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Nature is Our Body: Editorial Note
Nature is Our Body: Editorial Note

Spring 2016 | ArteZine

The spring issue of ArteZine, titled Nature is Our Body, sets on to explore a series of artistic and cultural practices from Turkey and the Middle East that critically engage with the Earth's resilience in regenerating our relationship with its vital resources, such as land, water, air, plants, food and ecosystems.

The Woman’s Tent: Plot for an Imaginary Exhibition
The Woman’s Tent: Plot for an Imaginary Exhibition

Spring 2016 | ArteZine

“The Woman’s Tent” is a fictitious exhibition featuring two historic works by artist Nil Yalter ― Nomad’s Tent (Topak Ev/La Yourte): A Study of Private, Public, and Feminine Spaces (1973) and Shaman (1979) – that revolves around the shamanic cultures of Anatolia. Central to this curatorial imaginary are the local traditions and rituals dating back […]

And Yet My Mask is Powerful
And Yet My Mask is Powerful

Spring 2016 | ArteZine

We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the ones who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear* The clearing. We find ourselves in the wreck, once again and then again. A perpetual crisis that leaves us […]

Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez
Christian Palestinian Archive: A Project by Dor Guez

Spring 2016 | Gallery

During the summer of 2014 I traveled to Israel for six weeks under the auspices of an Artport curatorial residency to work with artist and historian Dor Guez. It was a rather open-ended visit as far as a concrete collaboration was concerned. We had met before, both in New York and Israel, and decided we […]

Reimagining Nature as Culture: Expanding the boundaries of making and thinking of art in the Anthropocene
Reimagining Nature as Culture: Expanding the boundaries of making and thinking of art in the Anthropocene

Spring 2016 | ArteZine

“Perhaps, the moon landing was one of the most demoralizing events in history” Robert Smithson “We are being exposed to a catastrophe of meaning. Let’s not hurry to hide this exposure under pink, blue, red or black silks. Let us remain exposed, and let us think about what is happening to us: Let us think […]

Plant to Harvest Solidarity and Resilience
Plant to Harvest Solidarity and Resilience

Spring 2016 | ArteZine

What are some novel ways of understanding the Earth along with soil, water, air and ecosystems surrounding us in the age of climate change? How do we as artists, researchers and cultural programmers connect with indigenous knowledge in the contemporary context? How does our engagement with indigenous knowledge help us grasp such a global phenomena […]

“Freedom is a State of Mind” – Editorial Note
“Freedom is a State of Mind” – Editorial Note

Fall 2015 | ArteZine

Can inner liberty wait for institutions, states and authoritarian structures? In her letter to an editor friend Fawwaz Traboulasi – initially meant to be an essay on feminism for the Zawaya magazine’s Arab Women issue – Etel Adnan describes different forms of freedom.

How to tell of peace to a living dove?
How to tell of peace to a living dove?

Fall 2015 | ArteZine

Frankly, dear little dove, you and I should have met well before our unrecognized lives turned into hell, not now! Not restrained by the evil frame of this video, in slight showers every now and then, in the sunshine afterwards, when rainbows appeared among the flocks of white clouds like your feathers, without the war evoking the peace and the peace evoking the war.

Freedom As A State Of Mind
Freedom As A State Of Mind

Fall 2015 | ArteZine

Artist Simone Fattal responds to the issue’s title Freedom is a State of Mind, an Etel Adnan quote that lends itself to the issue’s title, with collages from a decade ago. Simone’s collages weaved together here with her co-contributor Etel’s poems from the book titled The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems (1985) and presented online in such a context for the first time provide a multilayered visual and literary reading of brief moments of escapes in everyday life.

Act of Excision
Act of Excision

Fall 2015 | ArteZine

With this hope in my mind, I look at the ghostly emptiness in the sea in Khaled Barker’s Untitled Images – Repetitive Patterns (2015), presented publicly for the first time here in Act of Excision. The absence of the bodies in Khaled’s most recent images, produced as a response to this issue’s theme and that expand on his 2014 Untitled Images series, is meaningful. It refers to turning a blind eye to something that exists ‘far away’ and that these bodies are no longer alive, calling to mind Susan Sontag’s seminal book Regarding the Pain of Others (2014)

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