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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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