Manual for Treason

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Manual for Treason

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Playing on eclectic parallels and contrasts between the literary sense of the word ‘plot’ and Sharjah Biennial 10’s overarching themes, Manual for Treason is a guest-edited series of seven books commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation. In this series, bilingual writers, translators, legal scholars, curators, art historians, critics, filmmakers, artists and theorists were invited to guest edit their version of the manual, as an eloquent suggestion of conspiracy, in one or more of the languages they possess in addition to English.

Edited by Omar Berrada, Érik Bullot, Başak Ertür, Angela Harutyunyan, Aras Özgun, Maha Maamoun, Haytham El-Wardany, Immanual Pourpre, Ashkan Sepahvand and Murtaza Vali

Softcover

English, Urdu and Bengali

125 pages

Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.5 x 2 cm

Publisher: Sharjah Art Foundation

Published in 2011

Country of publication: United Arab Emirates

Weight: 0.11 kg

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BANI ABIDI (*1971, Karachi) studied visual art in Lahore and Chicago. Encompassing video, photography and performance, Abidi’s practice draws on everyday as well as historical events to explore issues of nationalism and state power. Solo shows have taken place at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Gropius Bau, Berlin, amongst others; group shows include the 8th Berlin Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, New York, documenta 13, Kassel. Abidi lives and works between Berlin and Karachi.

Winner of the winter 2010 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship, Murtaza Vali is a Contributing Editor at ArtAsiaPacific and writes for ArtReview, Art India and Bidoun. Vali has also penned monographic essays on artists such as Bani Abidi, Siah Armajani, Emily Jacir and Reena Saini Kallat.

Murtaza Vali ( lives and works in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and Brooklyn, United States) is critic, curator, and art historian. His ongoing research interests include materialist art histories, ex- centric minimalisms, ghosts and other figures of liminal sibjectivities and repressed histories, the weight of colour and contemprorary art of Indian Ocean littoral.

Sharjah Art Foundation hosts numerous activities and events throughout the year, from exhibitions featuring the work of Arab and international artists, live music and performances to film screenings and artist talks as well as extensive art education programmes for children, adults and families. Additionally, the Foundation has over the years published a range of books that include Sharjah Biennial and exhibition catalogues, books about the March Meetings and limited-edition artists' publications.

BANI ABIDI (*1971, Karachi) studied visual art in Lahore and Chicago. Encompassing video, photography and performance, Abidi’s practice draws on everyday as well as historical events to explore issues of nationalism and state power. Solo shows have taken place at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Gropius Bau, Berlin, amongst others; group shows include the 8th Berlin Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, New York, documenta 13, Kassel. Abidi lives and works between Berlin and Karachi.

Winner of the winter 2010 Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellowship, Murtaza Vali is a Contributing Editor at ArtAsiaPacific and writes for ArtReview, Art India and Bidoun. Vali has also penned monographic essays on artists such as Bani Abidi, Siah Armajani, Emily Jacir and Reena Saini Kallat.

Murtaza Vali ( lives and works in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and Brooklyn, United States) is critic, curator, and art historian. His ongoing research interests include materialist art histories, ex- centric minimalisms, ghosts and other figures of liminal sibjectivities and repressed histories, the weight of colour and contemprorary art of Indian Ocean littoral.

Sharjah Art Foundation hosts numerous activities and events throughout the year, from exhibitions featuring the work of Arab and international artists, live music and performances to film screenings and artist talks as well as extensive art education programmes for children, adults and families. Additionally, the Foundation has over the years published a range of books that include Sharjah Biennial and exhibition catalogues, books about the March Meetings and limited-edition artists' publications.

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