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ArteEast, a New York-based international nonprofit organization established in 2003, supports and promotes artists from the Middle East and its diasporas by raising awareness of their most significant and groundbreaking work through public events, exhibitions, screenings, a biennial film festival, a dynamic online gallery and a resource-rich website.
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Across Histories Artist Talk Series: Segregated Spaces — On Progress with Murtaza Vali
CAMP’s Wharfage Project: Recasting the Indian Ocean as a Space of Contact and Exchange
November 18, 2009
Curated by Lauren Pearson, Across Histories is a free monthly series centered on developing an ongoing critical discussion of artistic practices in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and their diasporas. Debuted at the Elizabeth Foundation Gallery in Manhattan in September 2008 and now housed at Brooklyn's Cabinet Magazine Space, Across Histories provides a compelling platform for artists, designers, curators and art critics to present and discuss their work, oeuvres, historical moments, theories, writings and exhibitions that have had the most impact on their professional practices.
This month, the series will host art critic and historian Murtaza Vali.
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"Call Me Anar" (Pomegranate)
November 19, 2009
Please join ArteEast for a performance-based art act by Aphrodite Désirée Navab, co-sponsored by Soho20 Chelsea and Persian Arts Festival.
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ArteEast is pleased to present the launch of its new touring program:
“Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran”
Curated by James Neil, Parallax Media UK & Suzy Gillett, Institut
Français UK
A rare opportunity to watch and actively engage with some of the most exciting and innovative films to emerge from the region in the past four decades, especially those by female directors. – James Neil, curator
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Shahadat: a Shorts Forum
Shahadat is a monthly online series designed to provide a platform for experimentation and promotion of short form writing on the web. These stories, vignettes, reflections and chronicles, written by young or underexposed writers from the Middle East and North Africa, are published here in translation and the original.
This month: An Excerpt from A Place on Your Face By Sema Kaygusuz
We would like to thank Yeşim Vesper for her invaluable support in publishing this piece.
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This month in ArteNews:
ArteEast is very excited to present our new issue of ArteEast Online
The Art of Engagement
Guest Editor: Diana Allan
In the wake of 9/11 and the US occupation of Iraq, there is a growing awareness of the need for critical engagement within the art world and academia. This resurgent interest in an art of political engagement that seeks to extend the boundaries of an increasingly privatized art world raises questions about the role that politics should play in art, and the difficulties of navigating between an elitist art world and the supposed populism of activist intentions. This issue of ArteEast explores the limits and possibilities of publicly engaged art and participatory practice in the Middle East from a variety of perspectives and brings together the work of practiced-based artists working in film, photography and video installation with those working in the fields of architecture, media activism, and as museum curators. With contributions by Azra Aksamija, Mirjam Shatanawi, Oraib Toukan, Sadia Shirazi, Eric Gottesman, Yasmine Sabbagh, and Eyal Eithcowich.
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The Virtual Gallery
Featured in this edition of the Virtual Gallery, ArteEast's major visual arts exhibition - Tarjama/Translation - maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as its main thematic or providing a panoramic, and thus fleeting, exposure to “Middle Eastern art,” Tarjama/Translation focuses on the common yet complex theme of cultural, artistic and critical translation.
This Virtual Gallery not only highlights work from Tarjama/Translation, but also offers exclusive insights into the entire exhibition process, from curatorial vision to installation. The Virtual Gallery features video interviews with artists Ersa Ersen, Wael Shawky, Lara Baladi, curator Leeza Ahmady, and critical essays by Elliott Colla and Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan. In addition, essays written by critics, curators and artists accompany the works available online.
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Events Around the World
Click here to learn about worldwide events pertaining to the Middle East and its diasporas.
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