Borders: Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Discourse- Oct 2007 to Jan 2009
/ Kluijver, Robert
- Gemak, The Hague (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag); 2010
- 136p; 30x23cm
Borders, a cycle of exhibitions, presentations and debates, gives an overview of how artists and intellectuals from the Middle East and beyond come to terms with political conflict in their region. The impact of the obsession with security on their societies, new mechanisms- soft and hard- to separate and control groups of people, the withering of public space and the discourse that shapes it, the loss of meaning of nationhood: these urgent themes are tentatively explored by artists, architects and other critical observers from the Middle East. This collective artistic research formed the back bone of three exhibitions and the accompanying activities in Gemak, a new centre for art and politics in The Hague. Texts: Nat Muller; Han Mal Allah; Rashad Selim; Adel Abidin; Wafaa Bilal; Paul Chan; Marc Bijl; Nedim Kufi; Mohamed Abdulla; Peter Kennard; Cat Piction Phillips; Art and the Geopolitical: Re-familiarizing the War on Terror; Open Shutters Project; Atlas; Alessandro Petti; sharif Waked; Rula Halawani; Taysir Batniji; Samira Badran; Jawad al Malhi; Raeda Saadeh; Shadi al Zaqzouq; Tina Sherwell; Yael Bartana; Pavel Wolberg; Ruchama Marton; Roee Rosen; Eyal Weizman; Nadje Sadig al Ali; Alessandro Petti; Dr. Khaled Hroub; Dr. Nurhan Abujidi; Gate 48' Rose Tzalmona;