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Not a Collection of Cool Stuff: On The Bidoun Library

27 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, 0 Comments

“The thing is, the library is not a collection of the coolest or best art books coming out of the Middle East—although we may possess many of them—it is in fact a material critique of cultural production and the discourses that presuppose such books…They are no longer just the transparent envelopes for discourse, they are objects—and as objects are subject to the pressures and incentives of material production and a wide range of material objectives; economic, historical and political.” —Babak Radboy (Bidoun Library)

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Memorandum

28 Jul 2011, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments

Memorandum

Excerpted from Memorandum, an artist’s project by Greg Staats (2001) reprinted in “Performing Politics”: “It has been brought to our attention that the number of dogs on Indian Reserves has been increasing at a rate far beyond the capacity of this Department or the Indians to administer them.”

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Burn the Archives 01: Lee Maracle

14 Jul 2011, Posted in Blog, News, 0 Comments

Burn the Archives 01: Lee Maracle

I’m drawn to this short piece by Lee Maracle from 1992 because it highlights some of the key criticisms of the term postcolonial. Perhaps the most problematic implications of the term itself stem from the fact that it implies colonization is a…

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Announcing FUSEblog Series: Burn the Archives!

14 Jul 2011, Posted in Blog, News, 0 Comments

Announcing FUSEblog Series: Burn the Archives!

Welcome to the new FUSE blog series featuring material from our archives! Over the coming months, we’ll be rolling out posts that consider the political relevance and aesthetic import of historical articles and projects from FUSE.

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