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)
Continue Reading...Contemporaneous Archaeologies
18 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, 0 Comments
Film curation and exhibition necessarily become essayistic practices, critical programs in poetic dialogue with social reality. While history offers innumerable instances in which the imperialist impulse of commercial film distribution and exhibition has used the developing world as grist for its mill… —Aliza Ma
Continue Reading...Any Celebration is Premature
11 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, 0 Comments
A striking aspect of the Egyptian revolution is the frenzy of creative response and accelerated cultural production that has gripped Cairo and other parts of the country. The creativity and sense of urgency expressed in the streets continue on as competing groups give voice to their visions for the country’s future. —Joseph Banh
Continue Reading...The Form of Struggle
04 Nov 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
By embodying social antagonism within urban space, riots such as the Battle of the Camel often fall prey to the accusation of destructiveness, a claim that overlooks the far more destructive role played by capital within social relations on an ongoing basis. Riots shift the power to disrupt urban space from capital and the state to the riot’s collective body. —Olive McKeon
Continue Reading...Anything But Its Own Uncovering
28 Oct 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
“I think institutions perform their independence in order to survive and be able to receive the little financial support that is available. I think that as an institution there is a certain performativity of independence that calls for constant posing as the alternative to the official discourse. But with ACAF, on a working level, we’ve tried to avoid that as much as we can.” —Bassam el Baroni (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum)
Continue Reading...No Reading After the Internet
28 Oct 2011, Posted in Blog, 0 Comments
No Reading After the Internet has invited FUSE to co-present their November salon, which will feature research material from FUSE’s upcoming issue. Through group reading and discussion, we will consider the current “Occupy” movement in relation to colonial dynamics in Canada.
November 2 2011, 7PM @ LIFT (1137 Dupont, Toronto)
34-4/States of Postcoloniality/EGYPT
30 Sep 2011, Posted in Blog, News, 0 Comments
Contributors: Nahed Mansour and Bassam El Baroni (ACAF); Denise Ryner and Babak Radboy (Bidoun Library); Damon Kowarsky; Olive McKeon; Joseph Banh, Moataz Nasreldin (Darb 1718), Mia Jankowicz (CIC) and William Wells (Townhouse); Themba Lewis; Aliza Ma, Rasha Salti and Gabe Klinger; Anna Feigenbaum; Francisco-Fernando Granados; Leila Timmins.
Continue Reading...34-4/Editorial
30 Sep 2011, Posted in Articles, 0 Comments
To describe our state as postcolonial is not to say that colonialism is over, a thing of the past, but instead to insist on a certain historical continuity. It is a gesture against willful forgetting, a taking account of particular lineages of subjugation in order to underscore the importance of resistance, sovereignty and solidarity in the present. It acknowledges an extended age of empire…
Continue Reading...Memorandum
28 Jul 2011, Posted in Artist Projects, 0 Comments
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.”
Continue Reading...Ritual Practices
26 Jul 2011, Posted in Articles, Featured, 0 Comments
Let’s say I love you from afar, so I visit a magician who places our photographs in a bowl with (perhaps) pieces of paper with out names written on them and several spoonfuls of honey. Candles are lit, words are said, and it is done. You and I are together in a bowl, cemented with sticky sweetness. At the level of appearance, we are together, even if events in the world have yet to catch up with events in the bowl…
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