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Dissonant Archives

By Anthony Downey

Dissonant Archives

By Anthony Downey

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The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial point: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, can also determine 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 the Middle East and North Africa - 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, highlighting a systemic, perhaps irrevocable, crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region. In exploring and producing archives, be they alternative, interrogative or fictional, these artists are not simply questioning the authenticity, authority or authorship of the archive; rather, they are unlocking its regenerative, radical potential. The result provides essential insights into the nexus between art and politics in the contemporary Middle East.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2015-07-16
Publication Date:
2015-05-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784534110
ISBN13:
9781784534110
Weight:
1046 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
231 cm
Thickness:
48 cm
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