Featured Artist Collective: Slavs and Tatars Slavs and Tatars Nations (2009) In this gallery, which features artist collective Slavs and Tatars, we look closely at the works’ capacity to embody or enact reality by developing notions of performativity in language and text-based artwork. This edition of the ArteEast Gallery follows the Winter 2012 theme which […]
Working primarily with images and video, artist Bouchra Khalili creates installation pieces which take on issues of individual subjectivity in relation to a geographic context. Her work opens up narratives onto the flat topography of maps. Placed in the context of the gallery, the works invite the viewer to engage with these projected spaces through […]
“Okay, the stadium went to Afghanistan. So, if the stadium was given to Afghanistan, then when the Afghanis are playing in it, where are they?” – Nida Ghouse.(1) In a country where the South Asian community makes up close to 50% of the population, it is unsurprising that cricket would be among the most popular […]
1. Memoir(s) At this moment, the only desert storms I can recall are blowing through my heart. So I find that the more I analyze, understand and narrate them as a writer, and perform them solo or with groups as a social choreographer, the more I gather mastery of the wind and determine its direction. […]
Barbad Golshiri is an artist, curator, and critic who was born and lives in Tehran. He is also translator and editor of Samuel Beckett’s works in Persian. Some of his participations include: Elephant in the Dark, curated by Amirali Ghasemi, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2012; Cura; The Rise and Fall of Aplasticism curated by […]
MODERNITY, MONOBROWS and MONOTHEISM: These are just a few of the concerns of Slavs and Tatars, a collective dedicated to examining the region “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China,” as they so neatly put it. Founded in 2006 and consisting of an American, a Belgian, a Pole, […]
Excerpt from an interview by Ingrid Chu first published in fillip #8, 2008 (Full interview accessible here). The interview coincides with the Pantheon of Broken Men and Women, a special poster insert by Slavs and Tatars that took place over e-mail exchange after a preliminary discussion on Friday, January 24, 2008 between the author and members of the […]
Featured artists Khalil Rabah, Mona Hatoum, Tarek Al Ghoussein and Ayman Baalbaki offer us an opportunity to explore issues surrounding collective trauma that emanate from both historical concerns and the artists’ lived reality. Anchored not in narrative but in a subjective and bodily engagement, these artworks produce an affective response that is not rooted in […]
Haig Aivazian is an artist, curator and writer born in Lebanon and currently based in New York City. He has a BFA from Concordia University in Montréal Canada and an MFA from Northwestern University in Chicago, USA. He also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. He has been involved in a number […]
The Summer 2012 launch of Shahadat is part of ArtEast’s Exploring Literature in Translation Series and features two translated excerpts of Sahar Mandour’s novel 32. Sahar Mandour is a highly acclaimed Lebanese novelist and both her novels, 32 and Hobb Beiruti, have received positive critical reviews internationally. In each of these excerpts, Rayya Badran has […]