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What to Do With the Mobility Fetish: Notes for Future Artist Residencies
by Aneta Szyłak
"There was a time when we weren’t taking artist-in-residence programs seriously enough. But the political map of the world is changing; as funding for art shifts, we find ourselves in a moment where rethinking residencies is necessary. Museums, galleries and public spaces all underwent a significant reformulation of their concepts, histories, limitations and potentialities. Now is the time for critical engagement with residencies."
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All The Names
By Shuruq Harb
As a group of individual names dispersed across the city, street names make up an eclectic registry. With repetitive utterances and regular use, they are entrenched in the everyday. Names of once iconic figures become mere references to our personal memories & associations.
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Avenue Patrice Lumumba
By Guy Tillim
In many African cities, there are streets, avenues and squares named after Patrice Lumumba, the first elected President of Congo after it gained its independence from Belgium in 1960. My photographs of these streets and avenues are not collapsed histories of post-colonial African states or a meditation on aspects of late-modernist colonial structures, but a walk through avenues of dreams.
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InVisible Cities
By Barney Kulok
"In vain, great-hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the arcades' curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past." Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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Landscapes of Code
By Katrina Sluis
As the city begins to resemble the web, tagging and other technologies of inscription hold the promise that we can append the physical world with digital signposts, producing new territories and subjectivities which might destabilise older established cartographies. When our locations determine our encounter with data, the key question becomes; whose memories, which variables, what keywords will direct us?
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On Street Names and 'De Facto Monuments': Guy Tillim’s Avenue Patrice Lumumba
By Leora Maltz-Leca
As Tillim finds and refinds Lumumba’s ghost in the thoroughfares named for him, his photographic essay ‘Avenue Patrice Lumumba’ draws together these dispersed avenues into a spectral cartography of liberation, uniting a network of scattered locales through their identification with this iconic figure. Such an imaginary cartography – a route linked by a name – highlights how naming, as Paul Carter has eloquently argued, is bound up with the writing of the landscape into history.
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Walking a 'Bill'
By Leah Gordon
I was hoping that this particular spell, of a 'BILL' drawn on the streets of Old Town in Stockholm, would bring me a little magic and lead me to some secret signs that I could steal away. As a magician one must prepare the conditions within which magic can best happen, and this is where ritual and ceremony begin. In art, as in religion, one has to make the conditions for magic more conducive. Bill Drummond's (and Richard Long's) walks are rituals to let magic pass through the membrane.
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Invisible Cities: Artwork by Barney Kulok
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Silent Continent
Anne Barlow
Of course Antarctica is not completely silent, or monochrome, but it was especially within those moments of silence that the environment felt closest to a neutral zone, unfettered by sound as an indicator of cultural context. There was no music, language, sounds of a city, or any visual references to borders; one could imagine that this was a truly apolitical space. This utopian image of Antarctica is maintained in the popular psyche as the seventh continent at the end of the world, owned by no-one. The reality of both the race to the pole1, and the more recent Antarctic Treaty2 is more complex, and when encountering the research stations of countries including the Ukraine, United Kingdom and Argentina, the presence of "nationality" and related notions of territory become more transparent.
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(Re)Tuning Baghdad
Regine Basha
Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing archive of live video performances, audio clips and historical information on Iraqi Jewish musicians and the music scene that was displaced from Baghdad in the late 1940s. As an alternative to making a linear documentary film, the website features four video chapters along with relevant audio and textual links to the complex histories that interweave this community with the history of the region and to the Iraqi Maqam. The aim is to continue to build this virtual home for a music scene divided by political borders.
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An Endless Quick Nightmare
Tony Chakar
Tony Chakar utilizes various images and text from religious and literature sources and combines them to present a personal narrative. His visual manifestation is influenced by the conditions in which he is experiencing in Beirut, his home city.
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Putting a Puzzle Together: An interview with Defne Ayas on her curatorial research trip to Armenia
Defne Ayas
Defne Ayas discusses her recent curatorial trip and outlines the challenges and difficulties of engaging with highly sensitized issues characterized by the multi-layered histories within the former Ottoman landscape and highly nationalized contexts. Regional issues, relationship between cultures and regional art production become the central focus of her undertaking.
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Silence is Sexy
Micah Silver
Micah Silver weaves through the history of music and gives us a well informed chronicle of silence in sound-based practices. He also questions the political dimension of silence and the act of silencing in popular music, which pacifies the audience in order to convey their message
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