ArteEast Quarterly: winter 2015
ArteEast is pleased to announce the release of the winter 2015 edition of ArteEast Quarterly, an online publication that offers readers a critical forum for contemporary artistic practices in the Middle East, North Africa and their diaspora.
Winter 2015, ArteZine: ”I am not in the future, but I can see you from there”
Guest editors: Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili
In “I am not in the future, but I can see you from there,” Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili invited their contributors to look at the future as a parallel ‘history’ that is happening now.
The project opens up questions related to the critical role an artist and intellectual can play when she temporally repositions herself in relation to an object of study. What impact does this distant looking back (or looking forward) have on her position, art work and writing?
Mars becomes the site of the future from which contributors Aneta Rostkowska, Reem Shilleh, Haitham El-Wardany and Ma’n Abu Taleb look back. It is from this vantage point that they formulate critical explanations and descriptions of our contemporary moment. Each contributor has written a letter to the present from the imagined future, responding to myriad subjects. Reem Shilleh rewrites a closing scene of a film; Aneta Rostkowska authors a sci-fi short story in epistolary form; while Ma’n Abu Taleb writes an academic essay on Trajic pop; and Haitham Wardani sends us notes on disaster, where he poignantly points out that a letter from the future were it to arrive might not be at all legible.
For this issue of ArteZine and to learn more about the contributors click here.
Winter 2015, Gallery: I am not in the future, but I can see you from there, Basim Magdy
Guest editor: Regine Basha
What is the proverbial “mind’s eye” that supposedly stores all information pertaining to our specific time and place on the planet, and will it issue an epic download to the eyes. Over the years Basim Magdy has been carefully processing images from mass media, from his immediate environment, from information systems, archaeological history to scientific inquiry. These images make their way into Magdy’s parallel universe situated in a past/future collapse without contextual reference points or specifics. In this edition of the Gallery Regine Basha will draw on the artist’s methodology to consider Magdy’s color as optical trauma.
Regine Basha will consider Basim Magdy’s color as optical trauma.
For this issue of Gallery click here.
Special Edition: ArteEast Quarterly in translation
In an effort to make critical works more widely available to artists and arts professionals in the MENA region, ArteEast is pleased to announce that through a partnership with Dictaphone Group and Jadaliyya, an independent e-zine produced by the Arab Studies Institute, the fall 2013 ArteZine issue, “The Sea is This Way,” edited by the Dictaphone Group, has been translated into Arabic.
To view the issue in Arabic click here and to view in English click here.
For more information about the publications contact Barrak Alzaid, Managing Editor, ArteEast Quarterly.
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