Khalil Rabah

Khalil Rabah

ISBN 10: 3775754059 / ISBN 13: 9783775754057

Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag Feb 2023, 2023

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Neuware -How do cultural institutions and artists respond to long-standing states of crises and international emergencies It is with these questions in mind that Palestinian artist Khalil Rabah's artistic practice investigates the future of visual arts production. Exploring the relationships between historically sanctioned and experimental exhibition settings, fictional and documentary-narratives, and the histories of displacement, his methods not only propose but produce speculative institutions.As the artist's first major monograph, Falling Forward / Works (1995-2025) presents a comprehensive selection of exhibition materials, previously unseen archival documents, and detailed background notes on how Rabah's methods relate to broader themes in his work. The volume also introduces new critical writing from curators, authors, and researchers on the interrelated subjects of anticipatory aesthetics, subterfuge and fugitive acts, mimicry and performativity, knowledge production, archival technologies and, crucially, the politics of humor.KHALIL RABAH (\*1961, Jerusalem) studied fine arts and architecture at the University of Texas. The work of this conceptual artist is rooted in issues of identity, displacement and politics. Characteristic of Rabah's working method is the adaptation of institutional means of representation. In 2003, he established the fictional Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind. Designed as an ongoing project, the museum finds new forms of presentation, depending on the exhibition situation and location. He lives and works in Ramallah.Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the series editor for Research/Practice and sits on the editorial boards of Third Text, Digital War, and Memory, Mind & Media. 548 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Khalil Rabah
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Feb 2023
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775754059
• ISBN 13: 9783775754057
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 242W x 176H x 50D millimeters 242 millimeters width by 176 millimeters height by 50 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1584 grams

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Synopsis

Three decades of spatial interventions from an artist interrogating the museum setting

This is the first comprehensive monograph for Palestinian artist Khalil Rabah (born 1961), whose architecturally informed work explores the relationship between experimental and historically sanctioned exhibition spaces. In considering the future of visual arts, his methods propose speculative alternatives to existing institutions.