Dissonant Archives
Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East
ed. by Anthony Downey ; with texts by Mariam Ghani, Rona Sela, Tom Holert ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Mariam Ghani, Rona Sela, Tom Holert, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Anthony Downey

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015

Scope

470 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781784534110

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Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists from the Middle East and North Africa - including Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Jananne Al Ani - are utilizing and disrupting the function of the archive and, in so doing, highlighting a systemic, perhaps irrevocable, crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region. In exploring and producing archives, be they alternative, interrogative or fictional, these artists are not simply questioning the authenticity, authority or authorship of the archive; rather, they are unlocking its regenerative, radical potential.

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Keywords

new media

Location

Cabinet 29 - 2: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties

Remarks

Incl. Index.