[spectre] springerin 3/2011: Upheaval Arabia – out now!

Christa Benzer benzer at springerin.at
Thu Jul 28 16:13:58 CEST 2011


Cover Image: Faten Rouissi, »/Art dans la rue - Art dans le quartier/« 
was an event in public space: an Intervention / Happening by using a 
large number of cars burnt during the revolution of January 14th, 2011, 
in Tunisia.



Upheaval Arabia

springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst

www.springerin.at/en <http://www.springerin.at>

The current political upheavals in the Arab world are tied up with 
enormous hopes and fears. Hopes that at last a sustained wave of 
democratisation will sweep through these societies, which have resisted 
reforms for so long. Fears that reactionary or totalitarian tendencies 
may gain the upper hand. Without being able to foresee how events will 
develop in the longer term, the summer edition will attempt to take 
stock of the situation. Taking as its point of departure the cultural 
realm, which over the last decade has heralded the advent of 
revolutionary changes, this edition will focus on the following 
questions: What are the criteria that determine the actual 
implementation of democratic processes in Arab countries? Which artistic 
scenarios accompany and support this process? Is it really possible in 
the light of the current upheavals to identify something like the power 
of »social media«? And finally: What shape is a new geopolitical 
imaginary assuming, springing from the events unfolding at present?

Contents:

Julia Schneider: On Loss and Revolution – Al Fadhil &Aissa Deebi at 
Laboratory Art Berlin and Ahemd Basiony in the Egyptian Pavilion at the 
Venice Biennale

Nat Muller: Lost in Translation – Reading the Arab Spring from the 
Streets to the Arts

Walid Raad: /Scratching on Things I Could Disavow -/ A History of Art in 
the Arab World//

Christian Höller in Conversation With Gilbert Achcar, a Lebanese writer, 
political scientist and antiwar activist

Maya Mikdashi, R.M: Gays, Islamists and the Arab Spring – What would a 
revolutionary do?

Nehad Selaiha: Tahrir Tales - The Hopes of the Young Theatre Scene in Egypt

Aurélie Machghoul, Selma Ouissi: The Revolution in Tunisia – A 
Revolution of Public Art?

Daho Djerbal: Sweet Sixties – Between the Liberation of the Peoples and 
Individual Freedom

Charlotte Bank: Borderlines – Artistic Work on Exile and Emigration

Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann: Atlas Dubai – A Revision of Gerd 
Arntz’s and Otto Neurath’s »Atlas zu Gesellschaft und Politik«

Artscribe: Reviews about Ibon Aranberri (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 
Barcelona), »Dislocación« (Kunstmuseum Bern), »Serious Games« 
(Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt), Barbara Breitenfellner (HMKV, Dortmund), Isa 
Rosenberger (Grazer Kunstverein), Nancy Holt (Badischer Kunstverein, 
Karlsruhe), Rabih Mroué (iniva, London), Ion Grigorescu (Sammlung 
Friedrichshof, Zurndorf) plus many more.

Contact: springerin at springerin.at <mailto:springerin at springerin.at>

www.springerin.at/en <http://www.springerin.at/en>


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