecting cultural production in Turkey? I am writing from the perspective of Turkey, rather than the perspective of the Middle East and North Africa in general...

The varying political, cultural and economic circumstances of the participants of Art Dubai 2016, Design Days and the March Meeting, merit further consideration, as it is the differences among them that highlight the current constraints and opportunities for cultural production in the region.

Rana Hamadeh at The Showroom, London

Samah Hijawi

Green Art Gallery

Bruno Boudjelal's Documentary of Affect

The Subversive Feminine

Maraya Art Centre

A Nomadological Study of Ottoman Arab Photography

Practice, Performance, Politics

'Too Early, Too Late: Middle East and Modernity' at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

A Curatorial Take on the Global South

Natasha Ginwala

Street Art in the Mediterranean Border Zones

Nikos Papastergiadis and Gerardo Mosquera

An Art Collection as an Alternative Archive of Iranian History

Pan-Kaffirism in Iraq, South Africa, and Sri Lanka

In the years that followed the destruction of the Berlin Wall, which triggered the rise of post-colonial studies, the definition of the term 'the Global South' has changed dramatically.

Outside Looking In: Taking a Title and Running With It*

A Yemeni Art History

Re-Thinking Cultural Development in Palestine

In the Shadow of Nasser

Object Lessons from Saadiyat Island and Gehry’s Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF)

Arts Infrastructures and Institutions in Libya Post-Dictatorship

What Does It Mean to Be Building a Library in Iraq?

'You can't draw desire, you have to walk it.'

'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.'

A Perspective on Algeria's Cultural Scene

Haleh Redjaian at Arratia Beer

A Review

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Israel's National Photography Archives as a Case Study

Malak Helmy and Sophia Al Maria

Oreet Ashery

Eric Baudelaire

Yogesh Barve & Clark House Initiative

Simohammed Fettaka & Basak Senova

Youmna Chlala

Campus in Camps and Grupo Contrafilé

Mohamed Abdelkarim

Monira Al Qadiri

A project by Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle

A Radio Series on the Poetics and Politics of Language

A Project by Robin Kahn

Dream Homes and Community-building

Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom in Syria

A Libyan Diary (Part I) - October 2011

The Society of False Witnesses

On Silence and Noise in Times of Crisis

Tahrir Archives

Tom Bogaert

Written by Mayssa Fattouh

Seth Ayyaz

Hassan Khan

Joe Namy

Helene Kazan

Through art practices, particularly in this region, the artist might slip into this muddy area, which is mostly based on fetishes and collective political memory and which somehow stands on the most influential component of media archive. It is not necessarily only that which is visible and legible, but more...

The Search for 'Nurafkan'

The Recordings of the Cosmopolitan

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh’s 'A photographic conversation from Burj al-Shamali Camp'

The 13th Istanbul Biennial

FIAF’s 2013 World Nomads Tunisia Festival

Farah Makni Hendaoui

Contemporary Artistic Practice in Iran at a Revolutionary Moment

The Encyclopedic Palace

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Gezira Art Center, Cairo

Creative Time Reports

Is soft power helping or hindering the state of the arts in Jordan?

Aid and the Politics of Art in Processes of Contemporary Cultural Production

Gulf Labor

An Exhibition between Cairo and London

Mario Rizzi’s Al Intithar (The Waiting)

In the 1990s, it would have been difficult to find an artist in Egypt who thought that any of their contemporaries would sell their work at international auction and for thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars at that. Artists were busy negotiating other, more immediately local, elements of a...

Introduction

Artistic Practices, Collective Action and Civil Society in Tunisia

The Story of Bahrain’s Pearl Roundabout

On the Memory of a Memorial

A.S. Bruckstein Çoruh

Foundland

'Networks have no inside, only radiating connectors. They are all edges. They provide connections but no structure. One does not reside in a network, but rather moves to other points through the edges'. Bruno Latour, 'Some Experiments in Art and Politics', e-flux journal, 03/2011. With the benefit of hindsight, one...

Precarious Images, the Aesthetics of Conflict, and the Future of an Anachronism

News from the Arab World reaches western audiences on a daily basis. The various analogue and online formats of media – TV, radio, newspapers, and blogs – are extensively reporting on the events in this region. In Berlin, and certainly elsewhere in Europe, cultural institutions and festivals reacted very quickly...

The Practice of Contemporary Art in Algeria Today

Politics, Media and Art after the Arab Uprisings

Perceptions of Occupation and Control in Cyprus

For a Polysemic Reading of Both City and Territory

'The young conservatives embrace the fundamental experience of aesthetic modernity – the disclosure of a de-centered subjectivity, freed from all constraints of rational cognition and purposiveness, from all imperatives of labour and utility – and in this way break out of the modern world. They transpose the spontaneous power of...

Platform for discussion002 What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? Haig Aivazian 1 November 2011 The Unimaginable Things We Build is a multi-part project exploring the evolution of the rhetoric surrounding, and material state of, the tallest man-made structure in the world, Dubai's Burj Khalifa....

Initiated by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation in 2011, Ibraaz is the leading critical forum on visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. We publish an annual online platform – consisting of essays, interviews, artists' projects, and platform responses – that focuses on research questions conceived through a network...

Mayssa Fattouh

One of the important developments required in the region is the expansion of a critical discourse on local artistic practices. It is crucial to gain an in-depth understanding of the various generations of art practitioners, through detailed studies of their work in relation to the relevant contexts and debates. Research...

Sitting in the sweltering sun of Sharjah on a large rolled carpet on the open esplanade facing the museum, I express to an acquaintance, my uneasiness and inability to respond to the question. We need MENA (I had continually mistaken it for MENASA, unconsciously adding yet another region to the...

This question is like a trap: 'what do we need to know about the MENA region today?' It feels like a trap, or a puzzle, rather than like a question because it was asked with no explanations. The only indication I had was that the answer should not exceed 200...

Two-Hundred and Thirty Three What can I say In order to be vigilant? How do I organize pessimism Into surviving fireflies? What and where are these images, Like germs germinating, Gestating in the belly of some vowel That lingers after all horizons are Gone ...

Mark Westmoreland

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