Title: Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East (Ibraaz Series)
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1784534110
ISBN 13: 9781784534110
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good

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Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial point: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, is also concerned with determining the future. This point has gained urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where the archive has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political contestation.Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists from North Africa and the Middle East―including Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Jananne Al Ani, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mariam Ghani, Zineb Sedira, and Akram Zaatari―are utilizing and disrupting the function of the archive and, in so doing, are also highlighting a systemic and perhaps irrevocable crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region.

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Anthony Downey is an academic, writer and editor. Recent and upcoming publications include Art and Politics Now (2014); Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2014); The Future of a Promise: Contemporary Art from the Arab World (2011), and Mirrors for Princes: Both Sides of the Tongue (2015). He is currently researching Zones of Indistinction: Visual Cultures, Global Media and Late Modernity (forthcoming, 2016).

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