Dissonant Archives

[IMPORTED BOOKS][PRE-ORDER] The 'archive' is often viewed as a collection of historical documents that records and orders information about people, places and events.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. Format: Paperback |304 pages Publication Date: 30-August-2015 Penulis: Anthony Downey ISBN10: 1784534110 ISBN13: 9781784534110 *Lama Pengiriman: 15-45 Hari **Harga Sudah Termasuk Biaya Pajak Barang Impor Kunjungi IG,FB,Line Kami IG: @Kerajaanbukuonline FP: @Kerajaanbukuonline Line: @kerajaanbuku