ArteEast Quarterly spring 2014
ArteEast is pleased to announce the release of the spring 2014 edition of The Quarterly, an online publication that offers readers a critical forum for contemporary artistic practices in the Middle East, North Africa and their diaspora.
Spring 2014, ArteZine: Art after the Remnants
Guest editor: Hrayr Eulmessekian
Armenians have had a unique and complex relationship with the Arab world, and Lebanon in particular, ever since the first waves of refugees wandered over during the Aghed, or “Catastrophe,” of 1895–1923. Drawn by Lebanon’s more liberal outlook and a confessional system of government that offered minority communities a political voice, many of the political and cultural leaders from the very short-lived first republic of Armenia settled there.
Though meaningful dialogue between the two cultures was (and remains) sporadic and haphazard at best, Lebanese Armenians revived their political aspirations for an Armenian state as well as their arts and culture. The outbreak of the Lebanese civil war of 1975 brought these promising Armenian cultural advances to an abrupt halt. In this issue of ArteZine, four contributing artists deploy their personal narratives and artistic practices to explore this community’s identity formation within a context of living through the civil war, its ravages, and its visible and invisible traumas.
For this issue of ArteZine, click here.
Spring 2014, Gallery: Mapping Arab Art through the Sultan Gallery
Guest curator: Kristine Khouri
