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How
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maneuver:
Shapeshifting
texts
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publishing
tactics<br/>Curated by Kayfa ta, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, 10.12–2019.–16.2.2020<br/><br/>Publishing is the act of making public. It is not restricted to specific producers, languages of production, sanctified routes of distribution, and privileged readers. This is not publishing as we have come to know it. <br/><br/>The Arab World is home to a growing number of book fairs and art book fairs. These two types of public platforms run parallel to each other, representing different, if not opposing, economies of cultural capital, systems of representation of subjects and subjectivities, as well as strategies for encountering and conversing with an audience.<br/><br/>This exhibition emerged out of a need to question the boundaries separating Publishing from independent publishing, or mainstream from alternative cultural production. The space that separates these different regimes of authorship, publishing and readership, is also the space where these differences can be maneuvered - where limits are creatively questioned and hardened practices lured to speak in different tongues. This is the space that this exhibition inhabits.<br/><br/>How to maneuver follows the footsteps of a selection of artistic and publishing practices, and the spaces they seek to create. The works presented share a rich variety of historical and contemporary reflections on the languages and formats marginalized in the dominant publishing industry – the snubbed genres, the outlawed subjects, the troubling subjectivities, the excessive, the minimal, the unprofitable, and the unfathomable. Through the exhibition, its artworks, publications and structural interventions, we get a glimpse of some of the cultural spaces and agencies reclaimed through independent artistic and publishing practices. <br/><br/>Accompanying publication is co-published by Kayfa ta and Warehouse421 in 2020. Designed by Anton Stuckardt. <br/>ISBN 978-9948-34-465-0 (Ar)<br/>ISBN 978-9948-34-464-3 (En)<br/>336 pages, 15 x 23 cm, paperback<br/><br/>The book was launched in an online event [11.11.2020] with a conversation between the editors and Deepak Unnikrishnan, and the debut of a commissioned musical piece by Yazan Rousan.<br/><br/><br/>Exhibition included participations by 3asal mag, Ahmad Makia, Al Tashkeel Magazine, Ali Eyal, Ali Yass, antoine lefebvre editions, Azim Al Ghussein, Bady Dalloul, Banat Collective, Barakunan, BAZAR Art Book Fair (featuring Shabahang Tayyari), Bernhard Cella, Bidoun, Brownbook, Center for Architectural Discourse, Display Distribute, Dubailand, Exhausted Geographies, Farah Khelil, Farside Collective, Fehras Publishing Practices, Ghadah Alkandari, Hala Bizri and Jana Traboulsi, Hassan Ali Alnajjar, Hessa Al-Ajmani, Hind Mezaina, Hundred Best Arabic Posters Competition, Hussein Nassereddine, IKREK Edições (featuring Thiago Honório and Marilá Dardot), Imane Ibrahim, Jaffat El Aqlam, Jad Atoui, Karima Al Shomely, Khaldoun Chichakli, Khalid Mezaina, Khawla Al Marri and Shahd Alshammari, Liane Al Ghusain, Mahall al-Maa, Mariam Alzarooni, MinRASY PROJECTS, Miti Ruangkritya, Moad Musbahi, Mohssin Harraki, Nasir Nasrallah, Raafat Majzoub, Rafael Domenech, Ryan Inouye, Samar Khalid, Sharjah Art Foundation, Silsilat Al Ramad, Shubigi Rao, Tara Books, Tehran Art Book Fair, The State, Thukral and Tagra, Tosh Fesh, Vikram Divecha, Wtd Magazine, Yadawia / Maher Sherif. <br/> |