Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East

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Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East

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Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa. It offers historical contexts for discussions that have become increasingly urgent in recent years—the role of culture in a time of conflict and globalisation—and an in-depth critique of the state of cultural institutions in an age of political upheaval, social unrest, exuberant cultural activity, ascendant neoliberal forms of privatisation, social activism and regional uncertainty.

Based on collective input from numerous contributors and interlocutors, this volume brings together internationally-renowned academics, critics, activists, filmmakers, artists and other independent cultural practitioners to consider how new infrastructures and institutions can effectively emerge within such fraught and dynamic contexts

14 black and white and 91 colour illustrations

Softcover

430 pages

Dimensions: height 23 x width 16 cm

ISBN: 9783956792465

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Published November 2016

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Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University). He is currently affiliated with several research projects exploring the politics of global contemporary art practices; digital media and image production; knowledge production and visual culture; and how cultural practices relate to migration and human rights across the Global South. In 2019, he received an AHRC Network+ award (in his capacity as a co-investigator) to develop research on disability education and visual culture in the West Bank and Lebanon.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Sternberg Press is a Berlin-based publishing house of art, cultural criticism, creative nonfiction and literary and experimental fiction. Founded by Caroline Schneider in New York in 1999, it aims to support both new and established writers and nourish lasting editorial relationships. The press is committed to publishing books with an interdisciplinary focus on contemporary visual culture and related critical discourse.

Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa (Birmingham City University). He is currently affiliated with several research projects exploring the politics of global contemporary art practices; digital media and image production; knowledge production and visual culture; and how cultural practices relate to migration and human rights across the Global South. In 2019, he received an AHRC Network+ award (in his capacity as a co-investigator) to develop research on disability education and visual culture in the West Bank and Lebanon.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Sternberg Press is a Berlin-based publishing house of art, cultural criticism, creative nonfiction and literary and experimental fiction. Founded by Caroline Schneider in New York in 1999, it aims to support both new and established writers and nourish lasting editorial relationships. The press is committed to publishing books with an interdisciplinary focus on contemporary visual culture and related critical discourse.

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