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Collected interviews from a prominent Lebanese theater artist A leading voice in Lebanon's cultural diaspora, acclaimed stage actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué (born 1967) produces work that addresses the contested memory of historical events such as the Lebanese civil war, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Revolution. This volume presents his collected interviews.
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Martyr posters are more than obituary images – they can act as visual politics. Focusing on Rabih Mroué's play How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (2007), Agnes Rameder analyses how contemporary artists question and appropriate Lebanese martyr posters. By linking the posters from the Wars in Lebanon (1975-1990) to contemporary posters, she shows that these images continue to the present day, that martyrs are still created and that deaths, such as those who were killed in the explosion on 4 August 2020, are still visually remembered. This study does not focus on how such pictures are perceived by a Western audience but delves into the use and abuse of martyr posters that were intended to be shown to the Lebanese.
MISperformance: essays in shifting perspectives is a collection of essays that address a spectrum of cultural, organizational, technological, ecological, political and daily performances by focusing on the causes and consequences of a misfire, misconception, misrecognition, misnaming, misfitting etc. Aspects and impacts of MISperformance that are susceptible to provoking disturbances, distortions, alternations, abortions, if not disasters within diverse spheres of private and social life, including aesthetic and political practices, are investigated in the light of their potentially both regressive, even tragic outcome, and resistant, even transgressive efficacy, as also the absence or abandonment of any reason in or for performance.
Der Boden ist schneebedeckt, der Horizont eine dunkle Gebirgslinie, tiefhängende milchige Wolken verdecken den Himmel. Im Vordergrund erhebt sich eine seltsam unförmige Masse in leuchtenden Farben – rot, blau und gelb. In weniger als einer Minute materialisiert sich eine aufblasbare Hüpfburg, wie man sie oft auf Kinderspielplätzen, Jahrmärkten und Dorffesten sieht. Unbeholfen ragen diese Luftschlösser in ihrer einer Fata Morgana ähnlichen Form von Doppelrutschen, Drachenburgen, Fußballfeldern verloren aus bizarren Szenerien heraus, die Stefano Cerio mit Aquila erschaffen hat. Aufgenommen zu unterschiedlichen Jahreszeiten vor der eindrucksvollen Kulisse der Abruzzen, nicht weit entfernt von L’ Aquila, ist eine Serie von großer Melancholie entstanden.
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” on knotty and provocative issues about art. This fifth and final volume in the series focuses on the identity, nature, and future of visual studies, discussing critical questions about its history, objects, and methods. The contributors question the canon of literature of visual studies and the place of visual studies with relation to theories of vision, visuality, epistemology, politics, and art history, giving voice to a variety of ...
This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.