ArteEast Quarterly Spring 2013
ArteEast is pleased to announce the release of the Spring 2013 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. Consisting of three sections–ArteZine, Shahadat and Gallery–ArteEast Quarterly complements ArteEast live programs to serve its global audience.
Spring 2013 ArteZine: Uncollectable Art
Guest Editor: +Aziz
Trend spotter and musician +Aziz explores the precarious place of “sound art” in the contemporary art world. This collection of essays examines lost histories that rely on aural practices and song as well as the challenges of buying this ephemeral art form. Readers are offered Hasan Hujairi’s personal insight into his practice as an experimental sound artist in Bahrain, while Ghazi Al-Mulaifi‘s piece on his ancestral relationship to pearl diving in Kuwait and the music that emerges from that tradition, and finally Hisham Awad‘s profile of Beirut-based Rabih Beaini, aka DJ Morphosis, which points to the failure of personal narrative to encompass the complexity of his work and his audience’s reception.
For this issue of ArteZine and to learn more about the contributors click here.
Spring 2013 Gallery: The Economy of Hope [working title]
Featured artists: Amina Menia and Mohamed Bourouissa
Guest Curator: Yasmina Reggad for aria (artist residency in algiers)
By tackling the failed capitalist system in Algeria and exposing it as a milieu wracked with ethical and intellectual crises, Guest Curator Yasmina Reggad invokes an alternative framework that she names an “economy of hope.” In this issue of Gallery, we are offered the opportunity to explore the works of two emerging Algerian artists in dialogue with the everyday and subsequently art’s capacity to imagine alternative worlds. The tight lens that Reggad directs towards the works of Bourouissa and Menia reveals the systemic fractures in a global system.
For this issue of Gallery see here.
Spring 2013 Shahadat: Contemporary Iranian Literature
Guest Editor: Roger Sedarat
Including a rich collection of literary forms ranging from poetry to performance, this issue of Shahadat offers a rare perspective into contemporary literature emerging out of Iran. Guest Editor Roger Sedarat brings together sensitive translations by a vanguard of talented young scholars and translators like Kaveh Bassiri, Samad Alavi and Aria Fani alongside established and award-winning translators, including Sholeh Wolpé. What results is a thrilling panoramic perspective of a cross section of the field that includes Maryam Habibian and Lois Becker’s translation of excerpts from Gholamhoseyn Sa’edi’s play The Invitation (Da’vat) which paints an fractured portrait of pre-revolutionary Iran; Bassiri‘s brings his own poetic expertise to translations of Roya Zarrin’s verse; and Fani‘s collaboration with Adeeba Talukder brings us poetry by the remarkable Simin Behbahani and Bijan Jalali.
To view the issue online click here.
For more information about the publications contact Barrak Alzaid, Managing Editor, ArteEast Quarterly.
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