[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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